Delivery Engineer - Cloud & Automation

Design and Integrate Systems for Mission Success. Bluestaq is hiring a Delivery Engineer to operate and evolve our Kubernetes-based platform on AWS. You will own the deployment automation, day-to-day production health, and incident response for the services that power the Unified Data Library (UDL) — a mission-critical data platform used across government and commercial space operations. This is a hands-on platform/SRE role. You will spend your time deploying infrastructure with Terraform/Terragrunt, debugging failed rollouts in EKS, chasing latency and error spikes through Grafana and traces, and remediating production issues in Kubernetes directly.

Responsibilities

Deploy and maintain UDL platform infrastructure on AWS EKS using Terraform and Terragrunt; Manage application rollouts via Argo CD / GitOps workflows; troubleshoot failed deployments, upgrades, and sync issues; Monitor production service health using Grafana dashboards, logs, and distributed traces; drive incidents to root cause; Perform live remediation in Kubernetes — pod restarts, rolling updates, scaling, node draining, debugging stuck workloads; Improve observability coverage, alert quality, and runbooks based on what you learn from real incidents; Automate repetitive operational toil using Python, Bash, or PowerShell; Partner with product, security, and engineering teams to ship changes safely into regulated environments; Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge across the platform team; Participate in an on-call rotation for production support; Use modern AI tools with judgment: integrating them into workflows where they're impactful, reviewing their outputs, and handling proprietary or sensitive data responsibly

Requirements

3–6 years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure roles; Production experience operating Kubernetes (deployments, services, ingress, troubleshooting failed pods/rollouts); Hands-on experience with Terraform provisioning AWS infrastructure; Strong AWS fundamentals (IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, S3, CloudWatch); Comfort working in Linux environments and writing automation in Python, Bash, or PowerShell; Experience with observability tooling — Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent log/metrics/trace platforms; Strong problem-solving skills and clear written/verbal communication, especially during incidents; Bachelor's degree plus 4+ years experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience); U.S. citizenship required (clearance-eligible position); On-site presence in Colorado Springs required; May require eligibility for TS/SCI security clearance

Nice to have

Terragrunt; Amazon EKS (preferred); Argo CD or other GitOps tooling at scale; Helm and/or Kustomize for Kubernetes manifest management; Kafka / Amazon MSK operations; Service mesh experience (Istio, Linkerd); Incident response leadership and postmortem authorship; AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or similar); Experience operating in regulated, security-conscious environments (FedRAMP, IL4/5, DoD); Active TS/SCI clearance

Benefits

TS/SCI clearance sponsorship for eligible candidates