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Bluestaq builds secure data platforms for space missions, national defense, and healthcare. This Delivery Engineer role operates and evolves a Kubernetes-based platform on AWS, owning deployment automation, production health, and incident response for the Unified Data Library—a mission-critical data platform used across government and commercial space operations. What You'll Do • Deploy and maintain platform infrastructure on AWS EKS using Terraform and Terragrunt • Manage application rollouts via Argo CD and GitOps workflows; troubleshoot failed deployments and sync issues • Monitor production service health using Grafana dashboards, logs, and distributed traces; drive incidents to root cause • Perform live remediation in Kubernetes including pod restarts, rolling updates, scaling, node draining, and debugging stuck workloads • Improve observability coverage, alert quality, and runbooks based on operational incidents; participate in on-call rotation What You Need • 3–6 years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure roles • Production experience operating Kubernetes (EKS preferred): deployments, services, ingress, troubleshooting • 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 • Bachelor's degree plus 4+ years experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience) • U.S. citizenship required (clearance-eligible position) Nice to Have • 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) $95,000–$140,000 USD