Delivery Engineer Cloud & Automation

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.

Why This Role Matters

Bluestaqdelivers integrated secure and reliable systems for customersoperatingin mission-critical and commercially demanding environments. Systems engineering is at the core of how we win deliver and scale. Without strong systems engineering execution our teamscantmove fast our systemscantstay secure and our customerscantrely on the technology that supports their operations.

This role is foundational to the team and the organization. Your work spans defined features environments and components within a team with growing independencewhich means your decisions your designs and your technical judgment have a direct and measurable effect on a culture of ownership and technical excellence and we need people who bring both depth and the right mindset to do it.

What Success Looks Like in the First 90 Days

• Comfortable deploying and updating services across our EKS environments via Terragrunt and Argo CD
• Independently triaging Grafana alerts and resolving common production issues
• Contributing improvements to runbooks dashboards or automation based on at least one real incident
• Participating in the on-call rotation

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy and maintain UDL platform infrastructure on AWS EKS usingTerraform and Terragrunt
• Manage application rollouts viaArgo CD / GitOpsworkflows; troubleshoot failed deployments upgrades and sync issues
• Monitor production service health usingGrafana 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

Qualifications & Skills

• 36 yearsin DevOps SRE Platform Engineering or Infrastructure roles
• Production experience operatingKubernetes(EKS preferred) deployments services ingress troubleshooting failed pods/rollouts
• Hands-on experience withTerraform(Terragrunt a plus) provisioning AWS infrastructure
• StrongAWSfundamentals (IAM VPC EC2 EKS S3 CloudWatch)
• Comfort working inLinuxenvironments and writing automation in Python Bash or PowerShell
• Experience withobservability tooling Grafana Prometheus OpenTelemetry or equivalent log/metrics/trace platforms
• Strong problem-solving skills and clear written/verbal communication especially during incidents
• Bachelors degree plus 4 years experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)

Preferred Experience

• 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)

Additional Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required (clearance-eligible position)
• On-site presence in Colorado Springs required
• May require eligibility for TS/SCI security clearance

Clearance Requirement:This position may require the ability to obtain a TS/SCI Clearance. To be eligible for a security clearance U.S. citizenship is required and an employee must agree to participate in a background screen and credit check. Eligibility for a TS/SCI Clearance will be assessed as part of the onboarding process or based on programmatic needs.

About Bluestaq
At Bluestaq we build secure data platforms that matter for space missions national defense healthcare systems and commercial innovation. Founded in 2018 weve become a leader in enterprise software and secure data management by staying focused on what counts: modern architecture operational excellence and mission impact.

Were engineers problem-solvers and builders who take the mission seriously but not ourselves. We automate the repeatable question the status quo and design systems that are as reliable as they are scalable. Whether were supporting space defense systems or healthcare advancements we build with the same principles: cloud-native solutions security by design and relentless simplicity.

Relocation:This position does not offer relocation. Candidates must live in the immediate area or relocate at their own expense.

Date the Position Closes: Applications will be accepted for 60 days beyond the posting date or until the position is filled whichever comes first.

Bluestaq is an Equal Opportunity prohibit unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees on the basis age 40 and over color disability gender identity genetic information military or veteran status national origin race religion sex sexual orientation or any other status protected by state or local law.

Bluestaq will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities and employees whose work requirements interfere with a religious belief unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to Bluestaq or a direct threat. Employees needing such accommodation are instructed to contact Human Resources immediately at .