Site Reliability Engineer Verified today
About the Role
You will design, build, and operate the ground and site network infrastructure that connects Apex facilities and mission operations across both commercial and secured environments. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone equally comfortable architecting a highly available Kubernetes platform and defining the security posture that keeps it compliant. You will be a primary technical owner, setting the standards that the rest of the team builds on.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build ground and site network infrastructure spanning commercial and secured or classified environments through the platform layer.
- Design, deploy, and scale highly available Kubernetes clusters that support workloads across multiple security and classification levels.
- Own the security posture of ground infrastructure, defining and enforcing controls, hardening, and compliance for sensitive government and commercial programs.
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Terragrunt, and similar tooling so that environments are repeatable, reviewable, and fast to stand up.
- Establish observability across the ground network, including monitoring, metrics, logging, and alerting, so issues are caught before they reach a mission.
- Design and run CI/CD pipelines and automation that streamline deployments and reduce manual, error-prone work.
- Act as a primary site reliability engineer for ground systems, driving uptime, incident response, and reliability standards on programs where downtime is not an option.
- Partner with security, mission operations, and program teams to translate requirements into infrastructure that is both compliant and operable.
- Set architectural standards and mentor other engineers, raising the bar for how ground infrastructure is built at Apex.
Requirements
- U.S. person as defined by U.S. export-control law (ITAR/EAR eligible).
- 5+ years of experience in site reliability, infrastructure, or network engineering, with meaningful experience in aerospace, defense, satellite, or mission-critical domains.
- Hands-on experience architecting and operating ground network or large-scale production network infrastructure.
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes and containers, including building and scaling high availability clusters in production.
- Strong networking fundamentals across routing, switching, segmentation, and secure network design.
- Proven experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automation, and observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
- Working knowledge of security and compliance for regulated or classified environments.
- Proficiency scripting and building tooling in Python, Go, or a comparable language.
Nice-to-Haves
- Active Top Secret or Top Secret/SCI clearance.
- Prior experience supporting classified or government space programs or standing up infrastructure across multiple classification levels.
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows and tools such as ArgoCD, and modern observability stacks including Mimir.
What We Offer
- Equity in Apex.
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for you and dependents, plus $100k life insurance.
- 15+ days vacation, growing to 20+ days annually, plus 10 paid holidays.
- 401(k) plan with 100% match on first 3%, 50% on next 2%.
- 8 weeks paid parental leave plus childcare reimbursement up to $350/day for work-related travel.
- Daily catered lunch and unlimited snacks.
- Monthly office socials, pickleball tournaments, run club, and family gatherings.
- Full equipment and setup for productivity.
- Playa Vista office with in-person collaboration and work-life flexibility.