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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Lunar Outpost
- **Location:** Golden, CO, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $115,000.0 - $150,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, C++ (Programming Language), DevOps, Domain Name System (DNS), Github, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Uptime, Node.Js, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Load Balancing, Autoscaling, System Availability, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Deployment Automation, Performance Monitor, Terraform, Jenkins, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4eaea2b3d9374cbb

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related discipline
 * Kubernetes administration experience with elevated cluster access in production environments

 * Strong software development experience in one or more
programming languages (C++, Go, Node, Python, etc.)

 * Strong proficiency writing and maintaining Helm charts for complex, multi-component applications

 * Hands-on experience implementing canary deployments, blue-green deployments, and other progressive delivery patterns

 * Deep knowledge of Kubernetes infrastructure management: persistent volumes, DNS/networking, load balancers, and secrets management

 * Production experience with GitOps workflows and Flux CD

Preferred Qualifications:

 * Experience developing Go-based Kubernetes operators and controllers

 * Experience with AWS cloud services, particularly EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), Secrets Manager, VPC networking, IAM, and AWS Load Balancers

 * Experience with Karpenter for Kubernetes node autoscaling and cluster optimization

 * Experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation and observability platforms

 * Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, or CKS)

 * Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.)

 * Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CDK)

 * Experience implementing SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

## Description

* Design, develop, and maintain Kubernetes operators and controllers in Go to automate deployment, configuration, scaling, and lifecycle management of Stargate services
 * Own and manage Stargate production releases and deployment pipelines using GitOps practices
 * Drive operational excellence initiatives including metrics collection, log aggregation, uptime monitoring, KPI tracking, and SIM Integration
 * Maintain and achieve 99.99% (four nines) to 99.999% (five nines) uptime SLAs
 * Design, develop, and maintain Helm charts for Stargate and related infrastructure components
 * Implement and manage progressive deployment strategies including canary deployments and blue-green deployments
 * Oversee critical Kubernetes infrastructure including volume management, DNS configuration, load balancer provisioning, and secret monitoring/management
 * Manage and optimize Kubernetes deployments and related AWS services
 * Implement and maintain observability stack using OpenTelemetry for comprehensive monitoring and alerting