Apex Space
Site Reliability Engineer
$155K–$195K
Los Angeles · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; meaningful portion in aerospace, defense, satellite, or another mission-critical domain.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must qualify as a U.S. Person or be able to obtain required U.S. export authorizations.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates secure, reliable ground and site network infrastructure supporting Apex facilities and mission operations.
What you'll do
- Build and operate network infrastructure and highly available Kubernetes clusters across commercial and secured environments.
- Own infrastructure security, compliance, infrastructure as code, observability, and CI/CD automation.
- Drive reliability standards, uptime, and incident response; partner with security and mission teams and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in site reliability, infrastructure, or network engineering, with meaningful experience in a mission-critical domain.
- Hands-on experience architecting and operating ground network or large-scale production network infrastructure; deep production Kubernetes expertise.
- Strong networking fundamentals and experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automation, and observability tooling.
- Working knowledge of security and compliance in regulated or classified environments; proficiency in Python, Go, or a comparable language.
Nice to have
- Active Top Secret or Top Secret/SCI clearance; experience supporting classified or government space programs.
- Familiarity with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD and observability stacks including Mimir.
Pay
$155K – $195K USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Go, ArgoCD
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