Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Delta Defense is seeking a hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with strong expertise in Kubernetes and modern CI/CD practices. You will design, implement, and operate secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-native platforms that support multiple engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage production Kubernetes clusters, including workload scheduling, resource quotas, network policies, ingress/egress controls, and RBAC.
• Develop and maintain declarative deployment patterns using Helm, Kustomize, and Kubernetes operators.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps principles, including version-controlled changes, automated validation, and rollback strategies.
• Provision and manage infrastructure using tools such as Terraform or Crossplane, applying best practices for immutability, idempotency, and state management.
• Implement observability solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry; support service level indicators (SLIs), service level objectives (SLOs), and actionable alerting strategies.
• Conduct load testing and resilience validation to support performance tuning, failure analysis, and capacity planning.
• Support stateful workloads (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Kafka), including backup and restore considerations and performance implications.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response, contributing to root cause analysis and continuous reliability improvements.
• Document architecture, operational procedures, backup and recovery processes, and infrastructure lifecycle plans.

Requirements

• A high school diploma or equivalent is required.
• 2–5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles.
• Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production, including secure multi-tenant configurations.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and working with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Strong containerization experience, including image optimization and security practices.
• Solid Linux administration skills and systems troubleshooting experience.
• Proficiency in Python or similar scripting language for infrastructure automation.
• Practical experience with load testing and performance analysis.

Skills/Abilities And Education Requirements

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S.
• Working knowledge of networking, Kubernetes security, and deployment strategies (rolling, blue-green, or canary).
• Demonstrates the Core Values of Delta Defense, LLC.

Benefits

Salary range $85,000-100,000 based on experience. This role is also bonus-eligible for company incentive plan.

Pay

$85,000-100,000 based on experience.

Schedule

This position can be performed in our beautiful headquarters in West Bend, remotely, or on a hybrid schedule based on location.