Responsibilities
- Own the architecture, reliability, and evolution of a cloud platform supporting mission-critical aviation systems
- Lead a small team while remaining deeply hands-on, building and operating infrastructure that must scale globally, maintain ~99.99% availability, and support safe, continuous delivery in a 24/7 environment
- Define and drive platform architecture, establishing best practices for infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes-based systems, deployment pipelines, and production operations
- Own reliability end-to-end, designing for failure, implementing observability (metrics, logging, tracing), and leading incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement efforts
- Manage and develop a small team of engineers—setting clear direction, establishing high standards, and creating the systems (metrics, processes, feedback loops) that enable teams to operate autonomously while maintaining a strong culture of reliability and ownership
Requirements
- Strong experience building and operating highly reliable cloud platforms (e.g., ~99.99% uptime)
- Deep expertise in AWS, with a strong understanding of multi-region and highly available architectures
- Proficiency with Kubernetes and containerized environments, along with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Helm)
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that support safe, frequent production releases
- Hands-on experience with progressive delivery techniques (e.g., canary deployments, safe rollback strategies)
- Strong understanding of observability and monitoring systems (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)
- Experience leading small teams (1-2+ years) while remaining hands-on
- Ability to own platform architecture end-to-end, from design through production operations
- Proven track record of driving reliability culture and production excellence across teams
- Experience operating and supporting 24/7 production systems
- Strong ability to lead design reviews and make architectural decisions in distributed environments
- Proficient in leveraging modern LLM tools to accelerate development workflows and enhance code quality
Nice to Have
- Experience with FedRAMP High environments or other regulated cloud systems is a plus
- Exposure to high-availability systems (e.g., “four nines” reliability) is a strong plus
Team
Team size: small. Structure: Lead Cloud Platform Engineer leading a small team of engineers
About the Civil Aviation Team
We are modernizing America’s air traffic control system on an accelerated timeline, tackling one of the world’s most complex real-time optimization challenges: safely coordinating tens of thousands of daily flights in a dynamic, safety-critical environment. Our team is building next-generation trajectory prediction and decision-support systems while preparing the airspace for emerging technologies like commercial space operations and advanced air mobility. This mission-critical work demands exceptional precision, resilience, and reliability to support the safety and efficiency of the national airspace.
How We Hire
We look at the interview process not as a screening or test, but rather as an opportunity to simulate what it would look like working together. We build the interview process around you.
Additional Information
- ASI works with export-controlled technology and restricted U.S. Government data
- Employment offers are contingent on ability to timely obtain all required authorizations for contemplated job duties
