Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Valarian Technologies is a dual-use technology company building critical tools to safeguard the future in an era of evolving global security challenges. They are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own and evolve the foundational infrastructure layer behind ACRA, focusing on Kubernetes, networking, and operational reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, operate, and improve Kubernetes-based infrastructure for ACRA
• Own core infrastructure plumbing across networking, storage, workload scheduling, service communication, ingress, egress, DNS, certificates, and cluster-level security
• Operate and debug production Kubernetes environments across GCP, on-premise, bare-metal, sovereign cloud, air-gapped, and customer-managed deployments
• Work on multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, cluster networking, network policy, service mesh, and secure service-to-service communication
• Operate and evolve distributed storage systems, including storage classes, CSI drivers, capacity planning, replication, recovery, and failure handling
• Work with infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes, Linux, Cilium, eBPF, Istio, Rook Ceph, Terraform, Argo CD, GitOps, Helm, and related CNCF tooling
• Build infrastructure automation that improves repeatability, reliability, and operational safety
• Improve observability across infrastructure layers, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and operational runbooks
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues across networking, storage, Kubernetes, Linux, and application infrastructure
• Contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and production readiness
• Define infrastructure standards, operational boundaries, security controls, and deployment patterns across the platform
• Work closely with engineering teams to make services easier to deploy, operate, monitor, and debug
• Contribute to the long-term technical direction of the DevOps department and the infrastructure foundations of ACRA