Ground Network Engineer

Apex Technology, Inc.•Los Angeles, CA

6d•$155,000 - $195,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Ground Network Engineer to join our Ground Software team. As a Ground Network Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the ground and site network infrastructure that connects Apex facilities and mission operations across both commercial and secured environments. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who is equally comfortable architecting a highly available Kubernetes platform, and defining the security posture that keeps it all compliant. You will be a primary technical owner, setting the standards that the rest of the team builds on.

Requirements

U.S. Person status (Citizen, Green Card holder, etc.)
5+ years of experience in site reliability, infrastructure, or network engineering, with a meaningful portion in aerospace, defense, satellite, or another mission-critical domain.
Hands-on experience architecting and operating ground network or large-scale production network infrastructure.
Deep expertise with Kubernetes and containers, including building and scaling high availability clusters in production.
Strong networking fundamentals across routing, switching, segmentation, and secure network design.
Proven experience with infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform and Terragrunt, and with CI/CD, automation, and observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
Working knowledge of security and compliance for regulated or classified environments, and the judgment to design a defensible security posture.
Proficiency scripting and building tooling in Python, Go, or a comparable language.

Nice To Haves

Active Top Secret or Top Secret/SCI clearance
Prior experience supporting classified or government space programs, or standing up infrastructure across multiple classification levels.
Familiarity with GitOps workflows and tools such as ArgoCD, and with modern observability stacks including Mimir.

Responsibilities

Architect and build ground and site network infrastructure spanning commercial and secured or classified environments through the platform layer.
Design, deploy, and scale highly available Kubernetes clusters that support workloads across multiple security and classification levels.
Own the security posture of ground infrastructure, defining and enforcing controls, hardening, and compliance for sensitive government and commercial programs.
Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Terragrunt, and similar tooling so that environments are repeatable, reviewable, and fast to stand up.
Establish observability across the ground network, including monitoring, metrics, logging, and alerting, so issues are caught before they reach a mission.
Design and run CI/CD pipelines and automation that streamline deployments and reduce manual, error-prone work.
Act as a primary site reliability engineer for ground systems, driving uptime, incident response, and reliability standards on programs where downtime is not an option.
Partner with security, mission operations, and program teams to translate requirements into infrastructure that is both compliant and operable.
Set architectural standards and mentor other engineers, raising the bar for how ground infrastructure is built at Apex.

Benefits

Equity in Apex
100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents
$100k life insurance at no cost
Comprehensive PTO package starting at 15 days vacation, growing to 20+ days annually
10 paid holidays
Competitive 401(k) plan with generous matching (100% match on first 3%, 50% on next 2%)
8 weeks paid parental leave
Childcare reimbursement up to $350/day for work-related travel
Daily catered lunch
Unlimited snacks
Monthly office socials, pickleball tournaments, run club, and gatherings
Dream desk setup and all the tools you need to be your most productive self