Silkline — DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer (In-Person, Seattle) Hey everyone — we're Silkline, a supply chain platform helping hardware companies manage quotes, orders, parts, and procurement workflows. We work with defense and aerospace customers, which means we're deep in FedRAMP territory. Our stack: • Pulumi (TypeScript) across 17+ stacks — EKS clusters, RDS Aurora Serverless v2, Auth0, WAF, Route53, S3, Datadog, the works • AWS GovCloud for all environments (dev, staging, prod) • EKS with Karpenter autoscaling, Fargate profiles, and self-hosted Trigger.dev for background jobs • Hasura GraphQL + PostgreSQL + Next.js 15 (App Router) • Datadog, Sentry, OpenTelemetry for observability • GitHub Actions CI/CD, Depot for container builds What we need help with: • Security hardening — Kubernetes network policies, pod security standards, secrets rotation, VPC endpoint tightening, internal networking for pod-to-pod comms • FedRAMP compliance — documenting controls, audit logging, building out the compliance posture on GovCloud • Infrastructure improvements — progressive deployments (canary/blue-green), GitOps adoption, cost optimization, disaster recovery planning, SLO/SLI definitions • Developer experience — smoothing out local dev, deployment automation, and CI/CD pipeline improvements We have a healthy backlog of infra/devops work and real problems to solve — this isn't a "maintain the status quo" role. The foundation is solid (Pulumi everywhere) but there's meaningful work to do as we scale and meet compliance requirements. If you're into Pulumi, AWS GovCloud, Kubernetes, and want to own infrastructure at a growing startup where your work directly impacts security and compliance outcomes — DM me. Looking for a full-time role.

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Hi — this looks really interesting. I’ve been working in AWS/Kubernetes environments for several years, including infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Pulumi), CI/CD, and security-focused deployments. The GovCloud + FedRAMP angle especially caught my attention — I’ve supported compliance-driven environments before and understand how much discipline and documentation it takes to get that right. I like that you’re not just looking for someone to maintain infrastructure, but to improve it — progressive deployments, GitOps, SLOs, cost optimization — that’s the kind of work I enjoy. Building systems that are secure, scalable, and cleanly automated is what I gravitate toward. Would love to learn more about the team, current pain points, and what “success” looks like in the first 6 months. Happy to chat. Yuri.