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About the role
As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer on our Cloud Infrastructure Team, you’ll play a pivotal role in maintaining and scaling our ground segment infrastructure. You’ll collaborate across development, operations, and IT to ensure the integration, delivery, and reliability of services that support our space operations on Earth and in orbit.
What they're looking for
- Strong experience with public cloud infrastructure , ideally GCP
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes , architecture, deployment, ops, and resource optimization
- Demonstrated ability to design and build scalable, highly available systems
- Familiarity with Software Defined Networking (SDN) concepts and tools
- Experience implementing and maintaining observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, etc.)
- Proficiency in at least one backend language: Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, or Java
More about this role
Wanna join the adventure?
Loft Orbital is revolutionizing access to space by building reliable, shareable satellites that drastically reduce the time and complexity traditionally required to get to orbit. We operate satellites, fly customer payloads, and handle entire missions from end-to-end. We’re a close-knit team of space enthusiasts, software experts, and cutting-edge technologists, all working together to make space simple for our customers.
As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer on our Cloud Infrastructure Team, you’ll play a pivotal role in maintaining and scaling our ground segment infrastructure. You’ll collaborate across development, operations, and IT to ensure the integration, delivery, and reliability of services that support our space operations on Earth and in orbit.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and help build modern automated space infrastructure. This is not your typical SRE role, we apply DevOps principles even to spacecraft control. Yes, we call it SatDevOps , and we’ll train you to operate our satellites!
- Collaborate with developers and satellite operators to foster a strong SatDevOps culture .
- Design, implement,...
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