Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Loft Orbital Solutions; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Loft Orbital Solutions in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure Team. You will work across development, operations and IT to ensure reliable ground segment infrastructure for our space missions, applying DevOps principles to spacecraft control.

The role focuses on building scalable cloud solutions, automating CI/CD and IaC, enhancing observability, and maintaining secure, high-availability systems in a hybrid cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with public cloud infrastructure, preferably GCP.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture deployment ops and resource optimization.
• 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).
• Proficiency in at least one backend language: Go Python Rust C/C or Java.
• DevOps practices: CI/CD, IaC, and automation.
• Proven track record in fast-paced high-growth technical environments.
• Strong networking knowledge (TCP/IP DNS routing switching firewalls VPNs).
• Deep experience in Systems Administration.
• Excellent problem-solving and proactive results-driven mindset.
• Strong communication in a multicultural cross-functional team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with developers, test engineers and satellite operators to foster a SatDevOps culture.
• Design and roll-out cloud solutions for testing and operations infrastructure to scale resources.
• Design, implement and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure in a hybrid cloud.
• Improve developer and test engineers' experience by building better tools and workflows.
• Lead automation of CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and deployment workflows for ground tests and space operations.
• Own and evolve observability stack (metrics, tracing, logs). Grafana stacks are a plus.
• Implement and advocate for best practices in reliability, fault tolerance and performance tuning.
• Identify, investigate and resolve system reliability issues with root-cause analyses.
• Partner with teams to design and operate Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions.
• Contribute to a collaborative, inclusive team culture with continuous learning.
• Initially handle cloud-network-hardware interface and assume IT responsibilities as needed.

Skills

Public cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Scalable systems

SDN

Observability stacks

Backend languages

DevOps practices

Fast-paced environments

Networking

Systems Administration

Communication

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

ArgoCD

FluxCD

Job description

About the Role:

Orbitworks 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. Orbitworks is a joint venture between Marlan Space (UAE-based) and Loft Orbital.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on our Infrastructure Team youll play a pivotal role in maintaining and scaling our ground segment infrastructure. Youll collaborate across development operations and IT to ensure the integration delivery and reliability of services that support our test infrastructure and 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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with developers test engineers and satellite operators to foster a strong SatDevOps culture.
• Design and roll-out cloud solutions for our testing and operations infrastructure. Find the best trade-offs between existing and additional cloud resources to scale and help Orbitworks achieve its mission.
• Design implement and maintain scalable reliable and secure infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Improve our developer and test engineers experience by building better tools workflows and environment to streamline
• Lead efforts to automate and optimize systems including CI/CD pipelines infrastructure provisioning (IaC) and deployment workflows for test on the ground and operations in space.
• Own and evolve our observability stack (metrics tracing logs) to improve usability and performance. Grafana-centric ecosystems are a plus.
• Implement and advocate for best practices in software reliability fault tolerance and performance tuning.
• Proactively identify investigate and resolve system reliability issues performing root cause analyses and implementing long-term fixes.
• Partner with teams to design and operate Software Defined Network (SDN) solutions.
• Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive team culture where respectful debate and continuous learning are celebrated.
• Initially handle and manage the link between cloud and network/software/hardware infrastructure. Assume I&T (Information technology) responsibilities as much as necessary to start with.

Must Haves:

• 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.
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience with DevOps practices: CI/CD infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation.
• Proven track record of working in fast-paced high-growth technical environments.
• Strong networking knowledge (TCP/IP DNS routing switching firewalls VPNs secure networks).
• Deep experience in Systems Administration.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently with a proactive results-driven mindset.
• Strong communication skills; thrives in a multicultural cross-functional team.

Nice to Have:

• Hands-on experience with GitOps frameworks (ArgoCD FluxCD).
• Interest or experience in FinOps and cost-optimized architectures