Senior SRE — Space Ground Systems & Cloud Infra

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

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.