Cloud Infrastructure Lead: Space-Grade DevOps & SRE

Loft Orbital; Occitanie; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health and life insurance

35 days PTO and flexible hours

Lunch vouchers

Relocation assistance to Toulouse

Cross-office travel

Job summary

Loft Orbital is seeking a hands-on Team Lead for its Cloud Infrastructure Team in France to direct a group of cloud engineers building and maintaining the ground segment that powers our satellite constellation.

You will set technical direction, promote DevOps/SRE practices, mentor engineers, and drive reliability, scalability, and security at scale while collaborating with Software, Security, and Mission teams to meet mission-critical requirements.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience managing and scaling cloud infrastructure or SRE teams.
• Hands-on with daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and Agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of cloud infrastructure engineers.
• Own and run daily team operations with clear priorities and high execution velocity.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, learning, psychological safety, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Define and communicate the team's mission, vision, and goals aligned with Loft Orbital's objectives.
• Champion DevOps/SRE mindset across the company, focusing on reliability, scalability, and security.
• Set and drive cloud infrastructure strategy for secure, scalable, cost-effective systems.
• Oversee multi-cloud designs (AWS, GCP, Azure) supporting satellite operations.
• Promote Infrastructure-as-Code, cloud automation, observability, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Establish incident management, disaster recovery, monitoring, and alerting best practices.
• Lead cloud cost optimization balancing innovation with operational efficiency.
• Partner with Software Engineering, Security, Satellite Operations, and Mission teams to meet mission-critical requirements.
• Influence architecture and operational processes across teams to align with reliability goals.
• Drive Agile delivery practices within the Cloud Infrastructure Team.

Skills

Leadership

Agile ceremonies

Agile project management

Public cloud platforms

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Observability

Automation (Python/Go)

Collaboration & communication

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Job description

Loft Orbital is seeking a hands-on Team Lead for its Cloud Infrastructure Team in France to direct a group of cloud engineers building and maintaining the ground segment that powers our satellite constellation.

You will set technical direction, promote DevOps/SRE practices, mentor engineers, and drive reliability, scalability, and security at scale while collaborating with Software, Security, and Mission teams to meet mission-critical requirements.