Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Loft Orbital; Toulouse; Sur place; EUR 85 000 - 135 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Equity

Healthcare

Lunch vouchers

Relocation assistance

Résumé du poste

Loft Orbital is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join the Cloud Infrastructure Team. You will maintain and scale our ground segment infrastructure, collaborating 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 role emphasizes SatDevOps, a hybrid cloud approach, Kubernetes expertise, GCP, IaC, CI/CD, and building scalable, highly available systems.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing scalable cloud infrastructure in hybrid environments.
• Strong knowledge of GCP and container orchestration.
• Hands-on DevOps with IaC and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsabilités

• Collaborate with developers and satellite operators to foster a SatDevOps culture.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Improve developer experience by building better tools, workflows, and environments.
• Lead automation for CI/CD, IaC, and deployment workflows.

Connaissances

Kubernetes

GCP

DevOps

CI/CD

IaC

Observability

Go/Python/Java

Security

Outils

Grafana

Prometheus

ArgoCD

FluxCD

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Description du poste

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!

About the Role:

• Collaborate with developers and satellite operators to foster a strong SatDevOps culture.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Improve our developer experience by building better tools, workflows, and environments.
• Lead efforts to automate and optimize systems, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning (IaC), and deployment workflows.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Hands‑on experience with GitOps frameworks (ArgoCD, FluxCD).
• Interest or experience in FinOps and cost‑optimized architectures.
• Understanding of orchestration in resource‑constrained environments, like space systems.
• Knowledge of systems engineering tools and SDLC governance.
• Familiarity with security practices, vulnerability scanning, threat detection, risk mitigation.

• Equity, we want you to have an active role in our success
• Up to 35 days of Paid Time Off (vacations & RTT) and flexible working hours, we want you to be at your best
• Health and life insurance, we care about your health
• Lunch Vouchers, because let’s be honest, we love food! (we even have a slack channel about it #loft‑gourmand)
• Cross‑office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse to learn from our differences
• Company and team off‑sites and many other events to work & celebrate together
• Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable