Cloud Infra Engineer – Space Systems (Kubernetes, IaC)

Speedrun Talent Network; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwood Space is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud to own and operate the cloud infrastructure for a global network of phased array ground stations. You will manage cloud accounts, Kubernetes clusters, IAM, and the observability stack, while building IaC and GitOps processes.

Collaborate with security, platform software, and ground station teams to deliver reliable, scalable cloud services. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, on-call reliability, and deep scripting in Python or

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of production infrastructure experience (SRE, DevOps, platform, cloud, or systems engineering).
• Depth in cloud: multi-account organizations, IAM, VPC networking, EKS or equivalent managed Kubernetes.
• Strong IaC experience: state management, CI-driven plan and apply, working in a shared monorepo with other engineers.
• Working competence across Linux, networking fundamentals, containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a production system: design, implementation, operation.
• On-call experience in a production environment with measurable reliability outcomes.
• Comfortable in code (Python, Go, or similar) for automation, tooling, and integration work.
• Strong technical writing: design docs, runbooks, post-mortems.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate all components of the cloud infrastructure stack: cloud accounts, hosted kubernetes clusters, CA, secrets, IAM, the observability pipeline.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code. Define and implement GitOps practices and proper CI gates to test, audit, and approve infrastructure changes.
• Implement cloud-side networking: VPCs, transit route tables, VPNs and Direct Connect attachments, egress and ingress inspection.
• Carry on‑call for the cloud stack. Resolve the majority of incidents independently and run post‑incident reviews for the ones you own.
• Partner with security engineering and compliance on controls implementation in your areas: policies, IAM boundaries, logging coverage, evidence collection, CVE mitigation.
• Treat toil as a design signal. When manual work repeats, automate it or fix the underlying system.
• Write and maintain runbooks, design docs, and component documentation. Keep them current with the system.
• Collaborate across infrastructure, platform software, security, and ground station operations on cross‑cutting work.

Skills

Cloud networking

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Python/Go scripting

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Terraform

Vault

Grafana

Job description

Northwood Space is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud to own and operate the cloud infrastructure for a global network of phased array ground stations. You will manage cloud accounts, Kubernetes clusters, IAM, and the observability stack, while building IaC and GitOps processes.

Collaborate with security, platform software, and ground station teams to deliver reliable, scalable cloud services. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, on-call reliability, and deep scripting in Python or