Senior Cloud Infra Engineer — IaC & Scale

Northwood Space; New Mexico; Presencial; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Northwood Space, a modern space infrastructure company, is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud to own and operate our cloud environment. This is a core individual contributor role on the Infrastructure team.

You take a defined scope, run it independently, and bring real depth in cloud infrastructure. You will work directly with Platform software engineers building the services and config models that describe what the environment should be.

Formación

• 2–7 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.

Responsabilidades

• Own and operate cloud infrastructure stack: accounts, k8s clusters, CA, secrets, IAM, and observability pipeline.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code; define GitOps and CI gates.
• Implement cloud networking: VPCs, transit routes, VPNs, Direct Connect; collaborate with network engineering.
• Carry on-call for the cloud stack; resolve incidents and run post-incident reviews.
• Partner with security/compliance on controls: policies, IAM boundaries, logging, CVE mitigation.
• Treat toil as a design signal; automate repetitive manual work.
• Write and maintain runbooks, design docs, and component docs.
• Collaborate across infra, platform software, security, and ground station operations.

Conocimientos

SRE/DevOps

Cloud fundamentals

Kubernetes

IaC / GitOps

CI/CD

Python / Go

Technical writing

On-call experience

Herramientas

AWS GovCloud

Vault

Okta

Prometheus

Grafana

Vector

Loki

ArgoCD

EKS

Descripción del empleo

Northwood Space, a modern space infrastructure company, is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud to own and operate our cloud environment. This is a core individual contributor role on the Infrastructure team.

You take a defined scope, run it independently, and bring real depth in cloud infrastructure. You will work directly with Platform software engineers building the services and config models that describe what the environment should be.