Senior Cloud Infra Engineer: Kubernetes & IaC

Linuxconfig; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwood Space is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud to own and operate the cloud infrastructure stack, including hosted Kubernetes, IAM, and observability. You will define and implement GitOps practices, build automation, and collaborate with security, platform software, and ground station ops to maintain a reliable, scalable environment.

The role emphasizes independent ownership, deep cloud expertise, and contributor-level work with platform engineers to translate intent into robust

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate all components of the cloud infrastructure stack: cloud accounts, hosted k8s 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 incidents independently and run post-incident reviews.
• 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.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Cloud

IaC

Kubernetes

Linux

CI/CD

Python/Go

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

Vault

Grafana

Prometheus

Vector/Loki

Job description

Northwood Space is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud to own and operate the cloud infrastructure stack, including hosted Kubernetes, IAM, and observability. You will define and implement GitOps practices, build automation, and collaborate with security, platform software, and ground station ops to maintain a reliable, scalable environment.

The role emphasizes independent ownership, deep cloud expertise, and contributor-level work with platform engineers to translate intent into robust