Senior Cloud Infra & Networking Architect - Hybrid Cloud

Skylo; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Skylo is reshaping satellite connectivity from Mountain View, CA, with a direct-to-device NTN vRAN platform. We are seeking a Senior, Cloud Infrastructure and Networking to own 24x7 health across hybrid cloud and on‑prem environments, ensuring fault tolerance, observability, and rapid recovery across GKE, Kubernetes, and related OSS tools.

You’ll drive runbooks, incident response, and post-change validation while collaborating with NI and product teams to keep Skylo’s core services highly

Qualifications

• Own the observability pipeline end-to-end: Prometheus scrape target integrity, VictoriaMetrics retention and query performance, Grafana dashboard coverage and accuracy, OpenTelemetry collector health, and alert routing via Pub/Sub to the OSS.
• Maintain database reliability: PostgreSQL streaming replication health, backup and restore procedures, failover testing, query performance monitoring; Redis cluster operations, eviction policy management, and persistence configuration.
• Ensure log aggregation pipeline health (Loki or ELK): ingestion rates, retention policies, query performance, and completeness — the observability stack must be operational before the network events it monitors can be triaged.
• Partner with NI (Network Implementation & Infrastructure) on all planned infrastructure changes: receive advance notice, validate post-deployment observability, and sign off on operational readiness before the change window closes

Responsibilities

• Own 24x7 cloud infrastructure health across Skylo's hybrid production environment: GKE cluster node status, namespace and pod health, Persistent Volume Claim availability, network policies, and multi-cluster federation across Skylo's GCP footprint.
• Own on-premise Kubernetes cluster health: bare-metal node availability, container runtime stability, CNI networking, persistent storage arrays (Ceph/Rook or equivalent), and hyperconverged compute platform operations (Harvester, KubeVirt, or KVM).
• Monitor and triage infrastructure alarms using OSS dashboards, Grafana/VictoriaMetrics telemetry, GCP Cloud Monitoring, and Loki log correlation — distinguish transient platform events from systemic infrastructure degradation.
• Execute and own Cloud Infra runbooks for P2–P4 fault categories: GKE node recovery, pod eviction and rescheduling, PVC repair, database failover execution, Prometheus WAL corruption recovery, ArgoCD drift remediation, and certificate rotation — without requiring engineering involvement for covered fault classes.
• Own BSS-IIS GKE cluster monitoring and infrastructure health; maintain runbooks that reflect current cluster topology after every infrastructure change.

Skills

Kubernetes

GKE

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

PostgreSQL

Redis

Ceph

Rook

KubeVirt

Harvester

KVM

GCP

Tools

Harvester

KubeVirt

KVM

Ceph

Rook

Job description

Skylo is reshaping satellite connectivity from Mountain View, CA, with a direct-to-device NTN vRAN platform. We are seeking a Senior, Cloud Infrastructure and Networking to own 24x7 health across hybrid cloud and on‑prem environments, ensuring fault tolerance, observability, and rapid recovery across GKE, Kubernetes, and related OSS tools.

You’ll drive runbooks, incident response, and post-change validation while collaborating with NI and product teams to keep Skylo’s core services highly