Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer | Kubernetes & IaC

Northwood; Torrance (CA); Presencial; USD 140.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Northwood runs a global network of phased array ground stations and cloud infrastructure. The Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud owns and operates that environment, working with Platform software engineers to build services, config models, and automations that realize cloud intent.

You will independently manage a defined cloud scope, maintain reliability, and collaborate with security, network, and ground station teams to deliver scalable, observable infrastructure for mission-critical space

Formación

• 2–7 years of production infrastructure experience.
• Depth in cloud: multi-account, IAM, VPC networking, EKS or equivalent.
• Strong IaC experience: state management, CI-driven plan and apply, shared monorepo.
• Linux, networking, containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling.
• 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 and tooling.
• Strong technical writing: design docs, runbooks, post-mortems.

Responsabilidades

• 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 CI gates.
• Implement cloud-side networking: VPCs, transit route tables, VPNs and Direct Connect attachments.
• Carry on-call for the cloud stack and run post-incident reviews for owned incidents.
• Collaborate on controls implementation with security engineering and compliance.
• Automate repetitive toil and write/run design docs and runbooks.
• Collaborate across infrastructure, platform software, security, and ground station operations.

Conocimientos

Cloud computing

Kubernetes

IaC

Linux

CI/CD

Python/Go

On-call readiness

Technical writing

Herramientas

AWS GovCloud

Vault

Okta IAM

Prometheus

Grafana

ArgoCD

Cloudflare

FedRAMP controls

Descripción del empleo

Northwood runs a global network of phased array ground stations and cloud infrastructure. The Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud owns and operates that environment, working with Platform software engineers to build services, config models, and automations that realize cloud intent.

You will independently manage a defined cloud scope, maintain reliability, and collaborate with security, network, and ground station teams to deliver scalable, observable infrastructure for mission-critical space