Site Reliability Engineer

Loft Orbital

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with developers, test engineers and satellite operators to foster a strong SatDevOps culture.
• Design and roll-out cloud solutions for our testing and operations infrastructure. Find the best trade-offs between existing and additional cloud resources to scale and help Orbitworks achieve its mission.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Improve our developer and test engineers experience by building better tools, workflows, and environment to streamline
• Lead efforts to automate and optimize systems, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning (IaC), and deployment workflows for test on the ground and operations in space.
• Own and evolve our observability stack (metrics, tracing, logs) to improve usability and performance. Grafana-centric ecosystems are a plus.
• Implement and advocate for best practices in software reliability, fault tolerance, and performance tuning.
• Proactively identify, investigate, and resolve system reliability issues, performing root cause analyses and implementing long-term fixes.
• Partner with teams to design and operate Software Defined Network (SDN) solutions.
• Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive team culture where respectful debate and continuous learning are celebrated.
• Initially, handle and manage the link between cloud and network/software/hardware infrastructure. Assume I&T (Information technology) responsibilities as much as necessary to start with.

Must Haves:

• Strong experience with public cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, architecture, deployment, ops, and resource optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to design and build scalable, highly available systems.
• Familiarity with Software Defined Networking (SDN) concepts and tools.
• Experience implementing and maintaining observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, etc.).
• Proficiency in at least one backend language: Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, or Java.
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience with DevOps practices: CI/CD, infrastructure as code (IaC), and automation.
• Proven track record of working in fast-paced, high-growth technical environments.
• Strong networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, secure networks).
• Deep experience in Systems Administration.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently with a proactive, results-driven mindset.
• Strong communication skills; thrives in a multicultural, cross-functional team.

Nice to Have:

• Hands-on experience with GitOps frameworks (ArgoCD, FluxCD).
• Interest or experience in FinOps and cost-optimized architectures.
• Understanding of orchestration in resource-constrained environments, like space systems.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code frameworks (Terraform, Ansible or similar)
• Knowledge of systems engineering tools and SDLC governance.
• Cybersecurity Awareness.
• Familiarity with security practices, vulnerability scanning, threat detection, risk mitigation.