Loft Orbital builds a space infrastructure providing a fast & simple path to orbit. We operate satellites fly customer payloads onboard and handle the entire mission from initial concept through inorbit operations significantly reducing the leadtime and risk of a traditional space mission.
As part of Site Reliability team you will be responsible for keeping our ground segment infrastructure reliable scalable and maintainable. You will be closely working with the development operations IT teams to ensure integration delivery and reliability of our services.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting edge technology and help build modern automated space infrastructure. DevOps philosophy is spread all across our mindset including satellite operations. We offer SatDevOps training to empower you operate our spacecraft!
*Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria women and other marginalized people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft we value respectful debate and people who arent afraid to challenge assumptions. We strongly encourage you to apply even if you dont check all the boxes.
About the role:
Work with both developers and satellite operator teams with a focus on developing SatDevOps culture.
Support our internal team through effective diagnosis implementation of new investigation tools to increase productivity and performance.
Design implement and maintain scalable reliable and secure infrastructure.
Develop and design a better dev experience
Improve our observability stack and its usability
Automate and optimise our delivery system infrastructure provisioning etc
Help implementing and educating over best practices for software development and monitoring
Must Haves:
Proficiency and technical experience in public cloud infrastructure (preferably in GCP)
Proficiency in Kubernetes architecture deployment operations and resource optimisation
Experience in designing and architecting reliable scalable systems
First experience with Software Define Network solutions
Experience with implementing and supporting observability stacks preferably with a focus on Grafana solutions.
Experience with at least one of those programming languages: Go Python Rust C/C Java
Proficiency in DevOps methodology and practices. Experience with CI/CD IaaC
A firm belief in the power of innovation as a key driver of success and growth. A passion for staying ahead of the curve in a highly technical fastpaced environment.
Excellent communication skills and ease at working in multi cultural environment
Ability to solve problems and make decisions with a proactive resultsoriented mindset
Nice to Haves:
Familiar with GitOps (Argo FluxCD) FinOps Grafana stacks Orchestration in space constraints
Knowledge of system engineering software tools
Interested in Security subjects. Experience in using vulnerability scanning tools and methods to detect and mitigate security risks
Who We Are
Our standard interface enables us to fly multiple customer payloads on the same satellite with capabilities such as earth imagery weather & climate /science data collection IoT connectivity inorbit demonstrations and national security missions. Our customers trust us to manage their space infrastructure so they can focus on what matters most to them: operating their mission and collecting their data.
At Loft youll be given the autonomy and ownership to solve significant challenges but with a closeknit and supportive team at your back. We believe that diversity and community are the foundation of an open culture. We are committed to hiring the best people regardless of background and make their time at Loft the most fulfilling period of their career.
We value kind supportive and teamoriented collaborators. It is also crucial for us that you are a problem solver and a great communicator. As our team is international you will need strong English skills to better collaborate easily communicate complex ideas and convey important messages.
With 4 satellites onorbit and a wave of exciting missions launching soon we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco CA Golden CO and Toulouse France.
As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.
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