Team Lead - Cloud Infrastructure Team
Team Lead - Cloud Infrastructure Team
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10-05-2025
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Wanna join the adventure
Loft Orbital is revolutionizing access to space by building reliable shareable satellites that drastically reduce the time and complexity traditionally required to get to orbit. We operate satellites fly customer payloads and handle entire missions from endtoend. Were a closeknit team of space enthusiasts software experts and cuttingedge technologists all working together to make space simple for our customers.
As a passionate and experienced Team Lead for our Cloud Infrastructure Team you will play a missioncritical leadership position you will oversee a dynamic group of cloud engineers responsible for building and maintaining the cloudbased ground segment that powers our rapidly expanding constellation of satellites.
You will set the technical direction foster collaboration across teams champion DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices and directly contribute to our mission of making access to space fast simple and reliable.
This is a handson leadership role for someone who thrives in highgrowth environments enjoys technical challenges at scale and is passionate about mentorship reliability and innovation.
About the Role:
- Lead mentor and grow a team of highly skilled cloud infrastructure engineers.
- Own and run daily team operations including standups sprint planning retrospectives and sync meetings to ensure clear priorities high execution velocity and smooth communication.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence continuous learning psychological safety and collaborative problem solving.
- Define and communicate the teams mission vision and goals aligned with Loft Orbitals broader business objectives.
- Champion a DevOps/SRE mindset across the company promoting ownership of reliability scalability and security.
- Set and drive the cloud infrastructure strategy ensuring systems are secure scalable and costeffective.
- Oversee the design implementation and maintenance of multicloud solutions (AWS GCP Azure) supporting highly reliable satellite operations.
- Champion InfrastructureasCode (IaC) cloud automation observability and continuous integration/delivery pipelines.
- Establish and maintain best practices for incident management disaster recovery monitoring and alerting.
- Lead cloud cost optimization efforts balancing innovation with operational efficiency.
- Partner closely with Software Engineering Security Satellite Operations and Mission teams to ensure our ground infrastructure meets missioncritical requirements.
- Influence architecture and operational processes across teams to align with infrastructure and reliability goals.
- Drive Agile delivery practices within the Cloud Infrastructure Team and support broader engineering initiatives.
Must Haves:
- Proven leadership experience managing and scaling highperforming cloud infrastructure or SRE teams.
- Handson experience running team ceremonies (daily standups sprint planning backlog grooming retrospectives) and ensuring effective Agile practices.
- Agile project management experience delivering complex infrastructure projects in a fastpaced environment.
- Strong expertise in public cloud platforms (AWS GCP preferred) and cloudnative technologies.
- Handson experience with:
- InfrastructureasCode (e.g. Terraform)
- Kubernetes and container orchestration
- CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g. GitLab CI ArgoCD)
- Observability stacks (Prometheus Grafana Loki)
- Strong background in automation scripting (Python Go or similar) and modern DevOps practices.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills; able to work effectively with engineers product managers and leadership.
- Experience managing cloud security and compliance considerations.
Nice to Haves:
- Experience in a highly regulated industry (e.g. aerospace defense critical infrastructure).
- FinOps experience managing cloud cost visibility and optimization strategies.
- Hybrid infrastructure (cloud and onprem) management experience.
- Prior work with Satellite Operations Mission Planning or Space Systems Engineering.
- Familiarity with GitOps methodologies (ArgoCD Flux).
$140250 $190000 a year
State law requires us to tell you the base compensation range for this role which is $140250 $190000 per year. This is determined by your education experience knowledge skills and abilities. The salary range for this role is intentionally wide as we evaluate individuals based on their unique experience and abilities to fit our needs. Most importantly we are excited to meet you and see if you are a great fit for our team. What wecantquantify for you are the exciting challenges supportive team and amazing culture we enjoy.
*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.
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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