Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Wanna Join the Adventure?

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 in-orbit operations, significantly reducing the lead-time 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 aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t ‘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, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills and ease at working in multi cultural environment
• Ability to solve problems and make decisions with a proactive, results-oriented 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