Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Loft Orbital Solutions4 months ago
Toulouse, FranceSenior
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with developers and satellite operators to build a strong SatDevOps culture.
- Design, implement, maintain, and scale reliable and secure infrastructure in a hybrid-cloud environment.
- Build developer tools, workflows, and environments that improve developer experience.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows.
- Own and evolve the observability stack, including metrics, tracing, and logs.
- Improve software reliability, fault tolerance, performance, and long-term system health.
- Identify and resolve reliability issues, perform root-cause analyses, and implement durable fixes.
- Partner with teams to design and operate Software Defined Networking solutions.
Requirements
- Strong experience with public-cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, deployment, operations, and resource optimization.
- Demonstrated ability to design and build scalable, highly available systems.
- Familiarity with Software Defined Networking concepts and tools.
- Experience implementing and maintaining observability stacks such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, Rust, C, C++, or Java.
- Hands-on experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automation.
- Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth technical environments.
- Strong problem-solving, independent-operation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with ArgoCD, FluxCD, FinOps, resource-constrained orchestration, systems engineering tools, SDLC governance, security practices, vulnerability scanning, threat detection, and risk mitigation.
Benefits
- Equity participation.
- Up to 35 days of paid time off, including vacations and RTT, with flexible working hours.
- Health and life insurance.
- Lunch vouchers.
- Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse.
- Company and team off-sites and other events.
- Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable.
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About Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions builds standardized satellite platforms and delivers end-to-end missions as a service for governments, companies, and research institutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held firm integrates, launches, and operates spacecraft to deploy Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on‑orbit compute, and national security payloads in months. Loft has flown more than 30 missions, using hardware and software abstraction layers atop commodity satellite buses.