Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Platform)
northwoodspace6 hours ago
Torrance, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$145k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and operate cloud accounts, hosted Kubernetes clusters, certificate authorities, secrets, IAM, and observability infrastructure.
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code and implement GitOps practices and CI gates for infrastructure changes.
- Implement cloud networking, including VPCs, transit route tables, VPNs, Direct Connect attachments, and ingress and egress inspection.
- Participate in on-call operations, independently resolve incidents, and lead post-incident reviews for owned incidents.
- Partner with security engineering and compliance on policies, IAM boundaries, logging, evidence collection, and CVE mitigation.
- Automate recurring manual work and maintain runbooks, design documents, and component documentation.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, platform software, security, and ground-station operations teams.
Requirements
- 2–7 years of production infrastructure experience in SRE, DevOps, platform, cloud, or systems engineering.
- Demonstrated depth in multi-account cloud organizations, IAM, VPC networking, and EKS or equivalent managed Kubernetes.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code experience, including state management, CI-driven plan and apply, and shared monorepo workflows.
- Working competence with Linux, networking fundamentals, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling.
- End-to-end ownership of production systems from design and implementation through operation.
- Production on-call experience with measurable reliability outcomes.
- Programming ability in Python, Go, or a similar language for automation, tooling, and integration work.
- Strong technical writing skills for design documents, runbooks, and post-mortems.
- Preferred experience with AWS GovCloud or regulated or air-gapped environments; Vault; Okta or IAM Identity Center; VictoriaMetrics or Prometheus; Grafana; Vector; Loki; ArgoCD; Cloudflare; CMMC; NIST 800-171; NIST 800-53; FedRAMP; and hybrid cloud, on-premises, or edge connectivity.
- Candidates must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, protected individuals, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations under ITAR regulations.
Benefits
- The employer provides reasonable accommodations for employment applications and interviews.
- The role involves work subject to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including ITAR.
- Northwood Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
About northwoodspace
Northwood Space builds and operates a global network of phased-array ground stations that provide real-time, reliable links to satellites. It serves government and commercial satellite operators supporting national security, connectivity, and disaster response missions, offering ground-network capacity as a service with a vertically integrated hardware and software stack. The privately held company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and focuses on international markets alongside U.S. government and allied space customers.