Infrastructure Engineer (Platform)
northwoodspace24 hours ago
Torrance, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$125k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and operate cloud accounts, hosted Kubernetes clusters, certificate authority, secrets, IAM, and observability infrastructure.
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code, including GitOps practices and CI gates for testing, auditing, and approving infrastructure changes.
- Implement cloud networking across VPCs, transit route tables, VPNs, Direct Connect attachments, and ingress and egress inspection.
- Participate in cloud-stack on-call rotations, independently resolve incidents, and lead post-incident reviews.
- Partner with security engineering and compliance teams on policies, IAM boundaries, logging, evidence collection, and CVE mitigation.
- Automate recurring manual work and improve the underlying systems.
- Maintain runbooks, design documents, post-mortems, and component documentation.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, platform software, security, and ground-station operations teams.
Requirements
- 2–5 years of production infrastructure experience in SRE, DevOps, platform, cloud, or systems engineering.
- Deep experience with 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 workflows, and shared monorepos.
- Working competence with Linux, networking fundamentals, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of production systems from design and implementation through operation.
- Production on-call experience with measurable reliability outcomes.
- Programming experience in Python, Go, or a similar language for automation, tooling, and integrations.
- Strong technical writing skills for design documents, runbooks, and post-mortems.
- Preferred experience includes AWS GovCloud or regulated or air-gapped cloud environments; Vault, Okta, or IAM Identity Center; VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Grafana, Vector, or Loki; EKS and ArgoCD; Cloudflare; hybrid cloud and on-premises connectivity; and CMMC, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, or FedRAMP controls.
- Applicants must meet applicable ITAR eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
Benefits
- The role includes production on-call responsibilities and work across cloud, platform, security, and ground-station operations.
- Employment is subject to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including ITAR eligibility requirements.
- Reasonable accommodation is available during the application and interview process.
- 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.