Site Reliability Engineer (Network)
Loft Orbital Solutions4 months ago
Toulouse, FranceMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement cloud, VPN, site-to-site, segmented, and routed network architecture across offices, ground stations, and test equipment.
- Improve network security through segmentation, access controls, and connectivity hardening.
- Manage network infrastructure as code using IaC, CI/CD, and GitOps workflows.
- Define SLOs for connectivity and ground-station availability and own metrics, logs, tracing, and other observability systems.
- Investigate reliability issues, perform root-cause analysis, implement durable fixes, and automate operational toil.
- Participate in broader SRE platform reliability, expansion, incident-response, planning, and user-support work.
Requirements
- 4–5 years of network engineering experience with hands-on routing, VPN/site-to-site connectivity, segmentation, DNS, and firewalling.
- Hands-on software-defined networking experience and the ability to manage networks programmatically as code.
- Strong public-cloud networking experience, ideally with GCP, VPCs, peering, and hybrid connectivity.
- Experience operating on a Kubernetes platform, including Kubernetes and Docker, with occasional coding.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform and with CI/CD-driven GitOps workflows.
- Understanding of SLOs, observability, automation, and reliability engineering practices.
- Ability to debug connectivity issues in complex hybrid network environments.
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Network certification such as CCNP or similar is preferred.
- Experience with ArgoCD or FluxCD, FinOps, vulnerability scanning, threat detection, risk mitigation, or orchestration in resource-constrained environments is preferred.
Benefits
- Equity, health and life insurance, lunch vouchers, and up to 35 days of paid time off.
- Flexible working hours and cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse.
- Company and team off-sites and other events.
- Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
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.