Site Reliability Engineer

Loft Orbital Solutions
Abu Dhabi
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Leadership"]

Senior Site Reliability Engineer responsible for maintaining and scaling ground segment infrastructure for Orbitworks, collaborating across development, operations, and IT to ensure reliable, automated space infrastructure. You’ll design cloud and on-prem hybrid systems, lead CI/CD and IaC efforts, enhance observability, and implement SDN, with a focus on scalable, secure architectures in a fast-moving aerospace environment.

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Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions
7 months ago

Site Reliability Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior Site Reliability Engineer responsible for maintaining and scaling ground segment infrastructure for Orbitworks, collaborating across development, operations, and IT to ensure reliable, automated space infrastructure. You’ll design cloud and on-prem hybrid systems, lead CI/CD and IaC efforts, enhance observability, and implement SDN, with a focus on scalable, secure architectures in a fast-moving aerospace environment.
Location: Abu Dhabi
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Collaborate with developers, test engineers and satellite operators to foster a strong SatDevOps culture.
  • •Design and roll-out cloud solutions for our testing and operations infrastructure to scale.
  • •Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment.
  • •Lead efforts to automate and optimize systems, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning (IaC), and deployment workflows for test on the ground and operations in space.
  • •Own and evolve our observability stack (metrics, tracing, logs) to improve usability and performance. Grafana-centric ecosystems are a plus.

Key Requirements

  • •Strong experience with public cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP.
  • •Deep expertise in Kubernetes, architecture, deployment, ops, and resource optimization.
  • •Proficiency in DevOps practices: CI/CD, infrastructure as code (IaC), and automation.
  • •Experience implementing and maintaining observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, etc.).
  • •Strong networking knowledge and Systems Administration background.
Experience:SpaceAerospaceSatellitesSpace industry
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingCollaborationLeadership
Tech Stack:GCPKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusLokiTerraformAnsibleArgoCDFluxCDGoPythonRustJavaCI/CDIaCSDN

Company Brief

Loft Orbital Solutions
Provides satellite rideshare and mission integration services, offering turnkey spacecraft platforms, payload hosting, and mission operations to accelerate deployment of space-based payloads for commercial and government customers.
Industry: Space Technology
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Long Beach, United States
Founded: 2017
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