Team Lead – Cloud Infrastructure Team
| Company | Loft Orbital |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA, Golden, CO, USA |
| Salary | $140250 – $190000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Proven leadership experience managing and scaling high-performing cloud infrastructure or SRE teams.
- Hands-on experience running team ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives) and ensuring effective Agile practices.
- Agile project management experience, delivering complex infrastructure projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong expertise in public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP preferred) and cloud-native technologies.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform).
- Kubernetes and container orchestration experience.
- CI/CD tools and pipelines experience (e.g., GitLab CI, ArgoCD).
- Observability stacks experience (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).
- Strong background in automation, scripting (Python, Go, or similar), and modern DevOps practices.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills; able to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and leadership.
- Experience managing cloud security and compliance considerations.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of highly skilled cloud infrastructure engineers.
- Own and run daily team operations, including standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and sync meetings to ensure clear priorities, high execution velocity, and smooth communication.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, psychological safety, and collaborative problem solving.
- Define and communicate the team’s mission, vision, and goals aligned with Loft Orbital’s broader business objectives.
- Champion a DevOps/SRE mindset across the company, promoting ownership of reliability, scalability, and security.
- Set and drive the cloud infrastructure strategy, ensuring systems are secure, scalable, and cost-effective.
- Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of multi-cloud solutions (AWS, GCP, Azure) supporting highly reliable satellite operations.
- Champion Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), cloud automation, observability, and continuous integration/delivery pipelines.
- Establish and maintain best practices for incident management, disaster recovery, monitoring, and alerting.
- Lead cloud cost optimization efforts, balancing innovation with operational efficiency.
- Partner closely with Software Engineering, Security, Satellite Operations, and Mission teams to ensure our ground infrastructure meets mission-critical requirements.
- Influence architecture and operational processes across teams to align with infrastructure and reliability goals.
- Drive Agile delivery practices within the Cloud Infrastructure Team and support broader engineering initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a highly regulated industry (e.g., aerospace, defense, critical infrastructure).
- FinOps experience managing cloud cost visibility and optimization strategies.
- Hybrid infrastructure (cloud and on-prem) management experience.
- Prior work with Satellite Operations, Mission Planning, or Space Systems Engineering.
- Familiarity with GitOps methodologies (ArgoCD, Flux).