Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead

Loft Orbital builds, launches, and operates spacecraft, providing governments, companies, and research institutions with end-to-end missions as a service. Its services include Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, and national security missions.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of cloud infrastructure engineers
• Run daily team operations, including standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and sync meetings
• Foster technical excellence, continuous learning, psychological safety, and collaborative problem-solving
• Define and communicate the team’s mission, vision, and goals in alignment with business objectives
• Promote DevOps and SRE practices and ownership of reliability, scalability, and security
• Set and drive cloud infrastructure strategy, ensuring systems are secure, scalable, and cost-effective
• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of multi-cloud solutions supporting satellite operations
• Promote Infrastructure-as-Code, cloud automation, observability, and CI/CD pipelines
• Establish and maintain best practices for incident management, disaster recovery, monitoring, and alerting
• Lead cloud cost optimization efforts while balancing innovation and operational efficiency
• Partner with Software Engineering, Security, Satellite Operations, and Mission teams to meet mission-critical requirements
• Influence architecture and operational processes across teams to support infrastructure and reliability goals
• Drive Agile delivery practices within the Cloud Infrastructure Team and support broader engineering initiatives

• Proven experience leading and scaling high-performing cloud infrastructure or SRE teams
• Hands-on experience running team ceremonies and ensuring effective Agile practices
• Agile project management experience delivering complex infrastructure projects in a fast-paced environment
• Strong expertise in public cloud platforms and cloud-native technologies
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes, container orchestration, CI/CD tools and pipelines, and observability stacks
• Strong background in automation, scripting with 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
• Attach a copy of your resume in English
• Будет плюсом: experience in a highly regulated industry such as aerospace, defense, or critical infrastructure; FinOps experience with cloud cost visibility and optimization; hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure management; work with Satellite Operations, Mission Planning, or Space Systems Engineering; familiarity with GitOps methodologies such as ArgoCD or Flux

• Equity
• Up to 35 days of paid time off (vacations and RTT) and flexible working hours
• Health and life insurance
• Lunch vouchers
• Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse
• Company and team off-sites and other events
• Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable