Team Lead - Cloud Infrastructure Team

1 Month ago • All levels • $140,250 PA - $190,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As Team Lead for the Cloud Infrastructure Team, you will lead a team of cloud engineers, setting technical direction, fostering collaboration, and championing DevOps/SRE practices. You'll be responsible for building and maintaining the cloud-based ground segment, ensuring systems are secure, scalable, and cost-effective. This role involves hands-on leadership, mentoring, and driving innovation in a high-growth environment. You will lead team operations, define team goals, champion DevOps/SRE, and partner with various teams to meet mission-critical requirements. The role also involves managing incident management, disaster recovery, and cloud cost optimization.
Must have:
  • Leadership experience in managing high-performing cloud infrastructure teams
  • Experience running team ceremonies and ensuring effective Agile practices.
  • Agile project management experience, delivering complex infrastructure projects.
  • Strong expertise in public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP preferred) and cloud-native technologies.
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform).
  • Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, ArgoCD).
  • Experience with Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).
  • Strong background in automation, scripting (Python, Go, or similar), and DevOps.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
Good to have:
  • Experience in a highly regulated industry (e.g., aerospace, defense, critical infrastructure).
  • FinOps experience managing cloud cost visibility and optimization.
  • 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).

Job Details

Wanna join the adventure?

Loft Orbital is revolutionizing access to space by building reliable, shareable satellites that drastically reduce the time and complexity traditionally required to get to orbit. We operate satellites, fly customer payloads, and handle entire missions from end-to-end. We’re a close-knit team of space enthusiasts, software experts, and cutting-edge technologists, all working together to make space simple for our customers.

As a passionate and experienced Team Lead for our Cloud Infrastructure Team, you will play a mission-critical leadership position, you will oversee a dynamic group of cloud engineers responsible for building and maintaining the cloud-based ground segment that powers our rapidly expanding constellation of satellites.
You will set the technical direction, foster collaboration across teams, champion DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices, and directly contribute to our mission of making access to space fast, simple, and reliable.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives in high-growth environments, enjoys technical challenges at scale, and is passionate about mentorship, reliability, and innovation.

About the Role:

    • 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.

Must Haves:

    • 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
    • CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, ArgoCD)
    • Observability stacks (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.

Nice to Haves:

    • 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).
$140,250 - $190,000 a year
State law requires us to tell you the base compensation range for this role, which is $140,250- $190,000 per year. This is determined by your education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.  The salary range for this role is intentionally wide as we evaluate individuals based on their unique experience and abilities to fit our needs. Most importantly, we are excited to meet you, and see if you are a great fit for our team. What we can’t quantify for you are the exciting challenges, supportive team, and amazing culture we enjoy.
 *Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalized people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft, we value respectful debate and people who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions.  We strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes.

Who We Are

Loft Orbital builds “shareable” satellites, providing a fast & simple path to orbit for organizations that require access to space. Powered by our hardware & software products, we operate satellites, fly customer payloads onboard, and handle entire missions from end to end - significantly reducing the lead-time and risk of a traditional space mission.

Our standard interface enables us to fly multiple customer payloads on the same satellite, with capabilities such as earth imagery, weather & climate /science data collection, IoT connectivity, in-orbit demonstrations, and national security missions. Our customers trust us to manage their space infrastructure, so they can focus on what matters most to them: operating their mission and collecting their data.

At Loft, you’ll be given the autonomy and ownership to solve significant challenges, but with a close-knit and supportive team at your back. We believe that diversity and community are the foundation of an open culture. We are committed to hiring the best people regardless of background and make their time at Loft the most fulfilling period of their career.

We value kind, supportive and team-oriented collaborators. It is also crucial for us that you are a problem solver and a great communicator. As our team is international, you will need strong English skills to better collaborate, easily communicate complex ideas and convey important messages.

With 4 satellites on-orbit and a wave of exciting missions launching soon, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France.

As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.

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