Team Lead

**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