Basic Qualifications

• 2–7 years of production infrastructure experience (SRE, DevOps, platform, cloud, or systems engineering). See Levels below for what we expect across that range.
• Depth in cloud: multi-account organizations, IAM, VPC networking, EKS or equivalent managed Kubernetes.
• Strong IaC experience: state management, CI-driven plan and apply, working in a shared monorepo with other engineers.
• Working competence across Linux, networking fundamentals, containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a production system: design, implementation, operation.
• On-call experience in a production environment with measurable reliability outcomes.
• Comfortable in code (Python, Go, or similar) for automation, tooling, and integration work.
• Strong technical writing: design docs, runbooks, post-mortems.

Preferred Qualifications
Depth in one or more of the following weighs heavily. We hire generalists with a spike.

• AWS GovCloud or other regulated or air-gapped cloud environments, including the service gaps and workarounds that come with them.
• Secrets and identity infrastructure: Vault (PKI, auth methods, policy design), Okta or IAM Identity Center integration, workload identity.
• Observability at scale: VictoriaMetrics or Prometheus, Grafana, alerting design, log pipelines (Vector, Loki).
• EKS: multi-cluster ArgoCD, cluster lifecycle, node and network policy, workload isolation.
• Cloudflare: Zero Trust, DNS, tunnels, WAF.
• Compliance partnership: implementing technical controls for CMMC, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP.
• Hybrid connectivity between cloud and on-prem or edge sites.

Additional Information:

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To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Northwood Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Northwood Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Compensation: $145K - $190K