# Infrastructure Engineer

**Company:** [Northwood Space](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/northwood-space)
**Location:** Los Angeles, CA, Washington, DC, California
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, CI/CD, Helm, GitOps, Prometheus, Grafana, Argo CD, EKS, Python, Go, Vault
**Posted:** 2026-04-22

> Owns and operates infrastructure stack components including CI/CD, cloud/IaC, networking, and observability using Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS. Requires 3-5 years production SRE/DevOps experience with on-call, automation in Python/Go, and strong technical writing.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own and operate one or more components of the Northwood infrastructure stack (CI/CD, app platform, cloud/IaC, networking, observability, security tooling).
- Take a defined scope and execute without ongoing oversight.
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code. Default to **Terraform**, **Helm**, and **GitOps**.
- Carry on-call for the infra stack. Handle the majority of incidents to resolution independently.
- Run post-incident reviews for incidents you owned.
- Partner with security engineering and compliance on controls implementation (**Vault** policies, IAM boundaries, SIEM coverage, evidence collection).
- Treat toil as a design signal. When manual work repeats, automate it or fix the underlying system.
- Write and maintain runbooks, design docs, and component documentation. Keep them current with the system.
- Collaborate across infra, product engineering, and ground station operations on cross-cutting work.

## Basic Qualifications
- 3-5 years of production infrastructure experience (**SRE**, **DevOps**, platform, network, or systems engineering).
- Working competence across: **Linux**, networking fundamentals, **AWS** or equivalent cloud, infrastructure as code (**Terraform**), containers and **Kubernetes**, **CI/CD** pipelines, observability tooling.
- Demonstrated ownership of a production system end-to-end: 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
- Strong background in one or more of the following: Networking (**FortiGate**, switching, TGW, **WireGuard**, **BGP**, IPsec), Security engineering (**Vault**, **Okta**, IAM, SIEM), Compliance (**CMMC**, **FedRAMP**, **NIST 800-171**, ITAR), Observability (**VictoriaMetrics**, **Prometheus**, **Grafana**, **Vector**, **Loki**), App platform (**EKS**, **k3s**, **ArgoCD**), CI/CD and developer experience, Cloud architecture (multi-account **AWS**, **GovCloud**, **Cloudflare**), On-prem and hardware-adjacent ops.

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