# Senior Infrastructure Engineer

**Company:** [Northwood Space](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/northwood-space)
**Location:** Los Angeles, CA, Washington, DC, California
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Python, Go, CI/CD, Prometheus, EKS, Argo CD, Fortigate, Wireguard, BGP, Hashicorp Vault, Victoriametrics
**Posted:** 2026-04-22

> Senior individual contributor owning infrastructure stack areas, driving scope from ambiguity, setting technical direction via RFCs, leading on-call escalations, and mentoring engineers. Requires 5+ years production infra experience with expertise in Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and strong coding skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and drive scope in one or more areas of the infrastructure stack. Take ambiguous problems from framing through design, implementation, and operation.
- Set the technical direction for your areas — write RFCs, evaluate tradeoffs, and make decisions that affect how the team operates for years.
- Act as the final escalation point on-call. Drive resolution of the hardest incidents and lead post-incident reviews that produce durable fixes.
- Raise the bar through design review, code review, and mentorship. Develop other engineers by working alongside them.
- Partner with security, compliance, product engineering, and ground station ops as a peer technical leader. Translate between infrastructure constraints and the needs of other teams.
- Identify systemic toil and underinvestment. Propose and execute the work that eliminates it, including work that spans other engineers' domains.
- Represent the infrastructure team in technical decisions across the organization. Write the documents others reference.

## Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of production infrastructure experience (SRE, DevOps, platform, network, or systems engineering), with demonstrated ownership of systems that were still operating well years after they were built.
- Working competence across: **Linux**, **networking**, **AWS** or equivalent cloud, **infrastructure as code (Terraform)**, **containers and Kubernetes**, **CI/CD pipelines**, **observability**, **secrets management**.
- Expert-level depth in at least one of these.
- Track record of taking ambiguous problems and producing designs and implementation that others can operate.
- Senior on-call experience — has been the person a team escalates to.
- Strong code and automation skills (**Python**, **Go**, or similar).
- Proven technical writing and mentorship.
- US person status (ITAR requirement).

## Preferred Qualifications
- Deep background in one or more of the following:
  - **Networking** — enterprise (FortiGate, switching), site/ground station, or core (TGW, WireGuard, BGP, IPsec).
  - **Security engineering** — Vault at scale, identity and IAM architecture, SIEM design and operation, hardening programs.
  - **Compliance partnership** — leading technical controls implementation for CMMC, FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, ITAR.
  - **Observability at scale** — designing SLO/SLI frameworks, operating **VictoriaMetrics** or **Prometheus**, building log pipelines.
  - **App platform** — **EKS** at scale, on-prem **k3s**, multi-cluster **ArgoCD** and GitOps patterns.
  - **CI/CD and developer experience** — building pipelines and platforms.
  - **Cloud architecture** — multi-account **AWS**, **GovCloud**, **Cloudflare**, hybrid and air-gapped deployments.
  - On-prem and hardware-adjacent ops.

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