# Team Lead - Cloud Infrastructure **Company:** [Loft Orbital](https://zerogtalent.com/space-companies/loft-orbital) **Location:** Golden, CO **Work mode:** On-site **Seniority:** Senior **Employment type:** Full Time **Salary:** USD 190K–255K/yr **Category:** Software **Department:** Other **Listed:** 2026-11-06 [View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/space-jobs/loft-orbital/team-lead-cloud-infrastructure-115b677e-4172-485e-a269-db90c5f564a1) ## What you'll do - Lead, mentor, and grow cloud infrastructure engineers - Set and drive cloud infrastructure strategy - Oversee multi-cloud solutions for satellite operations - Champion IaC, observability, and CI/CD pipelines - Drive Agile delivery practices across engineering teams ## What you need - Proven leadership managing cloud infrastructure or SRE teams - Hands-on Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipeline experience - Strong expertise in AWS, GCP, and cloud-native technologies - Agile project management and team ceremony facilitation - Cloud security and compliance considerations experience ## Job description **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 role, 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 this 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**). ### Some of Our Awesome Benefits: - 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance option for employees and dependents - Flexible Spending (FSA) and Health Savings (HSA) Accounts offered with an employer contribution to the HSA - 100% employer paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability insurance - Flexible Time Off policy for vacation and sick leave, and 12 paid holidays - 401(k) plan and equity options - Daily catered lunches and snacks - International exposure to our team in France - Fully paid parental leave; 14 weeks for primary caregiver and 10 weeks for secondary caregiver - Carrot Fertility provides comprehensive, inclusive fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits with financial support - Off-sites and many social events and celebrations - Relocation assistance when applicable  _\*__Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented 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: Space Made Simple.  Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit. We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more. Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months. With more than 30 missions flown, Loft’s flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives. With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure. _As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English._ ## Other open roles at Loft Orbital - [Team Lead - Cloud Infrastructure](https://zerogtalent.com/space-jobs/loft-orbital/team-lead-cloud-infrastructure-17968c7a-a3e9-436a-a659-139bc927aa9b) — Toulouse, Occitanie - [Flight Dynamics Software Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/space-jobs/loft-orbital/flight-dynamics-software-engineer-d2ec023c-42c4-4cf3-a891-9230d0811cc0) — San Francisco, CA - [Flight Dynamics Software Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/space-jobs/loft-orbital/flight-dynamics-software-engineer-c6d4fb42-d7e3-46ef-bdaf-299c372b7dd4) — Golden, CO - [Flight Dynamics Software Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/space-jobs/loft-orbital/flight-dynamics-software-engineer-a1a4fb23-bf7d-4eda-9a27-82130e8ead99) — Toulouse, Occitanie - [Senior Software Engineer - Test Infrastructure](https://zerogtalent.com/space-jobs/loft-orbital/senior-software-engineer-test-infrastructure-e772a052-ec50-4578-8718-0a8b12ca55b6) — Toulouse, Occitanie --- *Source: [Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com), the job board for space, defense, AI, robotics and frontier-tech companies.*