Staff Cloud Infra Engineer

The role

You will own a significant area of the cloud platform including Kubernetes and IaC foundations, reliability, and security controls. You will build, design, and operate infrastructure across cloud regions and edge sites.

What you will do

• Operate and improve multi-cluster, multi-region Kubernetes platform
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code
• Extend the developer platform with golden paths and progressive delivery
• Own CI/CD pipelines for workloads
• Instrument services against SLOs using metrics, logs, and tracing
• Participate in on-call and lead incidents
• Drive down toil through automation
• Contribute to capacity planning, failure-domain design, and DR testing
• Implement and maintain platform security controls
• Automate compliance evidence

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE roles
• Strong production Kubernetes experience
• Hands-on depth in AWS or GCP
• Solid infrastructure as code practice (Terraform or equivalent)
• Proficiency in at least one systems or automation language (Go or Python)
• Direct production reliability ownership
• Working knowledge of infrastructure security: IAM, secrets, network policy, container hardening
• Clear written communication

Nice to have

• Exposure to a second cloud, or to hybrid and edge infrastructure
• Telecom or network infrastructure exposure — 5G core, cloud-native network functions, or carrier-grade availability requirements
• Experience in managing databases and applications with High Availability of 99.999%
• Edge or on-premises infrastructure alongside public cloud
• Compliance-adjacent environments (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or carrier security requirements)
• FinOps Cost engineering

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages including a stock option based equity program
• Comprehensive benefits plans
• Monthly allowances for wellness and education reimbursement
• Generous time off policy
• Holidays
• Opportunity to temporarily work abroad

About the company

Skylo has pioneered a standards-based approach to satellite connectivity, connecting smartphones and IoT devices directly to satellites. Their direct-to-device service is live on millions of activated devices across five continents.