Team Lead - Cloud Infrastructure

The role

Lead, mentor and grow a team of cloud infrastructure engineers. Own daily team operations and set the team's strategy for secure, scalable and cost-effective multi-cloud systems that support satellite operations.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor and grow a team of cloud infrastructure engineers
• Run daily team operations: standups, sprint planning, retrospectives and sync meetings
• Foster technical excellence, continuous learning, psychological safety and collaboration
• Define the team's mission, vision and goals in line with company objectives
• Champion a DevOps/SRE mindset across the company
• Set and drive the cloud infrastructure strategy
• Oversee design, implementation and maintenance of multi-cloud solutions (AWS, GCP, Azure) for satellite operations
• Champion Infrastructure-as-Code, cloud automation, observability and CI/CD pipelines
• Establish best practices for incident management, disaster recovery, monitoring and alerting
• Lead cloud cost optimization efforts

Required qualifications

• Proven leadership experience managing and scaling high-performing cloud infrastructure or SRE teams
• Hands-on experience running team ceremonies and Agile practices
• Agile project management experience delivering complex infrastructure projects in a fast-paced environment
• Strong expertise in public cloud platforms and cloud-native technologies
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, ArgoCD)
• Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)
• Strong background in automation and scripting (Python, Go, or similar) and modern DevOps practices
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Experience managing cloud security and compliance considerations

Nice to have

• Experience in a highly regulated industry (e.g., aerospace, defense, critical infrastructure)
• FinOps experience managing cloud cost visibility and optimization
• 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)

Benefits

• Equity
• Up to 35 days of paid time off (vacations and RTT) and flexible working hours
• Health and life insurance
• Lunch vouchers
• Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado and Toulouse
• Company and team off-sites and events
• Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable

Before you apply

• Attach a copy of your resume in English

About the company

Loft provides governments, companies and research institutions with a fast, reliable way to deploy missions in orbit. Founded in 2017, it has flown more than 30 missions and is growing its fleet toward 30 satellites by 2027.