Senior Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure and Networking

Skylo

. Own 24x7 cloud infrastructure health across Skylo’s hybrid production environment .

Posted 9/23/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $125,000 - $135,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in managing cloud infrastructure, particularly in Kubernetes and GCP environments, with a strong focus on observability, incident management, and operational readiness. Proficient in authoring runbooks and leading capacity planning while mentoring junior engineers in best practices.

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Kubernetes ExpertiseGCP Cloud OperationsPrometheus Observability StackPostgreSQL ManagementInfrastructure Provisioning with Terraform

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Hard Skills

KubernetesGCPPostgreSQLRedisPrometheusGrafanaTerraformAnsibleGitOpsCloud Infrastructure Engineering

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationMentoring

Tools & Technologies

GrafanaVictoriaMetricsOpenTelemetryArgoCDHelmLokiELKPub/Sub

Certifications & Qualifications

CKACKSAWS Solutions Architect ProfessionalRed Hat Certified Architect

Industry Keywords

Site Reliability Engineering24x7 EnvironmentCloud OperationsObservabilityCapacity Planning

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSCloudFluxGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesNode.jsOpenStackPostgresPrometheusPythonRedisTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own 24x7 cloud infrastructure health across Skylo’s hybrid production environment
Operate GCP public cloud and on-premise private cloud infrastructure
Monitor and triage infrastructure alarms using OSS dashboards, Grafana/VictoriaMetrics, GCP Cloud Monitoring, and Loki
Execute runbooks for GKE node recovery, pod eviction/rescheduling, PVC repair, database failover, Prometheus WAL recovery, ArgoCD drift remediation, and certificate rotation
Own the observability pipeline, including Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and alert routing
Maintain PostgreSQL replication, backups, restores, failover testing, query performance, and Redis operations
Ensure log aggregation pipeline health using Loki or ELK
Partner with Network Implementation on infrastructure changes and operational readiness
Serve as L3 escalation authority for Cloud Infrastructure incidents
Lead troubleshooting bridges and diagnose Kubernetes, storage, network, database, and GitOps failures
Participate in the global 24x7 on-call rotation
Define and maintain SLOs, track error budgets, reduce toil, and lead capacity planning
Own infrastructure root-cause analyses and post-incident action items
Author and maintain Cloud Infrastructure runbooks and SOPs
Validate operational readiness for infrastructure expansions, upgrades, and hardware deployments
Represent Cloud Infrastructure in architecture reviews and collaborate with NRE, security, platform engineering, and automation teams
Mentor Senior NREs in Kubernetes, storage, database reliability, observability, and escalation practices
Oversee ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform, and Ansible changes affecting production

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of infrastructure engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud operations in a production 24x7 environment
Direct on-call ownership for Kubernetes-at-scale environments
Deep Kubernetes expertise, including multi-cluster operations, node pool management, RBAC, network policies, PVCs, CSI drivers, CRD/operator patterns, and production cluster upgrades
Hands-on experience operating public cloud and on-premise/private cloud infrastructure
Production observability stack ownership using Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry, and Pub/Sub or equivalent
PostgreSQL streaming replication, backup/restore, failover procedures, and performance tuning
Redis cluster operations and persistence management
Production GitOps experience with ArgoCD or Flux CD
Helm chart authorship and version management
Terraform or Ansible for infrastructure provisioning
SRE fundamentals including SLO/SLI/SLA definition, error budget management, toil measurement, capacity planning, and on-call rotation design
Container runtime debugging, kernel-level performance analysis, storage subsystem troubleshooting, and network packet flow understanding
Ability to author runbooks executable independently by less-experienced engineers under incident pressure
Strong written and verbal communication for RCA documents, structured engineering escalations, and MNO-facing infrastructure summaries
Preferred: telecom or NTN workload experience
Preferred: Ceph, Rook, or equivalent distributed storage expertise
Preferred: KubeVirt, Harvester, or OpenStack experience
Preferred: BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, software-defined networking, and hardware load balancers
Preferred: Go or Python development
Preferred: FinOps experience
Preferred certifications: CKA, CKS, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, or Red Hat Certified Architect
Legally authorized to work in the U.S.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Stock option-based equity program
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
Retirement plan
Monthly wellness allowance
Monthly education reimbursement
Generous time-off policy
Paid holidays
Opportunity to temporarily work abroad
Access to a world-class team across software, hardware, chipsets, telecom, satellite, and network virtualization
Flexible approach to work
Inclusive and diverse workplace culture