Infrastructure Engineer

About this role

Northwood seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to own and operate critical components of their space communications infrastructure stack, including CI/CD, cloud platforms, networking, and security systems. You'll work independently on a defined scope, handle on-call responsibilities, and drive automation to reduce operational toil across a globally distributed satellite ground station network.

What you'll do

• Own and operate infrastructure components (CI/CD, app platform, cloud/IaC, networking, observability, security tooling)
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Helm, and GitOps patterns
• Carry on-call rotation and resolve majority of incidents independently
• Partner with security and compliance teams on controls implementation and policy management
• Automate repetitive manual work and address underlying system design issues
• Create and maintain runbooks, design documentation, and component guides

What they're looking for

• Linux and networking fundamentals
• AWS or equivalent cloud platform
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Kubernetes and containerization
• CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
• Observability and monitoring tools
• Python, Go, or similar scripting languages
• Technical writing (design docs, post-mortems, runbooks)