Team Lead - Cloud Infrastructure (Aerospace)

Location: Golden, CO, US; onsite

Salary: USD 190,000–255,000 per year

Company

hirify.global builds, launches, and operates reliable, shareable satellites and provides end-to-end missions for governments, companies, and research institutions.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a cloud infrastructure engineering team while running standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and sync meetings.
• Define the team mission, vision, goals, and cloud infrastructure strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Oversee secure, scalable, cost-effective multi-cloud solutions across AWS, GCP, and Azure for satellite operations.
• Champion DevOps/SRE practices, Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, observability, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Establish incident management, disaster recovery, monitoring, alerting, reliability, security, and cost-optimization practices.
• Partner with Software Engineering, Security, Satellite Operations, and Mission teams on mission-critical ground infrastructure and architecture.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading and scaling high-performing cloud infrastructure or SRE teams.
• Experience running team ceremonies and applying Agile practices, including delivering complex infrastructure projects in fast-paced environments.
• Strong expertise in public cloud platforms and cloud-native technologies; AWS and GCP are preferred.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, including Terraform; Kubernetes and container orchestration; and CI/CD tools and pipelines such as GitLab CI and ArgoCD.
• Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
• Strong automation and scripting background using Python, Go, or similar technologies, with modern DevOps practices.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product management, and leadership.
• Experience managing cloud security and compliance considerations.

Nice to have

• Experience in aerospace, defense, critical infrastructure, or another highly regulated industry.
• FinOps experience with cloud cost visibility and optimization strategies.
• Hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure management experience.
• Experience with Satellite Operations, Mission Planning, or Space Systems Engineering.
• Familiarity with GitOps methodologies, including ArgoCD or Flux.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee and dependent medical, dental, and vision insurance options are fully company-paid.
• FSA and HSA accounts, including an employer HSA contribution, plus employer-paid life, AD&D, short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Flexible vacation and sick leave, 12 paid holidays, and fully paid parental leave: 14 weeks for primary caregivers and 10 weeks for secondary caregivers.
• 401(k), equity options, fertility and family-forming benefits, catered lunches, snacks, off-sites, and social events.
• International collaboration with teams in France and relocation assistance when applicable.

Hiring process

• Attach a copy of the resume in English for review by hiring staff across the international offices.