Infrastructure Engineer

Job description

About Northwood: Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company focused on connecting space and Earth. The world runs on space. Space will run on Northwood. Our global ground network ensures that missions ranging from national security, to global connectivity, to disaster response can unlock their full potential and operate every day without fail. Infrastructure Engineer Core individual contributor role on the Northwood Infrastructure team. Operates defined scope independently with a spike in at least one area of depth. Responsibilities: Own and operate one or more components of the Northwood infrastructure stack (CI/CD, app platform, cloud/IaC, networking, observability, security tooling). Take a defined scope and execute without ongoing oversight. Build and maintain infrastructure as code. Default to Terraform, Helm, and GitOps. Carry on-call for the infra stack. Handle the majority of incidents to resolution independently. Run post-incident reviews for incidents you owned. Partner with security engineering and compliance on controls implementation in your areas - Vault policies, IAM boundaries, SIEM coverage, evidence collection. Treat toil as a design signal. When manual wo...