Job Description

About the Role:

Orbitworks is revolutionizing access to space by building reliable, shareable satellites that drastically reduce the time and complexity traditionally required to get to orbit. We operate satellites, fly customer payloads, and handle entire missions from end-to-end. Orbitworks is a joint venture between Marlan Space (UAE-based) and Loft Orbital.

As a

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

on our Infrastructure Team, you'll play a pivotal role in maintaining and scaling our ground segment infrastructure. You'll collaborate across development, operations, and IT to ensure the integration, delivery, and reliability of services that support our test infrastructure and our space operations on Earth and in orbit.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and help build modern automated space infrastructure. This is not your typical SRE role, we apply DevOps principles even to spacecraft control.

Responsibilities

+ Collaborate with developers, test engineers and satellite operators to foster a strong

SatDevOps culture

. + Design and roll-out cloud solutions for our

testing and operations infrastructure

. Find the best trade-offs between existing and additional cloud resources to

scale

and help Orbitworks achieve its mission.
+ Design, implement, and maintain

scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure

in a hybrid cloud environment.
+ Improve our

developer and test engineers experience

by building better tools, workflows, and environment to streamline
+ Lead efforts to automate and optimize systems, including

CI/CD pipelines

,

infrastructure provisioning (IaC)

, and deployment workflows for test on the ground and operations in space.
+ Own and evolve our

observability stack

(metrics, tracing, logs) to improve usability and performance. Grafana-centric ecosystems are a plus.
+ Implement and advocate for

best practices

in software reliability, fault tolerance, and performance tuning.
+ Proactively

identify, investigate, and resolve system reliability issues

, performing root cause analyses and implementing long-term fixes.
+ Partner with teams to design and operate

Software Defined Network (SDN)

solutions.
+ Contribute to a

collaborative and inclusive team culture

where respectful debate and continuous learning are celebrated.
+ Initially,

handle and manage the link between cloud and network/software/hardware

infrastructure. Assume I&T (Information technology) responsibilities as much as necessary to start with.

Must Haves:

+ Strong experience with

public cloud infrastructure

, ideally GCP. + Deep expertise in

Kubernetes

, architecture, deployment, ops, and resource optimization.
+ Demonstrated ability to

design and build scalable, highly available systems

.
+ Familiarity with

Software Defined Networking (SDN)

concepts and tools.
+ Experience implementing and maintaining

observability stacks

(Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, etc.).
+ Proficiency in at least one backend language:

Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, or Java

.
+ Deep understanding and hands-on experience with

DevOps practices

: CI/CD, infrastructure as code (IaC), and automation.
+ Proven track record of working in

fast-paced, high-growth technical environments

.
+ Strong

networking knowledge

(TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, secure networks).
+ Deep experience in

Systems Administration.

+ Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently with a

proactive, results-driven mindset

.
+ Strong

communication

skills; thrives in a multicultural, cross-functional team.

Nice to Have:

+ Hands-on experience with

GitOps frameworks

(ArgoCD, FluxCD). + Interest or experience in

FinOps

and

cost-optimized architectures

.
+ Understanding of

orchestration in resource-constrained environments

, like space systems.
+ Knowledge of

infrastructure as code

frameworks (Terraform, Ansible or similar)
+ Knowledge of

systems engineering tools

and SDLC governance.
+

Cybersecurity

Awareness.
+ Familiarity with

security practices

, vulnerability scanning, threat detection, risk mitigation.

Orbitworks' mission is to make space simple for organizations that want to deploy physical and virtual missions to space. Building on Loft Orbital's heritage, Orbitworks will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass-manufacture satellites. Orbitworks aims to manufacture tens of satellites annually and operates out of a 50,000-square-foot facility in Abu Dhabi.