# Infrastructure Engineer (Platform)

About Northwood: Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company bringing the benefits of space to the masses through advanced communications technology. We are building a global network of phased array ground stations that enable real-time, reliable communication for satellite missions such as national security, global connectivity, and disaster response. With a vertically integrated approach, Northwood designs, builds, and rapidly deploys scalable systems that power the next generation of space missions. If you like solving complex challenges and seeing your work deployed around the world with real impact, Northwood is the place to do it. Role Northwood runs a global network of phased array ground stations supported by cloud infrastructure; clusters that run mission software, identity systems every service depends on, the observability stack that tells operators what is happening at every site, and the IaC that defines all of it. The Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud owns and operates that environment. This is a core individual contributor role on the Infrastructure team. You take a defined scope, run it independently, and bring real depth in cloud infrastructure. You'll work di

- **Id**: 3787839
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/northwood-space-infrastructure-engineer-platform>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Torrance, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T00:04:22Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T09:44:31Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5181
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Communications, Ground Systems

## Company

- **Id**: 6433
- **Name**: Northwood Space
- **Domain**: northwoodspace.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/northwoodspace>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.6
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 55
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 125000
- **Max**: 140000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 140000

## Technologies

- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Cloudflare** — Optional: yes
- **CMMC** — Optional: yes
- **DNS** — Optional: yes
- **FedRAMP** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Loki** — Optional: yes
- **NIST 800-171** — Optional: yes
- **NIST 800-53** — Optional: yes
- **Okta** — Optional: yes
- **PKI** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes
- **VictoriaMetrics** — Optional: yes
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T04:27:37Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 55
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 140000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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