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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.\nRole\nCore individual contributor role on the Northwood Infrastructure team. Operates defined scope independently with a spike in at least one area of depth.\nResponsibilities\nOwn 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.\n\nBuild and maintain infrastructure as code. Default to Terraform, Helm, and GitOps.\n\nCarry on-call for the infra stack. Handle the majority of incidents to resolution independently.\n\nRun post-incident reviews for incidents you owned.\n\nPartner with security engineering and compliance on controls implementation in your areas - Vault policies, IAM boundaries, SIEM coverage, evidence collection.\n\nTreat toil as a design signal. When manual work repeats, automate it or fix the underlying system.\n\nWrite and maintain runbooks, design docs, and component documentation. Keep them current with the system.\n\nCollaborate across infra, product engineering, and ground station operations on cross-cutting work.\n\nBasic Qualifications\n3-5 years of production infrastructure experience (SRE, DevOps, platform, network, or systems engineering).\n\nWorking competence across: Linux, networking fundamentals, AWS or equivalent cloud, infrastructure as code (Terraform), containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling. Not expert in all - competent enough to operate and contribute.\n\nDemonstrated ownership of a production system end-to-end: design, implementation, operation.\n\nOn-call experience in a production environment with measurable reliability outcomes.\n\nComfortable in code (Python, Go, or similar) for automation, tooling, and integration work.\n\nStrong technical writing - design docs, runbooks, post-mortems.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nStrong background in one or more of the following. We're hiring generalists with a spike, not specialists - depth in one area weighs heavily, but not at the cost of breadth across the basics.\n\nNetworking - enterprise (FortiGate, switching), site/ground station, or core (TGW, WireGuard, BGP, IPsec)\n\nSecurity engineering - Vault, identity (Okta, IAM), SIEM operations, hardening\n\nCompliance partnership - implementing technical controls for CMMC, FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, ITAR\n\nObservability at scale - VictoriaMetrics or Prometheus, Grafana, alerting design, log pipelines (Vector, Loki)\n\nApp platform - EKS at scale, on-prem k3s, ArgoCD and GitOps patterns\n\nCI/CD and developer experience - pipeline design, scanning and linting, release engineering\n\nCloud architecture - multi-account AWS, GovCloud, Cloudflare\n\nOn-prem and hardware-adjacent ops - bringing up systems in remote or austere environments, ground stations, edge sites\n\nAdditional Requirements:\nThis position requires successfully obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret Security Clearance as a condition of employment. While the clearance may not be immediately necessary upon hire, we encourage you to initiate the application process promptly upon accepting this offer. Your ability to secure the necessary clearance is essential for fulfilling key responsibilities of the role. Should you be unable to obtain it, Northwood Space reserves the right to modify or terminate your employment to align with optional needs.\n\nAdditional Information:\nIf you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.\nTo conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.\nNorthwood Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Northwood Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4873,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Satellite Communications","Ground Systems"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-04-22T23:56:29Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":9,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.327,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":177,"expected_fill_days":46,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/northwoodspace-infrastructure-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/northwoodspace-infrastructure-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T16:18:33Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":22383,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6433},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6433"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnorthwoodspace-infrastructure-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnorthwoodspace-infrastructure-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnorthwoodspace-infrastructure-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/northwoodspace-infrastructure-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnorthwoodspace-infrastructure-engineer"}]}