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You will design, deploy, and maintain infrastructure on AWS and SecNumCloud-qualified cloud services so teams can work securely and reliably across both environments. This hands-on, high-ownership role sits at the intersection of aerospace and modern cloud engineering, with a strong focus on security, sovereignty, and compliance requirements.\nYou will work on-site in France and collaborate closely with engineering teams to translate their needs into resilient, secure, and well-documented infrastructure.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, deploy, and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS and SecNumCloud-qualified cloud environments, including managed Kubernetes, compute, networking, storage, and managed database services.\n\nDefine and maintain a consistent architecture across AWS and SecNumCloud, including identity, networking, and secrets management, to keep environments comparable and portable where needed.\n\nBuild and maintain infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) so all environments are reproducible and version-controlled.\n\nImplement and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate infrastructure and application builds, testing, and deployment.\n\nManage container platforms and orchestration, including Kubernetes cluster upgrades, networking, RBAC, and workload scheduling.\n\nSet up and maintain observability (metrics, logging, alerting) to detect and resolve issues before they affect engineering or operations.\n\nEnforce security and compliance best practices, including IAM policies, network segmentation, encryption at rest and in transit, key management, and vulnerability patching.\n\nSupport audits and compliance evidence collection for SecNumCloud and other applicable frameworks.\n\nDefine backup, retention, and disaster recovery strategies for critical data and services.\n\nCollaborate with engineering teams to understand their requirements and deliver reliable infrastructure solutions.\n\nWhat we would love to see from you\n3+ years of experience in a cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering role.\n\nDeep hands-on experience with AWS or GCP, including compute, networking, storage, and managed database services.\n\nSolid experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Terragrunt) and version control workflows.\n\nExperience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).\n\nStrong understanding of networking concepts: VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, DNS, and VPNs.\n\nWorking knowledge of containers and orchestration, ideally Kubernetes.\n\nExperience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or OpenTelemetry.\n\nWillingness to learn sovereign and high-assurance cloud security requirements, and to apply them to cloud environments. Prior exposure is a plus but not required.\n\nA security-first mindset with practical knowledge of IAM, secrets management, encryption, and compliance frameworks.\n\nFluent English. Working knowledge of French is not required but is considered an advantage.\n\nAbility to work effectively in a multilingual team.\n\nNice to have\nExperience in the aerospace, defense, or mission-critical systems domain.\n\nExperience with multi-region or disaster recovery architectures.\n\nExperience with hybrid or multi-cloud architectures across AWS and sovereign cloud providers.\n\nAWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer - Professional) or equivalent.\n\nExposure to ISO 27001, FedRAMP, or other security certification environments.\n\nWhy you should join us!\nWhat makes us special here at The Exploration Company and why we think you will enjoy working here is:\nWe’re Agile - we make decisions fast whilst keeping our goals and systems in mind\n\nWe’re Open and Collaborative - we are transparent about risks and obstacles, so that we can cooperate to overcome them\n\nWe have a lot of Fun - we refuel our energy knowing we are democratising space. 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