Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Mission Control & Ground Segment)

ReOrbit is looking for a Senior Cloud Infra Engineer to own and scale our Azure cloud infrastructure from our Bangalore office.

As our Senior Cloud Infra Engineer, you will be the technical owner of ReOrbit’s cloud platform, working closely with our teams in Helsinki and Bangalore as part of our two-hub operating model. You will take over work currently delivered by an external DevOps and infrastructure consultant, with structured knowledge transfer in your first months.

You will be responsible for the architecture, automation, security and reliability of our cloud environment. As the role matures, you will grow into owning the cloud infrastructure, automation and reliability engineering for our Mission Control and Ground Segment.

It’s an exciting chance to join a dynamic start-up, with the opportunity to make a real impact, to reach our goal of pushing the boundaries of space data transfer

Responsibilities

• Own Azure platform architecture, provisioning, governance, and lifecycle management of ReOrbit's DEV, INT, VAL, and OPS environments, ensuring traceability and appropriate separation between operational and corporate systems.

• Manage network infrastructure design, security groups, VPNs, connectivity, secure operational access, privileged access, MFA, and audit logging.

• Own infrastructure-as-code (Terraform / ARM ) for repeatable, auditable deployments.

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.

• Drive infrastructure automation, including provisioning, configuration management and self-healing systems.

• Implement and own monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability across cloud infrastructure and mission-supporting operational environments.

• Own availability, redundancy, failover, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning; lead incident response and root-cause analysis for business-critical and mission-critical infrastructure.

• Implement security controls across corporate and operational cloud infrastructure in partnership with the Head of Security, including network segregation and controlled remote access.

• Document architecture, configuration baselines, runbooks, and operational procedures; lead knowledge transfer from the current external DevOps consultant and coordinate with vendors.

• Own and evolve the cloud infrastructure supporting Mission Control and Ground Segment systems, including mission databases, telemetry-processing services, command-delivery services, automation, and reliability engineering.

• Support Ground Segment and Operations Readiness Reviews, mission rehearsals, simulations, and operational validation activities.

• Maintain infrastructure integrations between cloud services, Mission Control systems, ground station providers, identity services, monitoring platforms, and operational toolchains.

• Provide infrastructure support during live mission operations, spacecraft anomalies, LEOP, and commissioning, including participation in the agreed on-call and escalation arrangements.

Skills and Requirements

• 8–10 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud or Infrastructure engineering roles.

• Deep hands-on Microsoft Azure experience (compute, networking, storage, IAM).

• CI/CD pipeline design and infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform / ARM / Bicep).

• Strong networking and security fundamentals (VPNs, segmentation, access control).

• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus or equivalent).

• Experience owning production infrastructure reliability and incident response.

• Experience owning highly available production infrastructure, including operational reliability, controlled change, incident response, and recovery.

• Fluent English.

Nice to have

• Experience in aerospace, satellite operations, defence, telecommunications, SCADA, or another mission-critical operational environment..

• Kubernetes or other container orchestration experience.

• Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-400, AZ-500 or equivalent).

• Experience transitioning work from external consultants or vendors into an internal team.

• Scripting ability (Python, PowerShell or Bash) for automation.

• Exposure to Mission Control Systems, TT&C, Ground Segment, SCADA, operational technology, or other real-time command-and-control systems.

• Experience scaling infrastructure ownership from start-up to enterprise.

Working mode

• Location: Bangalore, India, working from the office with one work-from-home day per week.

• On-call support may be required outside working hours. Please make sure you are comfortable with this before applying.

What does ReOrbit do?

ReOrbit builds the foundation for the next generation of space applications by transforming satellites into truly intelligent, interconnected platforms, defined by software. Our satellite design philosophy revolves around the idea that satellites must network, communicate with each other and thus improve mission efficiency. How can this be achieved? Thanks to a flexible software-first architecture, where all these aspects are dealt with upfront in the mission concept, as integrated functionalities.

ReOrbit’s top-notch team of software engineers and system architects develop in-house software, procure hardware from the best-in-class suppliers, and seamlessly integrate the components to create flexible and secure satellites. Today, we are a rapidly growing company building a very strong multidisciplinary team to support our activities. We are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with a subsidiary in Bariloche, Argentina.

Working at ReOrbit

At ReOrbit, we are focused on building a strong team as we believe nothing can be accomplished without innovative, humble and curious minds working together on a common goal. We’re all about fostering an inclusive, dynamic environment where equality and diversity are our strength. 

We offer

• Challenging but rewarding environment – you will thrive if you are always reflecting on how to make things better. Your ideas will be heard.

• Ambitious and supportive network of people, who are motivated to change the space industry, bringing expertise from both classic and new space .

• Benefits such as lunch vouchers, events, parties, occupational health care and additional health insurance - but most importantly a possibility to be a part of a unique and diverse team, connected by similar mindset and sense of humor. 

• We like to spend time together! You can choose activities whichever is to your liking – runOrbit, climbOrbit; become ping pong or board games champion.

• We support relocation and integration into Finnish society, find some experiences about relocation here

Please, submit your application as soon as possible - we are excited to hear from you and can’t wait to discover your unique skills and experiences.

For agencies: We do not accept unsolicited CVs for our open vacancies. Any CV sent to our team unsolicited will reserve us the right to pursue a candidate without obligation to the sender. All candidate submissions must be conducted through our official channels and in accordance with our terms of engagement.