Site Reliability Engineer (Network)

<div><strong>Wanna join the adventure?</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1866" data-local-id="5db0f7bfcc5c">As a <strong>Site Reliability Engineer</strong> with strong networking skills in our Cloud Infrastructure (SRE) team, you help the team own the networks that keep Loft running: cloud networking, VPN and site-to-site connectivity, segmentation, and routing across our offices, test equipment, and ground stations. You keep them reliable, observable, and secure as we scale. You coordinate with IT on the network components that interface with the physical infrastructure used by employees. You coordinate with the Test-Infrastructure team to ensure our test equipment is securely accessible.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2441" data-local-id="6b212210078e">You’ll work the way an SRE team works: defining reliability in measurable terms (SLOs for connectivity and ground-station availability), instrumenting the systems that prove it, managing the network as code, and automating away toil so on-call load doesn’t grow with the fleet.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2720" data-local-id="0da4f8912513">Beyond the network, you’ll help the SRE team across its broader scope by participating in all the daily work just like a regular SRE: platform reliability and expansion, incident response, planning and user support.</p> </div><br><strong>About this role:</strong><br> <li>Participate in the design and implement Loft’s <strong data-renderer-mark="true">network architecture</strong>; cloud networking, VPN/site-to-site, segmentation, and routing across offices, ground stations, and test equipment</li> <li>Tighten the <strong data-renderer-mark="true">network security posture</strong>: segmentation, access, and connectivity hardening</li> <li>Manage the <strong data-renderer-mark="true">network as code</strong>: <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span data-testid="definition-highlighter">IaC</span></span> provisioning, CI/CD, and GitOps</li> <li>Define <strong data-renderer-mark="true">SLOs</strong> for connectivity and ground-station availability, and own the <strong data-renderer-mark="true">observability</strong> (metrics, logs, tracing) that measures them; Grafana-centric stacks a plus</li> <li>Investigate and resolve reliability issues with root-cause analysis and durable fixes; <strong data-renderer-mark="true">reduce operational toil through automation</strong></li> <li>Contribute to the SRE team’s broader reliability and incident-response work, fostering the <strong data-renderer-mark="true">SatDevOps culture</strong> that power Loft’s <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span data-testid="definition-highlighter">DNA</span></span></li> <br><strong>Must haves:</strong><br> <li>4–5 years in <strong data-renderer-mark="true">network engineering</strong>, with deep hands-on networking: routing, VPN/site-to-site, segmentation, DNS, firewalling</li> <li><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Hands-on Software-Defined Networking</strong>: comfortable managing networks programmatically / as code rather than appliance-by-appliance (everything we run is <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">IaC</span>)</li> <li>Strong <strong data-renderer-mark="true">public-cloud networking</strong> experience, id