Senior Platform DevOps Engineer (Level 3)

About the role

Sophia Space is building high‑performance, energy‑efficient computing systems for orbit. The Platform DevOps Engineer will design, implement, and continuously improve the automation and infrastructure that power our orbital compute platform, focusing on configuration management, bootstrapping, reset workflows, and resiliency for distributed systems running on NVIDIA Jetson hardware.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Ansible‑based automation for platform configuration and lifecycle management.
• Enhance bootstrapping, reset, and recovery processes for highly available K3s clusters.
• Create infrastructure patterns that increase reliability, consistency, and predictability across deployments.
• Identify and mitigate configuration drift, operational complexity, and failure‑prone behaviors.
• Improve observability and diagnosability of runtime services and infrastructure components.
• Support the development of self‑healing, declarative, and resilient infrastructure capabilities.
• Collaborate with platform, systems, and software engineers to align infrastructure with product and operational requirements.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and infrastructure standards.
• Assist with validation, troubleshooting, and root‑cause analysis of distributed systems.

Required profile

• Minimum 3 years of experience in DevOps or platform engineering.
• Ability to work autonomously in constrained environments where physical access is limited.
• U.S. Person status required due to ITAR/EAR export‑control regulations.

Required skills

• Ansible
• K3s
• NVIDIA Jetson hardware
• Linux operating systems