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Apex manufactures satellite buses at scale for the commercial aerospace industry, combining software, vertical integration, and hardware designed for manufacturing. The company's spacecraft enable earth observation, communications, and other critical applications.
The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will architect, deploy, automate, and operate Apex's cloud-based and hybrid infrastructure across AWS GovCloud and Microsoft Azure. This role is central to defining cloud standards, enforcing governance controls, optimizing cloud spend, and accelerating the organization's cloud adoption strategy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, deploy, and manage complete cloud infrastructure from the ground up, with primary focus on AWS GovCloud and Microsoft Azure
- Design and implement secure, scalable, highly available cloud environments using IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or similar tools
- Automate cloud provisioning, configuration, deployments, monitoring, and operational tasks
- Develop scripts and automation using Python and similar programming languages
- Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure issues involving compute, storage, networking, identity, security, applications, and connectivity
- Monitor cloud environments for performance, availability, security, and reliability; respond to infrastructure incidents
- Design and maintain cloud networking, including VPCs/VNets, subnets, routing, VPNs, firewalls, security groups, and private connectivity
- Implement cloud security, identity, access controls, encryption, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery solutions
- Lead or participate in cloud infrastructure projects from design through deployment and completion
- Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and infrastructure standards
- Collaborate with Cloud Infrastructure Security Engineer on cloud environment solutions
The role requires full-time, on-site work at Apex's Playa Vista office in Los Angeles. Apex is a fast-growing startup that has raised over $500M in funding and offers equity, comprehensive healthcare (100% company-paid medical, dental, vision), 15+ days vacation, 10 paid holidays, 401(k) matching, 8 weeks paid parental leave, catered lunch, and a collaborative office environment.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Cloud Computing, or related technical field
- 5–7 years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or related technical discipline
- 3+ years of hands-on production experience with AWS and/or Azure, with significant AWS GovCloud experience preferred
- In-depth knowledge of cloud computing and cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
- In-depth hands-on experience with AWS GovCloud and Microsoft Azure
- Demonstrated ability to build complete cloud environments from scratch, particularly within AWS GovCloud
- Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, networking, security, identity, storage, compute, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery
- Advanced Infrastructure as Code experience; Terraform strongly preferred (CloudFormation, Bicep, Pulumi also beneficial)
- Strong automation and scripting skills using Python or similar languages
- Ability to investigate complex issues, identify root causes, and develop multiple viable solutions
- Understanding of CI/CD, version control, automation pipelines, and DevOps practices
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and complete technical projects on schedule
- Strong technical documentation and communication skills
- Must be a US Citizen (ITAR requirement)
- Must be willing to work full-time on-site at Playa Vista office
