Staff Cloud Engineer - AWS

Skylo Technologies•Mountain View, CA

63d•Onsite

About The Position

Skylo is a global Non-Terrestrial Network service provider based in Mountain View, CA, offering a service that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites. Skylo’s direct-to-device service is now live on millions of activated devices across five continents, with more than 60 million square kilometers of coverage, in partnership with multiple satellite operators, mobile network operators (MNOs), Tier-1 chipset makers, and OEMs. Devices connected over satellite are managed and served by Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN, featuring a 3GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo provides anywhere, anytime connectivity solution that seamlessly roams between terrestrial and satellite networks. Our focus is on enabling connected services for people outdoors and connected workflows across three main verticals: mass-market consumer devices, automotive, and industrial IoT. This role is located Mountain View, CA where we are onsite 3 days a week in office. Summary Of How You Will Impact Skylo Skylo is hiring a Staff Cloud Engineer (AWS) to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our AWS-based cloud infrastructure. As a senior technical expert, you will shape our cloud architecture, drive automation, and ensure scalability, reliability, and security across our environments. This role requires deep AWS expertise, a passion for solving complex infrastructure challenges, and the ability to influence engineering direction while remaining hands-on.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, with at least 5+ focused on AWS.
Proven expertise with AWS core services (EC2, EKS/ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, Route 53).
Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation).
Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and service mesh architectures.
Deep understanding of cloud networking, security, and identity management.
Proficiency in scripting/automation (Python, Go, Bash).
Strong knowledge of observability tooling (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, etc.).
Excellent communication, mentorship, and cross-functional leadership skills.
AWS Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.

Nice To Haves

Experience with multi-account strategy and AWS Organizations.
Background in FinOps / cloud cost optimization.
Prior experience in regulated industries (fintech, telecom, healthcare).

Responsibilities

Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS architectures.
Define best practices for compute (EC2, ECS, EKS), storage (S3, EBS, EFS), and networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect).
Architect solutions for high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
Partner with application teams to design cloud-native solutions optimized for AWS.
Drive Infrastructure as Code initiatives (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation).
Automate provisioning, scaling, and configuration management.
Improve observability and operational efficiency through logging, monitoring, and alerting.
Lead performance tuning and capacity planning for critical workloads.
Embed AWS security best practices (IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub).
Partner with the security team to ensure compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR).
Implement zero-trust principles and least-privilege access controls.
Act as a technical leader and mentor for cloud and DevOps engineers.
Influence long-term cloud strategy, tooling, and architecture decisions.
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, security, and engineering teams.
Participate in design reviews, architecture boards, and technical roadmaps.

Benefits

Competitive compensation packages including a stock option based equity program
Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement plan
Monthly allowances for wellness and education reimbursement
A generous time off policy, holidays, and the opportunity to temporarily work abroad
Once in a lifetime opportunity to be a part of developing and running world’s first commercial, live direct-to-device satellite network and service
Access to world-class team and talent across tech domains: software, hardware, chipsets, telecom, satellite and network virtualization
Open, transparent, inclusive culture that blends the Silicon Valley, Nordic and South Asia characteristics

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