Cloud Application Engineer

About Skylo

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 across four continents, with more than 50 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 in Mountain View, CA or Espoo, Finland where we are onsite 3 days a week in in office.

Summary Of How You Will Impact Skylo

Skylo is hiring a Cloud Application Engineer to help fulfill Skylo’s mission of making satellite connectivity available to all. The individual will be responsible for implementing and supporting a set of satellite-terrestrial hybrid cloud based network software infrastructure. These services enable Skylo’s customers to onboard and manage their connected devices with a cloud-based platform that analyzes and visualizes their data transmitted across this network. This is a terrific opportunity for a candidate who wants to make a highly visible impact in the dynamic environment of an early-stage startup focused on an exploding market segment.

How You Will Contribute

• Install, maintain, and support all aspects of our Cloud infrastructure across all environments in our production network
• Ensure this infrastructure is highly available for our customers and internal developers.
• Continuously optimize the infrastructure from a redundancy and cost prospective
• Implement continuous delivery systems to enable simpler, faster, automated and more robust build and release processes
• Run the network design, documentation, capacity planning, costing and resource optimization for various cloud based applications 

What We Look For

• 5+ years of Systems Engineering/SRE experience in deploying and managing large, GCP based environments focusing on automation
• Experience in GCP cloud redundancy and cloud optimization
• Solid understanding of the UNIX/Linux operating systems
• Strong expertise in Networking (TCP/IP, VPN, DNS, DHCP, SMTP) and related networking infrastructure
• Good experience with Database administration
• Good to fair understanding of cellular/wireless/telecom control, management, and data transport infrastructure
• Strong programming/scripting  experience in either Bash, Python, Go, Ruby on a Unix/Linux platform, using GIT for source control
• A high degree of organization and be very detail-oriented
• Excellent leadership, verbal, and written communication skills

Bonus Points

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or a related technical field
• Fundamental Computer Science knowledge, including experience in applying common algorithms, data structures and design patterns
• Experience with SAAS, DevOps tools, processes and culture 
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and a proven documentation methodology
• Expert knowledge in Linux system operation, configuration, troubleshooting, and automation.Experience with VPN and network security infrastructure
• Experience in production monitoring and metrics reporting
• Experience working with cloud-native infrastructure on public/private clouds.
• Experience with Cloud Providers: AWS, GCP, and products like VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, ELB and Route53, Compute Engine, Cloud VPN, Google DNS, Cloudflare
• Experience with config management tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Saltstack
• Experience with automation tools like Jenkins and how they enable the CICD pipeline
• Experience with virtualization, hypervisors, and containers like VMWare, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Strong work experience on Google Cloud Platform and managing cloud resources
• GCP architectural principles and services such as IAM, VPC, MIG-VM, GKE, Artifact Repository, Cloud DNS, Load Balance etc.
• Automating Cloud deployment and configuration using Teraform or Ansible scripting
• Experience in capacity planning, costing and resource optimization
• Ability to manage access policies, resource permission and applying security policies to cloud network
• Experience in managing GKE, detecting cluster failure, configuration for alerts and cluster recovery
• Multi Cloud RDMS Database and Redis Database deployment, installation, operations and maintenances
• Configuration of GCP infrastructure for logging and Alerts
• Experience with C-RAN/V-RAN implementations would be a major plus
• Excellent analytical skills and a proactive approach to problem-solving 
• Results-driven with strong triage skills
• Ability to work well with people around the globe and be both highly motivated and motivating

What We Offer

With employees working across three continents, Skylo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. Our worldwide and inclusive culture encourages a flexible approach to work, and we also offer an attractive range benefits such as: 

• 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, livesoftware-defined 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

EEO Statement
Skylo is an equal-opportunity employer and we celebrate diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, parent or caregiver status, political affiliation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability.