Senior AWS Engineer - Remote Eligible

Senior AWS Engineer

Satellogic is a vertically integrated Earth Observation satellite and data company. We design, manufacture, and operate our own fleet of satellites, the Aleph-1 constellation, which delivers high-frequency, high-resolution imagery.

Earth Observation imagery and data are key to monitoring change at scale, informing critical decisions, and ultimately helping solve the world's most pressing problems. Our mission is to democratize access to this information, making it affordable and available for those who need it across a wide range of industries, from climate monitoring and agriculture, to energy, infrastructure and many more. We want to do our part in building a world where every organization is prepared for the challenges of tomorrow.

With about 150 employees spanning 5 countries, Satellogic is a diverse group of purpose-driven professionals across software development, satellite engineering, operations, data science, manufacturing, and sales. We are excited to grow and welcome team members who push the limits, get things done, and never stop learning—all while being humble, honest, and empathetic.

About the Position

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AWS Engineer to join our Corporate IT team. This role is critical in supporting our cloud-first infrastructure strategy and will play a central role in managing, securing, and scaling our AWS environment. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise in AWS services, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation. In addition to maintaining our enterprise cloud infrastructure, you will also support the deployment and optimization of a web application currently under development and hosted entirely in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and cost-effective AWS infrastructure to support both internal IT systems and customer-facing applications.
• Collaborate with application development teams to provision environments and support continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud services, ensuring high availability, security, and performance.
• Develop and enforce AWS security best practices, including IAM policies, VPC configurations, logging, and monitoring.
• Ensure compliance with corporate IT policies and regulatory standards through appropriate configuration, patching, and governance.
• Lead cloud cost optimization efforts and monitor usage with tools such as AWS Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, or third-party platforms.
• Work closely with IT security to integrate AWS-native security tools such as AWS Config, GuardDuty, Inspector, and Security Hub.
• Maintain documentation for architecture, configurations, and standard operating procedures.
• Participating in on-call support as needed.

About You

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, with at least 3 years of hands-on AWS experience in a production environment.
• Expert-level understanding of core AWS services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53, etc.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code and automation tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and identity management in AWS.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (ECS, EKS, Docker).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience supporting a web application architecture in AWS.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and operational mindset.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Proficiency in Helm for managing deployments.

Preferred

• AWS Certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect – Professional, DevOps Engineer – Professional).
• Experience with serverless architectures and microservices.
• Familiarity with application-level performance monitoring (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch Metrics).
• Exposure to compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC, etc.).

What we value

• Familiar with infrastructure as code and automation
• Experience implementing network security best practices
• Strong collaboration skills, proactive mindset, and a drive to keep learning.

Location

This role can be performed remotely from locations within the UTC-5 to UTC+3 time zones, or preferably in a hybrid capacity from Montevideo or Buenos Aires. While our offices are located in Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Montevideo, North Carolina, and Barcelona, this position will require occasional travel to these locations.

Diversity Commitment

Satellogic values diversity and inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer. We are convinced that hiring and developing top talent from around the world for any given discipline will drive innovation, generate new solutions, and deliver a superior product to our global customer base. We work to build an equitable and inclusive environment in which all people, regardless of gender, race, religion, or background, can come together to do their best work. Please feel free to specify your pronouns following your name on the application.