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NominalNominalNew York, NY

Baremetal Infrastructure Engineer

Deploy and support Nominal's self-hosted platform in customer environments including air-gapped and regulated sites. Own Linux, Kubernetes, and bare-metal infrastructure reliability while partnering directly with customer IT and security teams.

120k – 230k
On-site5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Serve as a technical expert for customer-hosted and air-gapped deployments
  • Travel onsite to support critical customer implementations when additional technical expertise is required
  • Troubleshoot Linux, networking, Kubernetes, and infrastructure issues in production environments
  • Partner directly with customer IT, infrastructure, and security teams to gather requirements and ensure successful deployments
  • Build and improve deployment tooling, automation, and operational processes
  • Improve reliability, observability, and maintainability across our self-hosted infrastructure
  • Develop deployment documentation, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides
  • Help shape Nominal's long-term strategy for self-hosted and regulated deployments

Requirements

  • Strong Linux systems expertise
  • Experience operating and troubleshooting production infrastructure
  • Background in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
  • Ability to independently debug complex systems across multiple layers of the stack
  • Comfort working directly with customers and external stakeholders
  • Willingness to travel for customer deployments
  • Strong ownership mentality and ability to operate in ambiguous environments

Nice-to-Haves

  • Active security clearance or ability and willingness to obtain and maintain one
  • Experience with Kubernetes in production environments
  • GitOps workflows and tooling (Flux, Helm, Kustomize, etc.)
  • Infrastructure as Code experience
  • Datacenter operations experience
  • Hardware procurement, provisioning, or lifecycle management
  • Networking expertise (routing, switching, troubleshooting, performance tuning)
  • Linux kernel, networking, or performance optimization experience
  • Security-focused infrastructure experience including TLS and certificate management
  • Experience supporting air-gapped, classified, or highly regulated environments

Skills

  • Bare Metal & Provisioning: PXE, IPMI, BMC, iLO / iDRAC, MaaS, Tinkerbell, Metal provisioning workflows
  • Systems: Linux internals, Kernel troubleshooting, NUMA, RDMA, SR-IOV, eBPF
  • Networking: BGP, Routing, Low-latency networking, NIC offloading, DPDK
  • Storage: Ceph, NVMe, Distributed storage systems
  • Infrastructure: Kubernetes, GitOps, Datacenter automation, Rack provisioning, Hardware orchestration, On-prem infrastructure operations

Benefits

  • 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO and sick leave
  • Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
  • Professional Development Stipend
  • In-office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend
  • Annual company retreat

Skills

LinuxKubernetesDevOpsSREInfrastructure As CodeGitOpsNetworkingBare Metal ProvisioningCephEbpf

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