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.
About the job
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
Linux, Kubernetes, DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure As Code, GitOps, Networking, Bare Metal Provisioning, Ceph, Ebpf
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