Deployment Systems Engineer
Deployment Systems Engineer responsible for deploying and supporting Nominal's platform in restricted, on-prem, and air-gapped environments. Requires hands-on Linux/Kubernetes expertise, frequent customer-site travel, and TS clearance eligibility.
About the job
Deploy & Support
- Deploy Nominal in restricted and self-hosted environments.
- Own runbooks, deployment documentation, and customer onboarding.
- Troubleshoot issues in the field.
Work Onsite
- Travel to customer locations including test ranges, manufacturing facilities, and air-gapped data centers.
- Partner directly with customer engineering and IT teams to ensure successful deployments.
Scale Deployments
- Build repeatable deployment patterns across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
- Reduce complexity and improve reliability as we grow.
Drive Priorities
- Identify the highest-impact infrastructure and deployment challenges.
- Surface risks early and help shape roadmap priorities.
Improve the Platform
- Build observability, automation, and infrastructure tooling that make deployments easier to operate and support.
Make Sound Tradeoffs
- Balance speed, reliability, flexibility, and long-term maintainability when making technical decisions.
Own Outcomes
- Take initiative, solve problems, and know when to escalate.
- Move quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality.
Requirements
- Experience operating production infrastructure, distributed systems, or developer platforms.
- Comfortable in Linux environments, the command line, Kubernetes, and troubleshooting independently.
- Hands-on experience deploying and supporting systems in on-prem, edge, or restricted environments.
- Experience with government or classified environments is a plus.
- Familiarity with security, compliance, and accreditation requirements, including auditability, system hardening, and regulated deployments.
- Able to work directly with customers on complex technical issues, build trust, and navigate difficult tradeoffs while maintaining clear boundaries and expectations.
- Proven ability to turn operational challenges into repeatable processes, documentation, and deployment standards that scale.
- Able to think holistically about infrastructure while digging into root causes and technical details when needed.
- Proactive, resourceful, and comfortable working across teams to drive outcomes in ambiguous environments.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS Clearance.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with government or classified environments.
Skills
- Unix/Linux systems
- Kubernetes / kubectl
- MinIO / S3 Object Storage
- Postgres
- Grafana / Prometheus / Loki / Mimir observability stack
- Infrastructure as code
Compensation
The base pay range for this role is $120,000 – $230,000 per year.
Skills
Linux, Kubernetes, Kubectl, Minio, S3, Postgres, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, Infrastructure As Code
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