# Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

**Company:** [Nominal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nominal)
**Location:** New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Austin, TX
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $160k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, Crossplane, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Prometheus, Python, Go
**Posted:** 2026-03-05

> Cloud Infrastructure Engineer optimizes CI/CD pipelines, manages AWS and Kubernetes-based cloud systems, and ensures reliable developer environments while contributing to on-prem deployments. Requires 4+ years experience with IaC tools like Terraform and observability stacks.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Empower engineering velocity by building and improving DevOps and cloud infrastructure systems, focusing on cloud while contributing to on-prem or software engineering.
- Optimize and scale systems for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure, refining CI/CD pipelines, and improving developer experience.
- Manage tradeoffs between effort vs value, short-term vs long-term growth.
- Solve and streamline issues with autonomy to fix problems fast.

## Requirements
- Proven engineering expertise with minimum 4+ years of experience developing, deploying, and monitoring infrastructure for high-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure (required), Azure (nice-to-have).
- Kubernetes: deploying, scaling, troubleshooting applications.
- CI/CD: designing and building pipelines with GitHub Actions or similar.
- Infrastructure as Code: Crossplane, Terraform, or similar.
- Observability: Datadog, Prometheus (metrics collection, dashboarding, alerting).
- Scripting and development: Bash, Python, and/or Go.
- Ability to travel 1-2 times a month to be on-site with customers.

## Compensation
Base pay range: $160,000 – $230,000 per year.

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