Senior Infrastructure Engineer
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure on GCP, focusing on CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and Terraform. This role requires a strong background in DevOps/SRE and a passion for building foundational systems in a fast-paced environment.
About the job
About the Role:
We're seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to play a key role in shaping and scaling our cloud infrastructure. You'll be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment workflows, ensuring system reliability and security, and supporting rapid development cycles. This is a hands-on role ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, high-impact environment and is excited to build foundational DevOps systems from the ground up. You'll work closely with engineering leadership to drive infrastructure decisions and enable product teams to ship faster with confidence. This person should reside in EST or CST locations.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Axion's cloud infrastructure on GCP, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security
- Own and evolve our Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform and Terraform infrastructure-as-code practices
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and deployment automation to help engineering teams ship with speed and confidence
- Establish and maintain observability across our stack — logging, metrics, alerting, and tracing — and lead incident response efforts
- Define and track SLOs and SLIs, driving a culture of reliability and continuous improvement
- Contribute to security hardening, compliance posture, and cost optimization across our cloud environment
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
- Deep hands-on experience with GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, or similar services)
- Strong proficiency with Kubernetes — cluster management, networking, scaling, and troubleshooting
- Solid Terraform experience — writing modular, reusable, production-grade infrastructure-as-code
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
- Strong background in observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent)
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a bias toward action
- Experience at a venture-backed startup preferred
- Must be based in the Eastern or Central time zones
Nice to Haves:
- Experience using agents to accelerate delivery
- Experience managing infrastructure for FedRAMP environments
What We Offer:
- Work with cutting-edge AI technology making a tangible impact in manufacturing
- Collaborative, mission-driven team and supportive leadership
- Generous time off
- Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits
- Lunch stipend
- … And much more
Skills
GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Sql, Pub/Sub
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