# Senior Central Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

**Company:** [Metropolis](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/metropolis)
**Location:** New York, NY, Seattle, WA, Los Angeles, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $160k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Terraform, Python, Kubernetes, EKS, Helm, Datadog, Envoy, Istio, Kafka, Amazon Aurora, Linux, Windows, CI/CD, Iac
**Posted:** 2026-06-10

> Senior engineer responsible for architecting and maintaining scalable AWS cloud infrastructure, leading modernization initiatives, and ensuring PCI/SOC2 compliance. Requires 5+ years experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, observability, and production cloud systems.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

- Architect, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure environments across multiple company products
- Design and manage infrastructure modernization initiatives (CI/CD, IaC, K8s, AI, etc) and lead the complex integration of legacy or established systems into modern, cloud-native environments
- Craft comprehensive disaster recovery strategies and engineer production-grade technical solutions to safeguard system uptime
- Serve as a technical focal point for troubleshooting, system deep-dives, and resolving infrastructure bottlenecks across both Linux and Windows operating systems
- Ensure global cloud environments continuously meet and exceed stringent security guidelines and technical compliance frameworks, specifically PCI and SOC2
- Lead incident response and root-cause analysis, and champion blameless postmortems and error-budget discipline across the team
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior and mid-level engineers, helping to scale the infrastructure team's overall technical competency

## What we're looking for

- Hold a BS degree in Computer Science (or a relevant technical/engineering discipline) and 5+ years of hands-on experience, or equivalent professional experience (8+ years) working in high-growth cloud environments
- Demonstrate deep production-level technical experience using AWS, Terraform, Atmos, and Python (or equivalent automation language - Bash/Go)
- Demonstrate hands-on expertise with a modern observability stack (Datadog or equivalent: APM/distributed tracing, logs, metrics, RUM), including defining SLOs/SLIs and managing monitors-as-code
- Leverage production experience with service mesh and L7 proxies (Envoy/Istio) and Kubernetes ingress in high-throughput request paths
- Utilize advanced operational knowledge of Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, and overall container orchestration
- Apply strong secrets-management and rotation practices (Infisical, Vault, or AWS Secrets Manager) in a PCI/SOC2 context
- Showcase hands-on experience working with managed streaming data infrastructure via AWS MSK (Kafka) alongside various SQL and NoSQL AWS managed database solutions, including Amazon Aurora
- Maintain a strong understanding of cloud networking architecture, security protocols, and firewalls
- Exhibit expert competency managing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux (and Windows where applicable) server environments
- Use excellent written and verbal communication skills to translate complex infrastructure concepts into clear, actionable technical documentation

## Nice to have

- Previous experience working inside innovative, high-growth tech start-ups or fast-paced corporate engineering environments

## Compensation

- Anticipated base salary: $160,000 - $200,000 USD annually
- Access to healthcare benefits, 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, stock option plan, bonus plans

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