Baremetal Infrastructure Engineer

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