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Nominal · 5 hours ago

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Los Angeles, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$160K/yr - $230K/yr

4+ years exp

Nominal is building the software infrastructure powering advanced hardware systems for top-tier commercial and defense customers. As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will optimize CI/CD pipelines, streamline developer workflows, and ensure reliable environments across cloud and on-prem systems, directly accelerating product development and improving deployment reliability.

Information TechnologySaaSSoftware

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Empower engineering velocity: Ensure our growing engineering team can move quickly and safely by building and improving our DevOps and cloud infrastructure systems

Optimize and scale: Own the systems for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure, refining our CI/CD pipelines, and improving developer experience

Manage tradeoffs: Understand the tensions between effort vs value, short-term vs long-term growth, and any others that may arise

Solve & streamline: See an issue? You’re on it, with the autonomy to fix problems fast and keep our technology ahead of the curve

Qualification

AWSKubernetesCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeObservability toolsBashPythonGoAzure

Required

Proven engineering expertise: You've been in the trenches of software engineering (minimum of 4+ YOE), with firsthand experience developing, deploying, and monitoring infrastructure for high-scale distributed systems or complex tools

Technical sharpshooter: Your intellectual curiosity drives you to solve complex problems. You think in systems and see the big picture, yet you're all about nailing the details

Dynamic leader & team player: With a mix of humility, eagerness to learn, and empathy, you're a natural at leading and lifting those around you. You don't just spot problems; you solve them

Project Maestro: You've got a solid track record in turning technical concepts into reality and managing the full cycle from planning to deployment

Ability to travel 1-2 times a month to be on-site with our customers

AWS cloud infrastructure (required)

Kubernetes: Deploying, scaling, and 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