Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Nominal develops a unified platform for hardware testing and operations, supporting sectors like aerospace, defense, and autonomous systems. This role focuses on maintaining and scaling the cloud infrastructure that allows our engineering team to deploy complex hardware-software solutions with high reliability.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Manage and scale cloud infrastructure to support high-performance engineering workflows.
• Refine CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment speed and developer environment consistency.
• Balance immediate project needs with long-term infrastructure scalability and maintenance.
• Address technical bottlenecks across cloud and on-premise deployment systems.
• Travel to customer sites approximately once or twice per month.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated history of building, deploying, and monitoring infrastructure for distributed systems.
• Ability to manage projects from initial planning through final deployment.
• Must meet ITAR requirements: U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
• Ability to travel 1-2 times per month for customer-facing site visits.

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure cloud environments.

Skills & tools

• AWS cloud infrastructure
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Crossplane, or similar)
• Observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus)
• Scripting and development (Bash, Python, or Go)

Practical notes

• Compensation: $160,000 to $230,000 per year.
• Benefits: 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Perks: Unlimited PTO and sick leave, daily free lunch and snacks, professional development stipend, and an in-office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend.
• Additional: Participation in annual company retreats.