Baremetal Infrastructure Engineer

Nominal•Los Angeles, CA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Nominal is seeking a Baremetal Infrastructure Engineer to join their team. This role involves building high-scale, mission-critical infrastructure for advanced hardware systems. The engineer will be responsible for deploying Nominal's software to demanding customers, including USG customers in restricted environments. Key responsibilities include owning runbooks, building deployment collateral, and collaborating with customer hardware engineers and IT teams. The role is crucial for Nominal's self-hosted and on-prem deployments, balancing customer implementations, reliability improvements, FedRAMP readiness, and infrastructure modernization, especially in constrained environments. The ideal candidate will be an expert in Linux systems, bare metal infrastructure, and deployment reliability, driving internal improvements for repeatability, observability, and scalability. This position blends DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and customer-facing infrastructure, involving tasks such as debugging networking issues, building provisioning automation, improving Kubernetes upgrades, and implementing observability features.

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

Responsibilities

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