Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
About The Position
Spire Global is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineer to join their team. This role focuses on supporting their internal developer platform built on AWS. It's a hands-on position for individuals with a few years of experience looking to grow in platform engineering, cloud operations, observability, and developer experience. The engineer will partner with Infrastructure, Security, IT, and software development teams to enhance platform operations, streamline software delivery, and optimize AWS spending. This role offers exposure to both infrastructure and developer workflows, with opportunities to impact cloud costs, platform reliability, and developer productivity.
Requirements
- 2–3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or a similar role
- Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes, especially EKS
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines
- Comfortable troubleshooting distributed systems and production issues
- Working knowledge of observability tooling and concepts such as metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
- Ability to write code or libraries in one or more general-purpose languages to support developer workflows
- Good communication skills and a customer-focused mindset
- Comfortable collaborating frequently with a variety of infrastructure, IT, security and application teams
Nice To Haves
- Experience with cost optimization in AWS or Kubernetes environments
- Experience with ArgoCD or similar GitOps tools
- Experience with Grafana ecosystem tooling
- Familiarity with policy and admission control tools like Gatekeeper
- Experience with Kubernetes networking or traffic policy tools like Calico
- Experience supporting internal developer platforms or platform product teams
- Experience with Open-Telemetry or application instrumentation patterns
- Certification as an AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Certified CloudOps Engineer is an asset
Responsibilities
- Lead analysis of AWS spend across both platform-owned infrastructure and developer team workloads
- Identify cost optimization opportunities and help implement changes that reduce spend without sacrificing reliability or developer experience
- Support migration of existing workloads onto our newest internal developer platform
- Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve platform issues raised by internal customers, primarily software developers and IT/Security engineers
- Perform regular maintenance, upgrades, and improvements across platform services and tooling
- Help build and maintain code libraries, templates, and integrations that make it easier for application teams to instrument and observe their systems
- Work with platform observability and delivery tooling across: AWS EKS, AWS networking (VPC, subnets, TGW, load balancers, routing) and security (Security Groups, NACLs), GitHub and GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, JFrog Artifactory and X-Ray, Grafana Enterprise, Alloy, Mimir, Tempo, OpenSearch, Karpenter, Calico, Gatekeeper, OpenCost
Benefits
- Vacation, sick, and personal time off
- Optional medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage
- 401(K) plan
- Health and wellness reimbursement program
- Participation in Spire’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP)
- Launch Attendance
- Generous Time Off Policy
- Education Assistance Program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Family Leave
- Fitness Reimbursement
- Employee Referral Program
- Healthy snacks & beverages in every office
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
