Senior Central Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Metropolis•New York, NY

13d•$160,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

Metropolis is seeking a Senior Central Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to serve as a principal contributor to our central cloud platform infrastructure. In this role, you will architect, scale, and maintain highly resilient environments across multiple products while driving infrastructure modernization and legacy system integrations. The ideal candidate combines deep technical mastery of modern cloud-native systems with a strong collaborative mindset to interface across engineering teams, troubleshoot complex environments, and provide technical guidance to scale the team's overall competency.

Requirements

Hold a BS degree in Computer Science (or a relevant technical/engineering discipline) and 5+ years of hands-on experience, or equivalent professional experience (8+ years) working in high-growth cloud environments
Demonstrate deep production-level technical experience using AWS, Terraform, Atmos, and Python (or equivalent automation language - Bash/Go)
Demonstrate hands-on expertise with a modern observability stack (Datadog or equivalent: APM/distributed tracing, logs, metrics, RUM), including defining SLOs/SLIs and managing monitors-as-code
Leverage production experience with service mesh and L7 proxies (Envoy/Istio) and Kubernetes ingress in high-throughput request paths
Utilize advanced operational knowledge of Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, and overall container orchestration
Apply strong secrets-management and rotation practices (Infisical, Vault, or AWS Secrets Manager) in a PCI/SOC2 context
Showcase hands-on experience working with managed streaming data infrastructure via AWS MSK (Kafka) alongside various SQL and NoSQL AWS managed database solutions, including Amazon Aurora
Maintain a strong understanding of cloud networking architecture, security protocols, and firewalls
Exhibit expert competency managing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux (and Windows where applicable) server environments
Use excellent written and verbal communication skills to translate complex infrastructure concepts into clear, actionable technical documentation

Nice To Haves

Possess previous experience working inside innovative, high-growth tech start-ups or fast-paced corporate engineering environments

Responsibilities

Architect, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure environments across multiple company products
Design and manage infrastructure modernization initiatives (CI/CD, IaC, K8s, AI, etc) and lead the complex integration of legacy or established systems into modern, cloud-native environments
Craft comprehensive disaster recovery strategies and engineer production-grade technical solutions to safeguard system uptime
Serve as a technical focal point for troubleshooting, system deep-dives, and resolving infrastructure bottlenecks across both Linux and Windows operating systems
Ensure global cloud environments continuously meet and exceed stringent security guidelines and technical compliance frameworks, specifically PCI and SOC2
Lead incident response and root-cause analysis, and champion blameless postmortems and error-budget discipline across the team
Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior and mid-level engineers, helping to scale the infrastructure team's overall technical competency