Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
$130,000–$171,000 year
HybridBoulder, Colorado, United States
Job Summary
Lead analysis of AWS spend across platform-owned infrastructure and developer workloads to identify cost optimization opportunities that reduce spend without sacrificing reliability. Support migration of existing workloads onto the internal developer platform while investigating and resolving platform issues raised by software developers and IT/Security engineers. Perform regular maintenance and improvements across platform services, including building code libraries and integrations for observability using tools like Grafana, Alloy, Mimir, and OpenSearch. Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, and application teams to improve platform reliability and developer productivity on AWS EKS.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three business days per week in the office
- Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role
Desired Qualifications
- 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
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