Lead Platform Infrastructure Engineer
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Design and own the Infrastructure-as-Code baseline enabling dedicated single-tenant or on-premises deployment with minimal per-customer effort. Stand up and operate Docker, Kubernetes, ingress, load balancing, and the CI/CD pipeline while building the secrets, certificate, and observability stack. Define environment promotion, release automation, and rollback procedures to make deployments repeatable. Partner with Security on encryption, network isolation, and hardening aligned to regulatory guidance. Right-size GPU and inference infrastructure as workloads grow and establish on-call, SLOs, and capacity planning practices. Document deployment architecture and operating procedures to support customer due diligence and audit readiness.
Required Qualifications
- 8–12+ years building and operating production infrastructure
- 2+ years leading or setting direction for a platform or infrastructure function
- Demonstrated experience shipping and operating software in customer-managed or on-premises environments
- Deep, hands-on Docker and Kubernetes in production
- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals
- Fluency with IaC and configuration management as a discipline
- A track record of making infrastructure reliable, secure, and automated rather than hand-tuned
- Strong familiarity with on-prem / bare-metal
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in the financial services industry or a regulated technology environment
- Prior experience deploying software into regulated or air-gapped customer environments (banking, healthcare, or government)
- Experience with Kubernetes network policy, namespace isolation, and multi-environment rollout strategies
- GPU scheduling and cost optimization for model inference
- Cloud (AWS) experience useful for tooling and CI/CD pipelines
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