Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About Nominal

Nominal is building the connected test and operations platform powering the world's most advanced hardware systems, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next‑generation defense programs. Our platform gives hardware engineering teams a single place to ingest data, analyze performance, automate test execution, and collaborate across every phase of development, so they can move faster without sacrificing safety or precision. We're a fast‑moving team that owns problems end‑to‑end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.

As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll optimize CI/CD pipelines, streamline developer workflows, and ensure consistent, reliable environments across cloud and on‑prem systems. Your work directly accelerates product development, improves deployment reliability, and empowers engineers to move fast without sacrificing safety or precision.

• Empower engineering velocity:
  Ensure our growing engineering team can move quickly and safely by building and improving our Dev Ops and cloud infrastructure systems. You’ll focus on cloud infrastructure while having the flexibility to contribute to on‑prem deployment systems or traditional software engineering.
• Optimize and scale:
  Own the systems for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure, refining our CI/CD pipelines, and improving developer experience. Your work will directly enhance developer environment consistency, accelerate build times, and simplify service bootstrapping.
• Manage tradeoffs:
  Understand the tensions between effort vs value, short‑term vs long‑term growth, and any others that may arise.
• Solve & streamline:
  See an issue? You’re on it, with the autonomy to fix problems fast and keep our technology ahead of the curve.

• Proven engineering expertise:
  Minimum of 4+ years of experience developing, deploying, and monitoring infrastructure for high‑scale distributed systems or complex tools.
• Technical sharpshooter:
  Intellectual curiosity to solve complex problems, think in systems, and focus on details.
• Dynamic leader & team player:
  Humility, eagerness to learn, empathy; natural at leading and lifting others; solves problems.
• Project maestro:
  Proven track record in turning technical concepts into reality and managing the full cycle from planning to deployment.
• Ability to travel 1‑2 times a month to be on‑site with our customers.

• AWS cloud infrastructure (required), Azure (nice‑to‑have).
• Kubernetes:
  Deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting applications.
• CI/CD:
  Designing and building pipelines with Git Hub Actions or similar.
• Infrastructure as Code:
  Crossplane, Terraform, or similar.
• Observability:
  Datadog, Prometheus (metrics collection, dashboarding, alerting).
• Scripting and development:
  Bash, Python, and/or Go.

• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Unlimited PTO and sick leave.
• Free lunch, snacks, and coffee.
• Professional Development Stipend.
• In‑office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend.
• Annual company retreat.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

The base pay range for this role is $160,000 – $230,000 per year.