Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer Software

Senior Cloud Dev Ops Engineer Design and scale cloud infrastructure, implement robust Dev Ops practices across AWS and Kubernetes

Location:

Torrance, California

Compensation: $165, USD / year

Torrance, California, United States

At Valar Atomics, we're redefining what's possible in energy. Our mission is to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable—unlocking abundant energy for industry, hydrogen, and next-generation manufacturing. We are a team of builders, engineers, and operators who believe nuclear energy should be fast to deploy, factory-made, and built for the real world. Our first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah will demonstrate how advanced nuclear systems and fuel fabrication can power the future.

Joining Valar Atomics means becoming part of a company where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level.

Valar Atomics is looking for an experienced Cloud Dev Ops Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure primarily in AWS, with additional support for workloads in Azure. The ideal candidate has hands‑on expertise with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipeline design, Git Hub Enterprise, and Terraform, and thrives in a fast‑paced environment where automation and reliability are top priorities.

You'll work closely with software engineering, security, and platform teams to streamline deployments, improve system observability, and drive infrastructure‑as‑code best practices across the organization.

This position is fully on‑site at our Torrance, CA location. Relocation assistance is not available.

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, EKS, etc.), with secondary support for Azure services
• Build, manage, and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS and/or AKS) for containerized workloads, including scaling, networking, and security configurations
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes across multiple environments
• Manage source control workflows, branch policies, and repository administration
• Write, maintain, and review Terraform modules to provision and manage infrastructure as code across cloud providers
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure system reliability and rapid incident response (e.g., Cloud Watch, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor)
• Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment velocity, reduce lead time, and support Git Ops practices
• Enforce and improve cloud security best practices, including IAM policies, secrets management, and compliance standards
• Troubleshoot production issues across cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines
• Participate in on‑call rotation and incident response as needed
• Document infrastructure architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures
• Continuously evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and processes to improve system reliability and developer experience

• 5+ years of experience in a Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering role
• Strong hands‑on experience with core AWS services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS, Lambda, Cloud Formation, etc.)
• Working knowledge (AKS, Azure Dev Ops, VNets, Azure AD, etc.)
• Solid experience administering and troubleshooting clusters in production environments
• Proven experience building and maintaining pipelines (e.g., Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI, or similar)
• Hands‑on experience including repository management, branch protection, and access controls
• Strong proficiency for infrastructure‑as‑code, including module design and state management
• Proficiency in scripting languages such…