Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Job summary

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer role is pivotal in evolving the foundational infrastructure layer behind ACRA, focusing on security, observability, and operational reliability. Responsibilities include designing and operating Kubernetes-based infrastructure, debugging production environments, and enhancing observability using technologies such as Kubernetes, Linux, and Terraform.

Qualifications

• strong experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or production systems engineering
• deep hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production
• strong understanding of Linux systems, containers, networking, storage, and distributed infrastructure
• strong networking fundamentals
• experience debugging difficult infrastructure issues
• experience with Kubernetes networking, CNI, service mesh, network policy, or secure service-to-service communication
• experience or strong working knowledge in at least one deep infrastructure area
• experience with infrastructure as code and GitOps workflows
• experience building reliable infrastructure for production environments
• comfortable working across cloud, on-premise, bare-metal, restricted, or customer-managed environments
• strong operational judgement
• strong ownership mindset
• clear communication skills
• comfortable working in a startup environment with ambiguity

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and improve Kubernetes-based infrastructure for ACRA
• Own core infrastructure plumbing across networking, storage, workload scheduling, service communication, ingress, egress, DNS, certificates, and cluster-level security
• Operate and debug production Kubernetes environments across GCP, on-premise, bare-metal, sovereign cloud, air-gapped, and customer-managed deployments
• Work on multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, cluster networking, network policy, service mesh, and secure service-to-service communication
• Operate and evolve distributed storage systems
• Build infrastructure automation that improves repeatability, reliability, and operational safety
• Improve observability across infrastructure layers
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues
• Contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and production readiness
• Define infrastructure standards, operational boundaries, security controls, and deployment patterns across the platform
• Work closely with engineering teams to make services easier to deploy, operate, monitor, and debug
• Contribute to the long-term technical direction of the DevOps department and the infrastructure foundations of ACRA

Skills

Relocation