Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Team: Software Engineering

Location: Boulder, CO

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

Job Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain a fleet of on-premise Linux servers (and a few Windows VMs) to ensure reliable and performant operation of the quantum computing environment.
• Design and implement automated workflows for managing and scaling cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
• Build and optimize monitoring, alerting, and performance metrics systems to support both development and production environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines and improve deployment efficiency.

Experience & Education

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent on-the-job experience.
• 5+ years of post-degree professional experience maintaining large scale distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of cloud deployment and infrastructure management using Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Experience with on-premise hardware services, including virtualization and containerization management solutions such as Proxmox VE, Docker and Podman.
• Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions.
• Ability to optimize and tune on-premise hardware for performance and low latency using tools such as perf, systemd-analyze, iostat, and tuning profiles.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing metrics, monitoring, and alerting pipelines using Datadog, Grafana, or other observability tools.
• Skilled in architecting infrastructure workflows with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or Kubernetes.

Nice to Haves

• Building and scaling a developer operations team, including workflow automation, access management, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Having managed and optimized databases either in the cloud or on-site.
• Familiarity and experience implementing security best practices.
• Having set up or configured networks, both physical and virtual.
• Interfacing with and controlling cameras, motors, lasers, and other third party devices.