Baremetal Infrastructure Engineer

Overview As Baremetal Infrastructure Engineer, you will own self-hosted deployments and drive reliability for Nominal’s mission-critical platform. You’ll work at the intersection of DevOps, SRE, and customer infrastructure to enable secure, scalable, on-prem deployments for demanding customers. You’ll improve provisioning, observability, and deployment processes, accelerating customer success while reducing support burden. This role offers the chance to shape our self-hosted, regulated deployment strategy and work closely with customers and internal teams. Compensation / Benefits100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insuranceUnlimited PTO and sick leaveFree lunch, snacks, and coffeeProfessional Development StipendIn-office hardware lab with a $250 project stipendAnnual company retreat ResponsibilitiesServe as technical expert for customer-hosted and air-gapped deploymentsTravel onsite to support critical customer implementationsTroubleshoot Linux, networking, Kubernetes, and infrastructure in productionCollaborate with customer IT/infrastructure/security teams to gather requirementsBuild and improve deployment tooling, automation, and operational processesImprove reliability, observability, and maintainability of self-hosted infrastructureDevelop deployment documentation, runbooks, and troubleshooting guidesShape Nominal's long-term strategy for self-hosted and regulated deployments Key requirementsStrong Linux systems expertiseExperience operating and troubleshooting production infrastructureBackground in DevOps/SRE/Platform/Infrastructure EngineeringAbility to debug complex multi-layer systems independentlyComfort with customer-facing work and external stakeholdersWillingness to travel for customer deploymentsStrong ownership mentality in ambiguous environmentsCustomer-facing communicationOwnership and accountabilityAbility to work in ambiguityKubernetes in production environmentsGitOps tooling (Flux, Helm, Kustomize)Infrastructure as Code