# Senior Central Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Hiring organization: [Metropolis Technologies](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/metropolis-technologies)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/0ad55a40-575b-4791-8839-46ab542a67dc

Listed on Metropolis Technologies's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Salary: 170000 – 225000 USD per year

## Summary

Metropolis is looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to architect and operate their central cloud platform supporting multiple products, with responsibility for modernization initiatives, disaster recovery, and technical leadership. This role suits someone who excels at designing resilient systems at scale and enjoys mentoring others across complex cloud environments.

_Our summary, not Metropolis Technologies's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Aurora, Amazon EKS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Bash (Scripting), Datadog, Go, HashiCorp Vault, Helm, Istio, Kubernetes, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Python, Terraform

## Required

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
- 5+ years hands-on cloud infrastructure experience (or 8+ years equivalent)
- Production-level experience with AWS, Terraform, Atmos, and Python or Bash/Go
- Hands-on expertise with modern observability stack (Datadog or equivalent) including SLOs/SLIs
- Production experience with service mesh and L7 proxies (Envoy/Istio) and Kubernetes ingress
- Advanced operational knowledge of Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, and container orchestration
- Secrets management and rotation practices (Infisical, Vault, AWS Secrets Manager) in PCI/SOC2 context
- Experience with managed streaming (AWS MSK/Kafka) and AWS managed databases including Aurora
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, security protocols, and firewalls
- Expert-level Linux and Windows server management and troubleshooting
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

## Nice to have

- Experience in high-growth tech startups or fast-paced corporate engineering environments

Apply on Metropolis Technologies's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/metropolis/jobs/7768753003