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Senior Central Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Metropolis Technologies · Seattle, WA · 3 wk ago
On-siteInformation Technology$170k/yrFull-time

About the role

The real world is the next frontier, and at Metropolis, we are creating the artificial intelligence to make it responsive. We are pioneering the Recognition Economy — a future where mundane repetition disappears and being known unlocks access, comfort and belonging everywhere you go. From transforming parking into a seamless drive-in, drive-out experience for millions of Members to expanding our intelligence layer across retail and hospitality, we are building a world that feels instinctive and magical. The future isn’t coming; it’s here, and we need builders, innovators and problem solvers to help us create it.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure environments across multiple company products
  • Design and manage infrastructure modernization initiatives (CI/CD, IaC, K8s, AI, etc) and lead the complex integration of legacy or established systems into modern, cloud-native environments
  • Craft comprehensive disaster recovery strategies and engineer production-grade technical solutions to safeguard system uptime
  • Serve as a technical focal point for troubleshooting, system deep-dives, and resolving infrastructure bottlenecks across both Linux and Windows operating systems
  • Ensure global cloud environments continuously meet and exceed stringent security guidelines and technical compliance frameworks, specifically PCI and SOC2
  • Lead incident response and root-cause analysis, and champion blameless postmortems and error-budget discipline across the team
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior and mid-level engineers, helping to scale the infrastructure team's overall technical competency

Requirements

  • Hold a BS degree in Computer Science (or a relevant technical/engineering discipline) and 5+ years of hands-on experience, or equivalent professional experience (8+ years) working in high-growth cloud environments
  • Demonstrate deep production-level technical experience using AWS, Terraform, Atmos, and Python (or equivalent automation language - Bash/Go)
  • Demonstrate hands-on expertise with a modern observability stack (Datadog or equivalent: APM/distributed tracing, logs, metrics, RUM), including defining SLOs/SLIs and managing monitors-as-code
  • Leverage production experience with service mesh and L7 proxies (Envoy/Istio) and Kubernetes ingress in high-throughput request paths
  • Utilize advanced operational knowledge of Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, and overall container orchestration
  • Apply strong secrets-management and rotation practices (Infisical, Vault, or AWS Secrets Manager) in a PCI/SOC2 context
  • Showcase hands-on experience working with managed streaming data infrastructure via AWS MSK (Kafka) alongside various SQL and NoSQL AWS managed database solutions, including Amazon Aurora
  • Maintain a strong understanding of cloud networking architecture, security protocols, and firewalls
  • Exhibit expert competency managing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux (and Windows where applicable) server environments

Qualifications

  • Use excellent written and verbal communication skills to translate complex infrastructure concepts into clear, actionable technical documentation

Skills

  • Expert in cloud-native systems
  • Strong collaborative mindset
  • Experience with AWS, Terraform, Atmos, Python, Datadog, Kubernetes, Envoy/Istio, Helm, Infisical, Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS MSK, Amazon Aurora, cloud networking, security protocols, and firewalls

Benefits

Metropolis offers a competitive base salary range of $170,000.00 USD to $225,000.00 USD annually, with the actual salary determined by a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and location. Additionally, Metropolis provides access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a lucrative stock option plan, and more.

Pay

The anticipated base salary for this position is $170,000.00 USD to $225,000.00 USD annually.

Schedule

Metropolis follows an office-first model, requiring employees to be on-site at least four days a week to foster organic interactions that spark creativity and connection.

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