We9re looking for a
Deployment Systems Specialist to join our team building high-scale, mission-critical infrastructure for advanced hardware systems. You9ll tackle high-scale, mission-critical problems, deploy and monitor complex distributed systems, and own projects end-to-end, all while collaborating with a team of top engineers. This role includes hands-on work in air-gapped environments, frequent travel to end-user sites, and requires U.S. TS Clearance eligibility.
About the role- Deploy & support: Deploy Nominal in restricted and self-hosted environments. Own runbooks, deployment documentation, and customer onboarding while troubleshooting issues in the field.
- Work onsite: Travel to customer locations including test ranges, manufacturing facilities, and air-gapped data centers. Partner directly with customer engineering and IT teams to ensure successful deployments.
- Scale deployments: Build repeatable deployment patterns across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. Reduce complexity and improve reliability as we grow.
- Drive priorities: Identify the highest-impact infrastructure and deployment challenges. Surface risks early and help shape roadmap priorities.
- Improve the platform: Build observability, automation, and infrastructure tooling that make deployments easier to operate and support.
- Make sound tradeoffs: Balance speed, reliability, flexibility, and long-term maintainability when making technical decisions.
- Own outcomes: Take initiative, solve problems, and know when to escalate. Move quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality.
We9re Looking For- Infrastructure and deployment expertise: Experience operating production infrastructure, distributed systems, or developer platforms. Comfortable in Linux environments, the command line, Kubernetes, and troubleshooting independently.
- On-prem experience: Hands-on experience deploying and supporting systems in on-prem, edge, or restricted environments. Experience with government or classified environments is a plus.
- Compliance awareness: Familiarity with security, compliance, and accreditation requirements, including auditability, system hardening, and regulated deployments.
- Customer-facing skills: Able to work directly with customers on complex technical issues, build trust, and navigate difficult tradeoffs while maintaining clear boundaries and expectations.
- Process builder: Proven ability to turn operational challenges into repeatable processes, documentation, and deployment standards that scale.
- Systems mindset: Able to think holistically about infrastructure while digging into root causes and technical details when needed.
- Ownership and execution: Proactive, resourceful, and comfortable working across teams to drive outcomes in ambiguous environments.
- Security requirements: Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS Clearance.
Skills that supercharge us- Unix/Linux systems
- Kubernetes / Kuecutl
- MinIO / S3 Object Storage
- Postgres
- Grafana / Prometheus / Loki / Mimir observability stack
- Infrastructure as code
Benefits/Perks- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
- Professional Development Stipend
- In-office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend
- Annual company retreat
CompensationThe base pay range for this role is $120,000 - $230,000 per year.
