Senior Infrastructure Engineer

We are looking to hire a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our team.

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Manage and continuously improve production Kubernetes environments.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, and CI/CD practices.
• Improve the reliability, performance, resilience, and observability of VALR’s platform.
• Automate infrastructure operations and eliminate repetitive manual processes.
• Participate in the on-call rotation, respond to production incidents, and contribute to post-incident reviews.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, security, and deployment issues.
• Apply security best practices across infrastructure, access controls, and secrets management.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Security teams to support reliable and secure software delivery.
• Improve infrastructure standards, documentation, and processes while providing technical guidance to other team members.

• Extensive experience working in infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or a related field.
• Strong experience with at least one major public cloud platform, such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure.
• Extensive hands-on experience running and supporting Kubernetes in production.
• Strong understanding of Docker and container-based environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes templating and configuration tools such as Helm and Kustomize.
• Practical experience with GitOps principles and tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Strong experience using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, GitHub, or similar platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and command-line tools.
• A solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, load balancing, proxies, and firewalls.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience participating in incident response and on-call processes using tools such as PagerDuty.
• Strong automation and scripting skills, particularly using Bash or similar languages.
• A good understanding of infrastructure security, including IAM, secrets management, access controls, and least-privilege principles.
• Proficiency in using AI tools such as Claude or Codex to support technical work, with an understanding of the security and verification considerations involved.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities, particularly within complex production environments.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of technical outcomes, and collaborate effectively across teams.