Cloud Infrastructure Engineer: Scale, Reliability & Automation

People Culture Talent; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

People Culture Talent partners with venture-backed technology companies to build resilient teams through infrastructure expertise. We seek an Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure that supports engineering at scale.

You will improve reliability, performance, and efficiency of production systems, develop internal platforms, and advance CI/CD, observability, and incident-response tooling while collaborating across security, data, and product teams.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production infrastructure at meaningful scale.
• Strong knowledge of modern cloud environments and infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, containers, orchestration, CI/CD, observability, or related tooling.
• Strong software engineering and automation skills.
• An understanding of distributed systems, networking, reliability, and production operations.
• A pragmatic approach to balancing reliability, scalability, developer experience, and cost.
• Strong ownership and an interest in solving foundational technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud and production infrastructure.
• Improve the reliability, availability, performance, and efficiency of production systems.
• Build internal platforms and tooling that improve developer productivity and deployment velocity.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and incident-response systems.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Partner with application, security, data, and product engineering teams on infrastructure requirements.
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks as products and engineering organizations scale.
• Help establish infrastructure architecture, standards, and operational best practices.

Skills

Distributed systems

Networking

Automation

Ownership

Problem solving

Tools

IaC

Containers

Orchestration

CI/CD

Observability

Monitoring

Incident response

Cloud platforms

Job description

People Culture Talent partners with venture-backed technology companies to build resilient teams through infrastructure expertise. We seek an Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure that supports engineering at scale.

You will improve reliability, performance, and efficiency of production systems, develop internal platforms, and advance CI/CD, observability, and incident-response tooling while collaborating across security, data, and product teams.