On-Site Infrastructure Engineer – LA or Detroit

Nox Metals; Ferndale (MI); On-site; USD 112,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Nox Metals

Company-paid medical, dental, and视ion

Vision insurance

Job summary

Nox Metals is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to own and secure the systems that connect our applications, data, and factory operations across Los Angeles and Detroit. You will automate, troubleshoot, and improve reliability in a high-growth, industrial setting.

Role spans cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, identity, security, and incident response. You will work closely with engineers and factory teams to reduce failure points and maintain runbooks and documentation.

Qualifications

• Must be a strong troubleshooter across applications, cloud systems, networks, and devices.
• Security-minded without hindering operations.
• Comfortable automating work through code.
• Disciplined about change management, monitoring, and recovery.
• Calm and methodical during incidents.
• Clear in documentation and communication.
• Willing to work with engineers and factory teams.
• Root-cause mentality; focus on long-term fixes.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate reliable cloud infrastructure and deployment systems
• Improve CI/CD, observability, alerting, backups, and disaster recovery
• Manage identity, access, secrets, endpoints, and core security controls
• Support reliable connectivity across offices, factories, applications, and equipment
• Automate infrastructure and configuration wherever practical
• Lead incident response and write clear follow-up actions
• Partner with application engineers to improve performance and reliability
• Reduce single points of failure and undocumented dependencies
• Maintain practical documentation and runbooks
• Evaluate vendors and tooling based on security, reliability, and cost

Skills

Troubleshooting

Security-minded

Automation

Documentation

Incident response

Communication

Change management

Factory collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

PostgreSQL

Job description

Nox Metals is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to own and secure the systems that connect our applications, data, and factory operations across Los Angeles and Detroit. You will automate, troubleshoot, and improve reliability in a high-growth, industrial setting.

Role spans cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, identity, security, and incident response. You will work closely with engineers and factory teams to reduce failure points and maintain runbooks and documentation.