Remote Cloud Infra Engineer - Terraform + Kubernetes

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 185,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Health, dental, vision, and life保险

Vacation 20 days/year

Wellbeing stipend $200/month

401K with 6% employer match

Workstation budget

AI learning budget

Job summary

Ladders is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to join the team that builds a reliable, scalable platform with strong security and operational excellence. You will manage cloud environments across AWS and GCP, improve developer experience, and shape observability and incident response practices.

You will own Terraform-based IaC, lead GitOps workflows, and collaborate with engineering and operations to ensure cost-efficient, compliant infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering
• Proficient with Terraform as the primary IaC tool
• Strong Kubernetes expertise with production cluster experience
• AWS skills are a must; GCP familiarity is a plus
• Fluent in GitOps and CI/CD practices
• Experience with observability stacks and incident response processes
• Security and compliance knowledge, particularly with SOC 2

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP
• Scale single-tenant deployments effectively
• Build observability and incident response practices
• Drive compliance and security operations
• Manage infrastructure cost and capacity efficiently
• Enhance developer experience with CI/CD improvements
• Contribute to backend systems where infrastructure meets application

Skills

Cloud architecture

GitOps

CI/CD

Observability

SOC 2 compliance

Security practices

SRE mindset

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Ladders is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to join the team that builds a reliable, scalable platform with strong security and operational excellence. You will manage cloud environments across AWS and GCP, improve developer experience, and shape observability and incident response practices.

You will own Terraform-based IaC, lead GitOps workflows, and collaborate with engineering and operations to ensure cost-efficient, compliant infrastructure.