Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer — Kubernetes & CI/CD

Axion; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous time off

Competitive compensation

Equity and benefits

Lunch stipend

Job summary

Axion is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to shape and scale cloud infrastructure. You will design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, ensure reliability and security, and support rapid development cycles.

This role requires strong ownership and a bias toward action, operating in EST or CST time zones. You will collaborate with engineering leadership to drive infrastructure decisions and enable product teams to ship faster with confidence.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience with GCP services.
• Strong Kubernetes expertise and Terraform experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Axion's cloud infra on GCP with emphasis on high availability and security.
• Own and evolve Kubernetes-based orchestration and Terraform IaC practices.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling for rapid delivery.
• Establish observability across the stack with logging, metrics, alerts, and tracing; lead incident response.
• Define and track SLOs/SLIs to drive reliability and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to security hardening, compliance posture, and cloud cost optimization.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Security

Startup experience

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Axion is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to shape and scale cloud infrastructure. You will design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, ensure reliability and security, and support rapid development cycles.

This role requires strong ownership and a bias toward action, operating in EST or CST time zones. You will collaborate with engineering leadership to drive infrastructure decisions and enable product teams to ship faster with confidence.