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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - **Company:** Spire Inc. - **Location:** Boulder, CO, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $171,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Github, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Datadog, Load Balancing, Grafana, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Kubernetes, AWS EKS, Software Library, Artifactory - **Published:** August 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://spire.com/careers/job-openings/job/?gh_jid=8124588#apply ## About the Role * 2-3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or a similar role * Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes, especially EKS * Familiarity with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines * Comfortable troubleshooting distributed systems and production issues * Working knowledge of observability tooling and concepts such as metrics, logs, traces, and alerting * Ability to write code or libraries in one or more general-purpose languages to support developer workflows * Good communication skills and a customer-focused mindset * Comfortable collaborating frequently with a variety of infrastructure, IT, security and application teams Nice to have: * Experience with cost optimization in AWS or Kubernetes environments * Experience with ArgoCD or similar GitOps tools * Experience with Grafana ecosystem tooling * Familiarity with policy and admission control tools like Gatekeeper * Experience with Kubernetes networking or traffic policy tools like Calico * Experience supporting internal developer platforms or platform product teams * Experience with Open-Telemetry or application instrumentation patterns * Certification as an AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Certified CloudOps Engineer is an asset ## Description Due to increased demand, we're looking to hire a Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineer to join our team supporting our internal developer platform built on AWS. This is a hands-on role for someone with a few years of relevant experience who wants to grow in platform engineering, cloud operations, observability, and developer experience. This role is a good fit for someone who wants to grow beyond day-to-day platform support and into a broader platform engineering career. You'll have exposure to both infrastructure and developer workflows, with a chance to make a real impact on cloud cost, platform reliability, and developer productivity. You'll partner closely with Infrastructure, Security, IT, and Spire's software development teams to improve how our platform runs, how our developers ship software, and how efficiently we spend it on AWS. What you'll do: * Lead analysis of AWS spend across both platform-owned infrastructure and developer team workloads * Identify cost optimization opportunities and help implement changes that reduce spend without sacrificing reliability or developer experience * Support migration of existing workloads onto our newest internal developer platform * Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve platform issues raised by internal customers, primarily software developers and IT/Security engineers * Perform regular maintenance, upgrades, and improvements across platform services and tooling * Help build and maintain code libraries, templates, and integrations that make it easier for application teams to instrument and observe their systems * Work with platform observability and delivery tooling across: + AWS EKS + AWS networking (VPC, subnets, TGW, load balancers, routing) and security (Security Groups, NACLs) + GitHub and GitHub Actions + ArgoCD + JFrog Artifactory and X-Ray + Grafana Enterprise, Alloy, Mimir, Tempo + OpenSearch + Karpenter + Calico + Gatekeeper + OpenCost ## Related Videos - [Building a Cloud Platform Where Everything is Just Another Kubernetes Resource](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100137-building-a-cloud-platform-where-everything-is-just-another-kubernetes-resource) - [Debugging in the Dark](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Software Engineering Social Connection: Yubo’s lean approach to scaling an 80M-user infrastructure](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1583-software-engineering-social-connection-yubo-s-lean-approach-to-scaling-an-80m-user-infrastructure) - [Bringing AI Model Testing and Prompt Management to Your Codebase with GitHub Models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1536-bringing-ai-model-testing-and-prompt-management-to-your-codebase-with-github-models) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers)