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# Deployment Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Nominal, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Command-Line Interface, Cloud Storage, Data Centers, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Linux System Administration, Prometheus, Process Builder (Salesforce), Grafana, Kubernetes
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=222f03c667387add

## About the Role

* Infrastructure and deployment expertise: Experience operating production infrastructure, distributed systems, or developer platforms. Comfortable in Linux environments, the command line, Kubernetes, and troubleshooting independently.
 * On-prem experience: Hands-on experience deploying and supporting systems in on-prem, edge, or restricted environments. Experience with government or classified environments is a plus.
 * Compliance awareness: Familiarity with security, compliance, and accreditation requirements, including auditability, system hardening, and regulated deployments.
 * Customer-facing skills: Able to work directly with customers on complex technical issues, build trust, and navigate difficult tradeoffs while maintaining clear boundaries and expectations.
 * Process builder: Proven ability to turn operational challenges into repeatable processes, documentation, and deployment standards that scale.
 * Systems mindset: Able to think holistically about infrastructure while digging into root causes and technical details when needed.
 * Ownership and execution: Proactive, resourceful, and comfortable working across teams to drive outcomes in ambiguous environments.
 * Security requirements: Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS Clearance.

 * Skills that supercharge us

 * Unix/Linux systems
 * Kubernetes / Kuecutl
 * MinIO / S3 Object Storage
 * Postgres
 * Grafana / Prometheus / Loki / Mimir observability stack
 * Infrastructure as code

## Description

* Deploy & support: Deploy Nominal in restricted and self-hosted environments. Own runbooks, deployment documentation, and customer onboarding while troubleshooting issues in the field.
 * Work onsite: Travel to customer locations including test ranges, manufacturing facilities, and air-gapped data centers. Partner directly with customer engineering and IT teams to ensure successful deployments.
 * Scale deployments: Build repeatable deployment patterns across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. Reduce complexity and improve reliability as we grow.
 * Drive priorities: Identify the highest-impact infrastructure and deployment challenges. Surface risks early and help shape roadmap priorities.
 * Improve the platform: Build observability, automation, and infrastructure tooling that make deployments easier to operate and support.
 * Make sound tradeoffs: Balance speed, reliability, flexibility, and long-term maintainability when making technical decisions.
 * Own outcomes: Take initiative, solve problems, and know when to escalate. Move quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality.


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