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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Baremetal Infrastructure Engineer - **Company:** Nominal Services LLC - **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Automation of Tests, Intelligent Platform Management Interface, Border Gateway Protocol, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering, Data Centers, Software Debugging, Linux, DevOps, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Home Automation, Network Troubleshooting, Linux Kernel, Routing, Network Administration, Performance Tuning, Remote Direct Memory Access, Reliability Engineering, Requirements Management, Ceph (Software), SSL Certificate Management, Network Switches, Network Routing, Transport Layer Security, Computer Network Operations, Performance Testing, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Low Latency, Bare Metal, Hardware Infrastructure, Nvme - **Published:** September 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/baremetal-infrastructure-engineer-los-angeles-ca--190821b3-19dc-4542-b8be-a5b1b840918c ## About the Role * Strong Linux systems expertise * Experience operating and troubleshooting production infrastructure * Background in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering * Ability to independently debug complex systems across multiple layers of the stack * Comfort working directly with customers and external stakeholders * Willingness to travel for customer deployments * Strong ownership mentality and ability to operate in ambiguous environments Strong Pluses: * Active security clearance or ability and willingness to obtain and maintain one * Experience with Kubernetes in production environments * GitOps workflows and tooling (Flux, Helm, Kustomize, etc.) * Infrastructure as Code experience * Datacenter operations experience * Hardware procurement, provisioning, or lifecycle management * Networking expertise (routing, switching, troubleshooting, performance tuning) * Linux kernel, networking, or performance optimization experience * Security-focused infrastructure experience including TLS and certificate management * Experience supporting air-gapped, classified, or highly regulated environments Skills That Supercharge Us Bare Metal & Provisioning * PXE * IPMI * BMC * iLO / iDRAC * MAAS * Tinkerbell * Metal provisioning workflows Systems * Linux internals * Kernel troubleshooting * NUMA * RDMA * SR-IOV * eBPF Networking * BGP * Routing * Low-latency networking * NIC offloading * DPDK Storage * Ceph * NVMe * Distributed storage systems Infrastructure * Kubernetes * GitOps * Datacenter automation * Rack provisioning * Hardware orchestration * On-prem infrastructure operations, Aerospace and Defense, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, BGP, Computer Engineering, Customer Relations, Customer Support/Service, Data Analysis, Debugging Skills, DevOps, Digital Certificates, Distributed Computing, Documentation, Environmental Issues, Government Regulations, Home Automation, IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface), Identify Issues, Information Technology & Information Systems, Kernel Programming, Linux Kernel, Linux Operating System, Machine Tool, National Intelligence Council (NIC), Network Administration/Management, Network Debugging, Network Operations Center, Network Performance/Analysis, Network Routing, Network Switching, On Site Support, Operations Processes, Performance Analysis, Performance Engineering, Performance Testing, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Process Improvement, Production Systems, Purchasing/Procurement, Reliability Engineering, Requirements Management, SSL-TLS (Secure Socket Layer - Transport Layer Security), Security Clearance, Security Infrastructure, Team Building, Test Automation, Testing, United States Air Force (USAF), United States Citizen, United States Navy (USN), Willing to Travel ## Description Nominals self-hosted and on-prem deployments are becoming increasingly critical to our customers success. As adoption grows, were balancing customer implementations, reliability improvements, FedRAMP readiness, and infrastructure modernization, all while supporting deployments in highly constrained environments. Were looking for someone who can become our in-house expert on Linux systems, bare metal infrastructure, and deployment reliability. Youll help customers deploy and operate Nominal in their own environments while also driving the internal improvements that make those deployments more repeatable, observable, and scalable. This role sits at the intersection of DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and customer-facing infrastructure. One day you might be debugging networking issues on a customer rack. The next, you might be building provisioning automation, improving Kubernetes upgrade paths, or implementing observability features that eliminate future support burdens. Youll be a force multiplier for the team, reducing context switching, accelerating customer deployments, and helping us build a world-class self-hosted platform. What Youll Do * Serve as a technical expert for customer-hosted and air-gapped deployments * Travel onsite to support critical customer implementations when additional technical expertise is required * Troubleshoot Linux, networking, Kubernetes, and infrastructure issues in production environments * Partner directly with customer IT, infrastructure, and security teams to gather requirements and ensure successful deployments * Build and improve deployment tooling, automation, and operational processes * Improve reliability, observability, and maintainability across our self-hosted infrastructure * Develop deployment documentation, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides * Help shape Nominals long-term strategy for self-hosted and regulated deployments ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [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) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [#90DaysOfDevOps - The DevOps Learning Journey](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/548-90daysofdevops-the-devops-learning-journey) - [What makes Cybersecurity different for critical infrastructure?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/571-what-makes-cybersecurity-different-for-critical-infrastructure) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) ## 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) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 134 - Where pixels sing?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/477-dev-digest-134-where-pixels-sing) - [What Makes WeAreDevelopers World Congress Different From Every Other Tech Event?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/701-what-makes-wearedevelopers-world-congress-different-from-every-other-tech-event)