Senior Infrastructure Engineer

We're seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to play a key role in shaping and scaling our cloud infrastructure. You'll be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment workflows, ensuring system reliability and security, and supporting rapid development cycles. This is a hands-on role ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, high-impact environment and is excited to build foundational DevOps systems from the ground up. You'll work closely with engineering leadership to drive infrastructure decisions and enable product teams to ship faster with confidence. This person should reside in EST or CST locations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Axion's cloud infrastructure on GCP, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security

• Own and evolve our Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform and Terraform infrastructure-as-code practices

• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and deployment automation to help engineering teams ship with speed and confidence

• Establish and maintain observability across our stack — logging, metrics, alerting, and tracing — and lead incident response efforts

• Define and track SLOs and SLIs, driving a culture of reliability and continuous improvement

• Contribute to security hardening, compliance posture, and cost optimization across our cloud environment

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering

• Deep hands-on experience with GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, or similar services)

• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes — cluster management, networking, scaling, and troubleshooting

• Solid Terraform experience — writing modular, reusable, production-grade infrastructure-as-code

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling

• Strong background in observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent)

• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a bias toward action

• Experience at a venture-backed startup preferred

• Must be based in the Eastern or Central time zones

• Experience using agents to accelerate delivery

• Experience managing infrastructure for FedRAMP environments

You’re a builder and operator who thrives in fast-moving, high-accountability environments. You take pride in getting things done — thoughtfully, efficiently, and without drama. You’re energized by ambiguity, skilled at bringing clarity, and comfortable flexing between strategy and execution.

You value feedback — giving it, receiving it, and acting on it — and you see collaboration as a competitive advantage, not a burden. You’re low-ego but high-agency: you care about winning as a team more than being right individually. You move quickly, communicate directly, and make decisions grounded in impact and data.

You don’t need constant direction — you create momentum. You take ownership for outcomes, and you expect the same from those around you.

We move fast, work smart, and hold ourselves to a high bar. Axion is a place for people who take pride in their craft and are motivated by meaningful work. We respect time off and boundaries, but we’re also realistic: hard problems sometimes require weekend pushes or late-night thinking sessions. We support that balance — intensity with respect for recharge.

We stay highly collaborative and connected throughout the day — much of our communication happens over Slack. We move quickly, share feedback often, and keep discussions open so decisions and context flow freely. If you value crisp communication, rapid iteration, and a steady hum of collaboration, you’ll fit right in.

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