Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Spire Global · Boulder, Colorado, United States
About this role
**Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineer — Spire Global** **About Spire** Spire Global is a space-powered data and analytics platform that delivers unique insights from the vantage point of space—helping organizations act now and plan for the future with confidence, accuracy, and speed. **About the role** We’re looking to hire a **Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineer** to support our internal developer platform built on **AWS**. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to grow in **platform engineering, cloud operations, observability, and developer experience**. You’ll partner closely with **Infrastructure, Security, IT, and software development teams** to improve how the platform runs, how developers ship software, and how efficiently we spend on AWS. --- ## What you’ll do - Lead analysis of **AWS spend** across platform-owned infrastructure and developer team workloads - Identify **cost optimization opportunities** and implement changes to 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) - Perform regular maintenance, upgrades, and improvements across platform services and tooling - Build and maintain **code libraries, templates, and integrations** to help application teams instrument and observe their systems - Work with platform observability and delivery tooling across: - **AWS EKS** - **AWS networking & security** (VPC, subnets, TGW, load balancers, routing; Security Groups, NACLs) - **GitHub / GitHub Actions** - **ArgoCD** - **JFrog Artifactory** and **X-Ray** - **Grafana Enterprise** and related tooling (**Alloy, Mimir, Tempo**) - **OpenSearch** - **Karpenter** - **Calico** - **Gatekeeper** - **OpenCost** --- ## What we’re looking for - **2–3+ years** of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or similar - Strong experience with **AWS** and **Kubernetes**, especially **EKS** - Familiarity with **GitOps** workflows and **CI/CD** pipelines - Ability to troubleshoot **distributed systems** and production issues - Working knowledge of **observability** (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) - Ability to write code/libraries in one or more general-purpose languages to support developer workflows - Good communication skills and a **customer-focused** mindset - Comfortable collaborating frequently with 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/admission control tools like **Gatekeeper** - Experience with Kubernetes networking/traffic policy tools like **Calico** - Experience supporting internal developer platforms or platform product teams - Experience with **OpenTelemetry** or application instrumentation patterns - **AWS Certified Solutions Architect** or **Certified CloudOps Engineer** (asset) --- ## Work model & requirements - Spire operates a **hybrid work model**; this role requires working **at least three business days per week in the office**. - **Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required**. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses. --- ## Compensatio
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