IT Infrastructure Engineer

Company Overview

Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.

We are searching for an IT Infrastructure Engineer II to support the reliable operation of end-user computing and core infrastructure services, with primary responsibility for infrastructure supporting the Kairos Power Alameda, CA site. You will work as part of a team of Infrastructure Engineers to independently implement, operate, troubleshoot, and maintain infrastructure enabling corporate, engineering, and manufacturing services. The role contributes to the design, standardization, automation, and continuous improvement of cloud and on-premises infrastructure. The successful candidate will have previous IT systems and/or network engineering experience; experience in engineering or industrial/manufacturing organizations and regulated environments is preferred.

• Independently install, configure, and maintain cloud and on-premises networking, compute, and infrastructure resources, using Infrastructure as Code where practical.

• Contribute to the design, standardization, implementation, and ongoing management of hybrid infrastructure across offices, labs, manufacturing spaces, and datacenter environments.

• Monitor and independently troubleshoot routine and moderately complex network, systems, and application issues, and identify opportunities to improve performance and reliability.

• Build reliable, secure, and automated solutions that improve infrastructure scalability and operational efficiency.

• Administer and support server, endpoint, identity, endpoint management, and cloud infrastructure technologies.

• Collaborate with security, engineering, manufacturing, facilities, and business teams to define requirements and deliver infrastructure that supports operational needs.

• Coordinate with vendors, service providers, and external partners to implement secure and reliable infrastructure solutions.

• Develop, maintain, and improve technical documentation, standards, diagrams, and operating procedures.

• Participate in infrastructure projects, upgrades, migrations, incident response, and continuous improvement efforts, taking ownership of assigned infrastructure deliverables.

• Apply modern IT and security best practices across supported systems and environments.

• Perform other duties as assigned consistent with the role.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or similar field; or an equivalent combination of education, professional certifications, and applicable work experience.

• 4+ years of relevant work experience in network engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a similar role in a medium-to-large-scale organization or similarly complex environment.

• Experience independently supporting and troubleshooting datacenter operations, physical and logical networking, and systems infrastructure.

• Hands-on experience with at least one cloud IaaS platform, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

• Practical experience with configuration management, automation, or Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.

• Prior work experience in a highly regulated industry, including government