Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Temporal Platform

Location: Remote
Job Type: Full-Time

Job Summary

We are seeking a hands-on Lead Infrastructure Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure foundation for an enterprise Temporal Platform used as an internal shared service. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud infrastructure, SRE, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, identity, observability, and distributed systems.

This is an opportunity to work as a key infrastructure/platform engineering team member, making critical decisions around reliability, security, scalability, and production operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain hosting, connectivity, identity, automation, observability, and production controls.

• Deploy and scale containerized workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift.

• Configure autoscaling, networking, secrets, resource policies, and GitOps deployments.

• Implement enterprise SSO, IAM, role mapping, service identities, and access controls.

• Develop Infrastructure as Code and GitOps using Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD.

• Establish monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.

• Support multi-tenant internal platforms, namespace isolation, and developer enablement.

• Define on-call processes and incident-response practices.

• Manage distributed systems and durable data, including availability, consistency, backup/recovery, retention, and performance.

• Partner with internal teams and vendors to establish clear operational ownership.

• Drive reliability, security, scalability, and production-readiness decisions.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.

• Strong hands-on experience with Cloud, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and production distributed systems.

• Experience with enterprise SSO/IAM and cloud identity integrations.

• Strong knowledge of Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and GitOps practices.

• Production experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, durable data, backup/recovery, and performance.

• Experience operating internal shared services, including multi-tenancy and namespace isolation.

• Hands-on experience administering or integrating Temporal, Cadence, or a comparable durable-execution/workflow platform.

• Proficiency in Go.

• Familiarity with Temporal SDKs – Java, Go, and TypeScript.

• Experience with enterprise networking, private connectivity, identity, and managed-service integrations.

• Experience establishing on-call and incident-response processes.

• Strong communication, troubleshooting, and independent decision-making skills.

Preferred Skills

Temporal • Kubernetes • OpenShift • AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform • Terraform • Helm • ArgoCD • GitOps • Prometheus • Grafana • OpenTelemetry • Go • Java • TypeScript • SRE • IAM/SSO • Distributed Systems • Cloud Infrastructure • Enterprise Networking