Role Overview

The Foundation Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for building, operating, and evolving Cognite’s production-grade, multi-cloud infrastructure platform that accelerates solution deployment, ensures reliability, and enables secure, compliant delivery across customer environments

The role focuses on GitOps-based CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, cost governance, and platform reliability across Azure and GCP clusters.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure across Azure and GCP using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code).
• Deploy and manage applications on Kubernetes clusters (AKS / GKE).
• Support CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and manage deployments through Argo CD (GitOps model).
• Create, maintain, and customize Helm charts for solution deployments.
• Monitor platform health using tools like Victoria Metrics and Grafana.
• Investigate and resolve infrastructure-related issues within business hours.
• Support onboarding of new solutions onto the F25E platform.
• Manage secrets securely using External Secrets Operator, Azure KeyVault, and GCP Secrets Manager.
• Track and optimize cloud costs using OpenCost and native cloud billing tools.
• Ensure deployments follow security and compliance requirements (SOC 2 aligned).
• Contribute to improving automation, deployment speed, and platform reliability.
• Collaborate with data engineers and solution architects to enable smooth solution delivery.
• Follow PR-based workflows for infrastructure and deployment changes.
• Support supported solutions running on production clusters when required.

Core Technical Skills

• Kubernetes (AKS, GKE), Multi-Cluster Management
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• GitOps & CI/CD (Argo CD, GitHub Actions)
• Helm & Kubernetes Configuration Management
• Multi-Cloud Platforms (Azure, GCP)
• Observability & Monitoring (Victoria Metrics, Grafana)

Ideal Profile

• Strong Kubernetes and multi-cloud experience (Azure & GCP preferred)
• Deep understanding of GitOps and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience operating production-grade platforms
• Exposure to SOC 2 / compliance environments
• Experience in cost governance and FinOps
• Strong problem-solving and platform ownership mindset

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work with modern, cloud-native technologies.
• Collaborative environment with strong engineering support.

Learn more about us

• Impact 2025
• Cognite's Industrial AI: Moonshot
• We’re globally recognized domain experts with an international presence that spans Phoenix, Houston, Oslo Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Abu Dhabi.

Equal Opportunity

Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.