Senior Compute Infrastructure Engineer at Panthalassa
Portland, OR
$150,000–$200,000from the description
Jul 6, 2026
Portland, OR
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on infrastructure and systems engineering role at a marine renewable energy startup. The position covers designing, building, and running both on-premises and cloud-hosted computing platforms, as well as deploying and maintaining the business applications that run on them. It suits an experienced generalist comfortable with Windows and Linux administration, network engineering, infrastructure automation, and security — working across a small, cross-disciplinary team in a Portland, OR office.
Senior level · 5+ years · Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 95 people in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 20–140
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $105,214 (middle half $87,574–$128,382). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
This role sits at the boundary between 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) and 15-1252 (Software Developers). The JD emphasizes operating and administering infrastructure, networks, and SaaS applications, but also explicitly calls for writing infrastructure-as-code and automated tooling — signals that lean toward software development. On balance, the primary day-to-day work described (deploy, operate, monitor, administer, respond to incidents) tips toward 15-1244, but the IaC and automation coding duties are substantial.
The scripting languages (Bash, Python, PowerShell) are listed together under a single 'such as' requirement; they are treated as interchangeable alternatives for that one gate rather than three separate hard requirements.
Similarly, the configuration management / IaC tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform) are listed as a single 'such as' requirement; Puppet is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
The desired qualifications section explicitly states 'The above qualifications are desired, not required,' confirming all items in that section are preferred.
The minimum experience gate is 5+ years (from Required Qualifications); 10+ years appears only under Desired Qualifications and is not a hard gate.
No degree is required — the JD lists no educational requirement at all.
The role is on-site only at Portland, OR headquarters; relocation assistance is offered.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): HPC cluster administration.
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