Job Description
About the position
A fast-growing venture-backed startup is hiring its first dedicated Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer to help scale a rapidly expanding platform. This role sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, security, and compliance , and will own the foundation that enables the engineering team to ship quickly and safely. You will design and evolve the company’s infrastructure strategy, build secure-by-default systems, and ensure the platform can scale reliably as adoption grows. This is an ideal role for someone who thrives in early-stage environments , enjoys ownership, and wants to shape infrastructure architecture from the ground up.
- Responsibilities
- Own infrastructure and security decisions across AWS and Kubernetes
- Harden cloud environments including networking, IAM, WAFs, and DNS
- Maintain and improve SOC 2 compliance workflows using tools such as Drata
- Design infrastructure strategy for 1–3 year scaling horizons
- Build automation, templates, and CI/CD guardrails to enable secure developer workflows
- Improve observability, reliability, and performance across infrastructure systems
- Requirements
- 5–8 years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years in a dedicated DevOps / Infrastructure role
- Deep experience with AWS and Kubernetes
- Experience managing cloud networking, IAM policies, and infrastructure security
- Strong background in Terraform or infrastructure-as-code
- Experience operating production environments with compliance requirements (SOC 2 preferred)
- Nice-to-haves
- Startup-minded engineer who enjoys high ownership and autonomy
- Comfortable working as the first infrastructure hire
- Strong problem solver with a focus on security, reliability, and scalability
- Able to collaborate closely with product and engineering teams
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