About the role
Who are we looking for
We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with ideally 5+ years of experience to own and elevate the infrastructure powering an AI-native defense manufacturing platform. This is a high-ownership role where you'll drive compliance efforts – SOC 2, FedRAMP – while scaling and hardening production systems on AWS GovCloud and Kubernetes. You won't be maintaining someone else's stack – you'll be the person who built it. The right candidate thrives in ambiguity, takes initiative, and wants to be the foundational infrastructure hire at a fast-moving early-stage company with a mission that matters.
What you will be doing
- Leading the company through SOC 2 and FedRAMP compliance – implementing security controls across authentication, encryption, role-based access, and audit logging to get the platform audit-ready
- Owning and scaling production Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS GovCloud (EKS, IAM, VPC, Secrets Manager) – taking what exists today and bringing it to true production-grade
- Reworking authentication and authorization systems (Auth0, Keycloak, Istio) to meet compliance frameworks and enterprise security standards
- Overhauling CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Helm), and deployment processes to improve reliability and developer velocity
- Operating as the first dedicated infrastructure hire with a path to technical leadership – driving architecture decisions independently while collaborating closely with a small, high-caliber engineering team
