Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Location

Northern America + 1 moreAll locations: Northern America | Americas

Posted

15 days ago

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Lead

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Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Lastwall

Role Description We are hiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to help design, operate, and scale the infrastructure that supports Lastwall’s secure identity platform. This is a senior technical leadership role for someone who can own production systems, improve reliability and security, and help mature the infrastructure practices behind mission-critical software. - Infrastructure Leadership: Lead the design, implementation, and operation of secure, reliable infrastructure that supports Lastwall’s identity platform. Help define infrastructure standards, operating practices, and technical direction as the company scales. - Cloud & Platform Operations: Build, manage, and improve cloud-based systems across development, staging, and production environments. Support infrastructure that is scalable, observable, secure, and resilient for enterprise and government customers. - Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain automation for provisioning, deployment, configuration, and environment management. Use infrastructure-as-code practices to improve repeatability, reduce manual effort, and support secure change management. - Reliability, Observability & Performance: Improve system reliability through monitoring, alerting, logging, metrics, and incident response practices. Help define and track service health, availability, performance, and operational readiness. - Security & Compliance-Driven Infrastructure: Apply secure infrastructure practices across cloud environments, access controls, secrets management, networking, deployment pipelines, and production operations. Support compliance-driven requirements for regulated and high-trust customers. - CI/CD & Developer Enablement: Partner with software developers to improve build, test, deployment, and release workflows. Help maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines that support secure and efficient delivery of Lastwall’s products. - Incident Response & Operational Ownership: Participate in production support, troubleshooting, incident response, and Learning From Incidents. Bring structure to operational issues and help improve systems so recurring problems are addressed at the source. - Technical Mentorship: Provide technical mentorship to engineers working with infrastructure, deployment, and production systems. Help raise the team’s infrastructure maturity through documentation, review, guidance, and practical standards. Qualifications - 7+ years of professional infrastructure, DevOps, platform, SRE, or systems engineering experience, ideally in SaaS, cybersecurity, identity, government technology, or other complex software environments. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience. - Strong experience operating distributed systems in production cloud infrastructure, including secure, reliable, and scalable systems. - Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, environment management, and repeatable deployment practices. - Experience with CI/CD pipelines, build systems, deployment automation, and developer enablement. - Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar. - Experience with EC2, Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads. - Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, security controls, and production operations. - Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and incident response. - Familiarity with secure infrastructure practices, including access control, secrets management, segmentation, vulnerability management, and least-privilege design. - Ability to work independently and lead technical initiatives end-to-end, from design through implementation, documentation, and operational handoff. - Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across engineering, security, product, and operations. - Comfort in a small but growing company, where ownership, adaptability, and practical execution matter. Nice to Have - Strong AWS experience, ideally including AWS GovCloud or similarly regulated cloud environments. - Experience working in FedRAMP, government, defense, critical infrastructure, or other regulated environments. - Experience with containerized environments, such as Docker and orchestration platforms. - Experience supporting Rust, PostgreSQL, and modern web application infrastructure. - Experience with compliance frameworks, audit evidence collection, or secure change-management processes. - Experience with high-availability architecture, disaster recovery, backup strategy, and resilience planning. - Familiarity with authentication, identity, PKI, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, or Zero Trust architectures. - Experience mentoring engineers or helping lead an infrastructure, DevOps, platform, or SRE function. Benefits - Lastwall offers a competitive compensation package aligned with the scope and impact of the role. - Final compensation will reflect experience, location, and fit with the mandate. - This is an opportunity to join after the product, customers, and proof points are real—but before the next stage of scale is fully built. - Lastwall has a proven platform, demanding customers, meaningful accreditations, strong market timing, and new strategic perspective from investors and board leadership. - At Lastwall, your voice is heard, recognized, and valued. - We are building a people-first, security-always culture where strong contributors can have meaningful impact as the company grows. - For the right candidate, this is a chance to help build secure, resilient infrastructure at the intersection of identity, sovereignty, resilience, and national security.

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