About Us Gramian Consultancy is a boutique consultancy specializing in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. With a strong background in software engineering and leadership, we help companies build high-performing teams by matching them with professionals who truly fit their needs. Role overview We are partnering with an innovative deep-tech company currently emerging from stealth and building an industrial data platform focused on real-time sensor connectivity, scalable data pipelines, and AI-driven analytics for manufacturing, energy, and critical infrastructure environments. They are hiring their first Backend & Data Infrastructure Engineer — a foundational, high-ownership role responsible for designing and building the company’s data layer end-to-end, from edge ingestion through transformation, fusion, and delivery into analytics and AI systems. This is a foundational engineering role with founder-level responsibility, working alongside senior engineers and leaders from globally recognized industrial, autonomous systems, and research organizations. Model: Contracting, Remote Duration: 6+ months Location: strong preference for Texas, US, alternatively LATAM Key Responsibilities - Design and implement end-to-end data pipeline architecture spanning edge devices, ingestion, processing, storage, and delivery into analytics/AI workloads - Build scalable ETL and data processing frameworks with orchestration, schema management, versioning, and automated data quality controls - Develop real-time and streaming infrastructure supporting event-driven systems, edge-to-cloud synchronization, buffering strategies, and strict latency requirements - Own DevOps and infrastructure engineering, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, and production deployment workflows - Implement and maintain security architecture across the stack, including access controls, secrets management, network segmentation, vulnerability scanning, and compliance practices - Establish strong observability, monitoring, and operational tooling for distributed systems running across cloud, edge, and enterprise integrations - Support onboarding of complex multimodal data sources including telemetry, time-series, video, audio, LiDAR, and geospatial datasets

• Build Core AWS services and infrastructure for compute, storage, network, monitoring, management, FinOps, databases, and AI/ML • Work closely with Architects, DBAs, Developers, DevOps, SRE and Data engineers to bake AWS standard methodologies, IaC and cost optimizations early in the design process • Understand Cloud TCO and implement tools and processes to improve AWS cost transparency and accountability • Design and Implement Lytx cloud services using AWS Well architected framework principals • Build Lytx cloud resources using Infrastructure as code (IaC – Terraform /Terragrunt) using Gitops principals

• Provide advanced troubleshooting and fault isolation for escalated server and network incidents • Execute firmware, BIOS, and driver updates on Dell PowerEdge servers • Perform IOS/NX-OS firmware and software updates on Cisco routers and switches • Manage hardware break/fix procedures for server infrastructure • Conduct regular network health audits and performance analysis • Collaborate with the SRE team to enhance monitoring dashboards • Mentor L1 engineers • Participate in blameless post-mortems following major incidents • Maintain and update operational runbooks • Support hardware lifecycle management activities

• Define and maintain the enterprise infrastructure target state, including principles, standards, patterns and reference architecture across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. • Monitor the infrastructure landscape and recommend improvements to enhance reliability, scalability, performance, availability and security • Lead the development and ongoing evolution of domain-level infrastructure architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture direction and business priorities • Lead the selection and implementation of infrastructure technologies, tools, and platforms. • Establish architecture guardrails that promote standardization, reuse, resilience and security by design across the organization • Work collaboratively with applications, platform, network, database, security and operations teams to ensure seamless integration of solutions. • Collaborate with business domain architects and solution architects to translate business needs into viable infrastructure capabilities • Develop and maintain documentation including reference architectures, standards, patterns and implementation guidelines. • Ensure infrastructure architecture aligns with banking requirements for regulatory compliance, data residency, and security. • Plan for capacity, scalability, and disaster recovery, including the creation and testing of backup and recovery strategies. • Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure the organization’s infrastructure remains competitive and cost-effective. • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior IT staff and project teams.