# Infrastructure Engineer - Early Career

**Company:** [Northwood Space](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/northwood-space)
**Location:** Los Angeles, CA, Washington, DC, California
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 0+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, Linux, Git, Python, Go, Prometheus, Grafana
**Posted:** 2026-04-22

> Entry-level infrastructure engineer learns and contributes to the full stack including AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and networking. Executes scoped tasks, shadows on-call, and documents work under senior guidance with 0-2 years experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Learn the Northwood stack in depth — **AWS**, **Terraform**, **Kubernetes**, **Vault**, observability, networking — and identify one or more areas to go deeper in over time.
- Execute scoped infrastructure tasks. With guidance from senior engineers, execute work that is reviewed and merged without significant rework.
- Contribute to infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, observability configuration, and operational tooling across the stack.
- Shadow on-call rotations. Triage incidents and escalate as needed to senior engineers.
- Participate in post-incident reviews to build operational judgment.
- Write clear runbooks, component docs, and design notes for work you own. Documentation is part of the deliverable.
- Pair with senior engineers on larger projects to build pattern recognition for how infrastructure decisions are made and tradeoffs evaluated.

## Basic Qualifications
- 0-2 years of professional experience in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, SRE, networking, or systems engineering. Strong interest in infrastructure engineering and a clear willingness to go deep on one or more facets of the stack.
- Working familiarity with **Linux**, networking, and at least one major cloud provider.
- Some experience with infrastructure as code (**Terraform**, **CloudFormation**, **Pulumi**, or similar) and version control with **Git**.
- Comfortable reading and writing code in at least one language (**Python**, **Go**, **Bash**, or similar).
- Strong written communication. Able to describe problems, document work, and ask good questions.

## Preferred Qualifications
- A demonstrated interest in one or more of the following through coursework, side projects, prior internships, or homelab work. We're looking for genuine curiosity and a track record of following through on learning.
  - Networking — enterprise, site, or core (**Routing**, **VPNs**, **firewalls**, **switching**)
  - Security engineering — **Vault**, identity and access management, **SIEM**, hardening
  - Compliance — **CMMC**, **FedRAMP**, **NIST 800-171**, **ITAR**
  - Observability — **Prometheus** or **VictoriaMetrics**, **Grafana**, log pipelines
  - App platform — **Kubernetes**, **Podman**, **ArgoCD**, **GitOps**
  - CI/CD — pipeline design, scanning and linting, release engineering
  - Cloud architecture — **AWS**, **GovCloud**, **Cloudflare**
  - On-prem and edge — bringing up systems in remote or austere environments

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