# Principal / Staff / Senior Infrastructure Engineer

**Company:** [AllSpice](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/allspice)
**Location:** Boston, MA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, IAM, Guardduty, Aws Waf, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Bash, Postgres
**Posted:** 2026-08-20

> Own and scale secure cloud infrastructure, deployments, observability, compliance, and incident response for a hardware collaboration platform. The role requires substantial cloud or security engineering experience, AWS and Linux expertise, and the ability to lead cross-functional infrastructure initiatives.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own server deployments and infrastructure automation.
- Manage enterprise deployments and SSO integrations with customer success.
- Partner with application developers on infrastructure solutions.
- Document security processes and identify improvements.
- Manage ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification processes and penetration testing.
- Improve architecture and hosting services.
- Automate software deployments, backups, and data recovery.
- Monitor and improve cloud infrastructure performance and availability.
- Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and lead blameless postmortems.
- Scale infrastructure for zero-downtime deployments.
- Reduce cloud costs and improve performance.
- Establish disaster recovery processes and stress-test backups.
- Support CI/CD workflows.
- Identify security flaws and conduct penetration testing and red-team exercises.

## Requirements
- 4+ years of cloud infrastructure and/or security engineering experience for Senior; 6+ years for Staff; 8+ years for Principal.
- Deep hands-on AWS and Linux administration experience.
- Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and penetration testing.
- Strong project management and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Comfort with ambiguity and autonomy.
- Fluency with day-to-day AI tools.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a technology-related field.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or lawful permanent resident.

## Nice-to-haves
- AWS security services including IAM, GuardDuty, and AWS WAF.
- Terraform, Ansible, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Logging aggregation and metrics observability.
- Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Distributed systems, secure multi-tenant SaaS, and self-hosted deployments.
- SBOM generation and auditing.
- Bash and Python scripting; Go or Rust programming.
- Nginx and reverse-proxy services.
- Documentation and project management.
- SSO, OIDC, and LDAP.
- Data lakes and high-availability services.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Generous paid time off.
- Home office stipend.
- Relocation package.
- Flexible work and flex-office availability.

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