Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Leads infrastructure and platform strategy for a production healthcare AI platform, owning AWS, reliability, disaster recovery, compliance, CI/CD, and secure AI-agent operations. Requires deep cloud and Terraform expertise, audit-cycle experience, and prior technical leadership.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own availability, disaster recovery, backup commitments, multi-region failover architecture, and recovery exercises.
- Establish production monitoring, alerting, SLOs, on-call rotation, and incident response processes.
- Own technical controls for SOC 2 and HIPAA, including AWS organization guardrails, least-privilege IAM, KMS/encryption, vulnerability remediation, and continuous audit evidence through Vanta.
- Build CI/CD pipelines, Terraform/IaC foundations, preview environments, and test infrastructure.
- Create guardrails for safe AI coding-agent deployments, including policy-as-code, deploy verification, and agent-operated operations tooling.
- Set platform-work strategy, priorities, status reporting, and operating cadence.
- Architect AI SRE agents, right-size reliability practices, automate compliance controls and audit evidence, and support defined RTO/RPO targets with immutable, restore-tested backups.
Requirements
- Deep AWS experience owning production cloud infrastructure, including IAM, networking, KMS, containers, and managed databases.
- Strong Terraform/IaC and CI/CD expertise.
- Hands-on experience completing at least one SOC 2, HITRUST, or ISO 27001 audit cycle and implementing its technical controls.
- SRE fundamentals covering SLOs, incident management, and disaster recovery design.
- Experience leading engineering teams as a technical lead or engineering manager.
- Ability to break down ambiguous goals, delegate to humans or AI agents, and communicate with non-technical stakeholders.
- Customer-focused mindset and interest in healthcare technology.
Nice-to-haves
- Healthcare or other regulated-industry experience, including HIPAA fluency.
- Policy-as-code experience with OPA or Kyverno.
- Compliance automation experience with Vanta or Drata.
- Experience as a first infrastructure hire or founding/leading a platform team.
- Internal tooling or infrastructure experience for LLM or agent systems.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary: $200,000–$275,000 annually.
- Hybrid arrangement with 3 days per week in the San Francisco office.
- Unlimited vacation, paid parental leave, medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits, 401(k), significant equity, mentorship, company equipment, home-office setup, and team events/offsites.
Skills
AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, IAM, Kms, Docker, SRE, SLOs, Disaster Recovery, Policy-As-Code, Opa, Kyverno, HIPAA, SOC 2, Python
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