Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design cost-optimized, fault-tolerant infrastructure for scale: Propose enhancements to infrastructure design to expand client base, deploy new products, manage cloud costs, and ensure reliability.
• Streamline development and deployment: Define branching and promotion strategy for regulatory compliance. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub for automated testing and deployment.
• Establish and evangelize infrastructure best practices: Create guidelines and templates such as Terraform modules, and educate team members.
• Infrastructure support and maintenance: Continuous monitoring of system performance and reliability, apply software upgrades. Collaborate on troubleshooting and performance optimization.
• Secure infrastructure: Partner with SecOps to implement security best practices complying with HIPAA, HITRUST, FDA, and client requirements.
• AI Ops Platform Architecture: Architect and build a secure, internal AI Ops platform to host and manage AI/ML agents for infrastructure and DevOps optimization.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure on AWS as a DevOps, Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineer, or similar role.
• Proficient with Kubernetes, preferably with EKS, including cluster bootstrapping and day-2 ops.
• Strong operational knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL/MySQL (backups, failover, performance tuning).
• Deep expertise in Terraform (or equivalent IaC) and building clean, scalable modules.
• Familiarity with observability tools, particularly Datadog.
• Experience building infrastructure with sensitive data containing PHI/PII.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, preferably with CircleCI.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Experience handling ambiguity in a startup.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using AI agents to optimize infrastructure management or DevOps workflows.
• Experience with disaster recovery or business continuity plans.
• Experience with multi-account, multi-cluster topologies.
• Experience building systems in healthcare, life sciences, or regulated industries.
• Chaos engineering or game-day facilitation.
• Experience implementing and maintaining a GitOps framework.