Head of Infrastructure

Clark

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, security, DevOps, or SRE
  • Demonstrated ownership of production infrastructure in a fast-paced environment
  • In-depth knowledge of cloud infrastructure
  • Solid understanding of security, access controls, reliability, and compliance
  • Proven experience in handling enterprise security reviews
  • Ability to work independently as a hands-on leader prior to team development
  • Excellent communication skills across engineering, GTM, and customer-facing teams
  • Strong sense of ownership and operational discipline.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and management of Clark's infrastructure architecture and cloud environment
  • Establish security, compliance, and infrastructure processes
  • Manage the customer security-review process
  • Enhance deployment, observability, monitoring, and incident response protocols
  • Collaborate with engineering to ensure reliability and scalability
  • Develop infrastructure standards, access controls, and operational best practices
  • Prepare the company for upcoming compliance audits and frameworks
  • Lay the groundwork for the future infrastructure/security team
  • Work alongside Sales, CS, and Product to address customer security inquiries.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to own and shape Clark's infrastructure and compliance practices
  • Impact on product velocity, customer trust, and sales execution
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams, including engineering and sales
  • Foundation for personal growth as the team expands
  • Chance to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with enterprise clients.
Full Job Description
The Role

We are hiring a Head of Infrastructure to stand up Clark's infrastructure, security, and compliance foundation.

This person will own infrastructure as a solo leader initially, partnering closely with engineering leadership as the core product and platform team scales. You will own cloud infrastructure, reliability, security reviews, compliance readiness, deployment systems, and the operational foundation needed to support enterprise customers.

Why This Role Matters

As Clark sells into accounting firms and enterprise environments, infrastructure and security become critical to the GTM motion.

The Head of Infrastructure will own the systems and processes that allow Clark to pass customer security reviews, scale deployments, improve reliability, and support future compliance requirements.

This role directly impacts product velocity, customer trust, and sales execution.

What You'll Do
  • Own Clark's infrastructure architecture and cloud environment
  • Stand up security, compliance, and infrastructure processes
  • Own the customer security-review pipeline
  • Improve deployment, observability, monitoring, and incident response
  • Partner with engineering on reliability and scalability
  • Create infrastructure standards, access controls, and operational best practices
  • Prepare Clark for future compliance frameworks and audits
  • Build the foundation for a future infrastructure/security team
  • Partner with Sales, CS, and Product on customer security questions


Who You Are
  • 6+ years of infrastructure, platform, security, DevOps, or SRE experience
  • Experience owning production infrastructure in a high-growth company
  • Strong cloud infrastructure experience
  • Strong understanding of security, access control, reliability, and compliance
  • Experience supporting enterprise security reviews
  • Able to operate as a hands-on solo owner before building a team
  • Strong communication with engineering, GTM, and customer-facing teams
  • High ownership and operational discipline


Bonus
  • Experience with SOC 2, ISO, or similar compliance frameworks
  • Experience in fintech, compliance, accounting, audit, healthcare, or other regulated industries
  • Experience at an early-stage startup
  • Experience building infrastructure teams
  • Experience supporting AI-native or document-heavy products

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