7+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, platform, SRE, or systems engineering, preferably in complex software environments.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Strong background in operating distributed systems in production cloud infrastructures.
Proficient in automation, infrastructure as code, and deployment management.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and supporting developer workflows.
Familiarity with major cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Proficient in Linux systems, security controls, and monitoring practices.
Responsibilities
Lead the design and management of secure, reliable infrastructure for Lastwall's identity platform.
Build and optimize cloud systems across development, staging, and production environments.
Develop automation for provisioning and configuration management using infrastructure as code.
Enhance system reliability and performance through monitoring and incident response.
Implement secure infrastructure practices for compliance-driven environments.
Collaborate with software developers to enhance CI/CD practices and deployment workflows.
Engage in incident response, troubleshooting, and operational improvements.
Benefits
Technical mentorship opportunities to elevate team expertise.
Collaboration with developers to influence product delivery and infrastructure maturity.
Involvement in shaping infrastructure standards as the company scales.
Work in a dynamic environment where adaptability and ownership are valued.
Full Job Description
The Role
Infrastructure Leadership
Lead the design, implementation, and operation of secure, reliable infrastructure that supports Lastwall's identity platform. Help define infrastructure standards, operating practices, and technical direction as the company scales.
Cloud & Platform Operations
Build, manage, and improve cloud-based systems across development, staging, and production environments. Support infrastructure that is scalable, observable, secure, and resilient for enterprise and government customers.
Automation & Infrastructure as Code
Develop and maintain automation for provisioning, deployment, configuration, and environment management. Use infrastructure-as-code practices to improve repeatability, reduce manual effort, and support secure change management.
Reliability, Observability & Performance
Improve system reliability through monitoring, alerting, logging, metrics, and incident response practices. Help define and track service health, availability, performance, and operational readiness.
Security & Compliance-Driven Infrastructure
Apply secure infrastructure practices across cloud environments, access controls, secrets management, networking, deployment pipelines, and production operations. Support compliance-driven requirements for regulated and high-trust customers.
CI/CD & Developer Enablement
Partner with software developers to improve build, test, deployment, and release workflows. Help maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines that support secure and efficient delivery of Lastwall's products.
Incident Response & Operational Ownership
Participate in production support, troubleshooting, incident response, and Learning From Incidents. Bring structure to operational issues and help improve systems so recurring problems are addressed at the source.
Technical Mentorship
Provide technical mentorship to engineers working with infrastructure, deployment, and production systems. Help raise the team's infrastructure maturity through documentation, review, guidance, and practical standards.
What You Bring
7+ years of professional infrastructure, DevOps, platform, SRE, or systems engineering experience, ideally in SaaS, cybersecurity, identity, government technology, or other complex software environments.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Strong experience operating distributed systems in production cloud infrastructure, including secure, reliable, and scalable systems.
Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, environment management, and repeatable deployment practices.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, build systems, deployment automation, and developer enablement.
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar.
Experience with EC2, Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads.
Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, security controls, and production operations.
Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and incident response.
Familiarity with secure infrastructure practices, including access control, secrets management, segmentation, vulnerability management, and least-privilege design.
Ability to work independently and lead technical initiatives end-to-end, from design through implementation, documentation, and operational handoff.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across engineering, security, product, and operations.
Comfort in a small but growing company, where ownership, adaptability, and practical execution matter.
Nice to Have
Strong AWS experience, ideally including AWS GovCloud or similarly regulated cloud environments.
Experience working in FedRAMP, government, defense, critical infrastructure, or other regulated environments.
Experience with containerized environments, such as Docker and orchestration platforms.
Experience supporting Rust, PostgreSQL, and modern web application infrastructure.
Experience with compliance frameworks, audit evidence collection, or secure change-management processes.
Experience with high-availability architecture, disaster recovery, backup strategy, and resilience planning.
Familiarity with authentication, identity, PKI, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, or Zero Trust architectures.
Experience mentoring engineers or helping lead an infrastructure, DevOps, platform, or SRE function.
