Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines for a small product team as its sole infrastructure engineer. The work covers release automation, cloud security, infrastructure as code, monitoring and cost efficiency, all as a hands-on individual contributor who builds and runs the systems directly.

What you'll do

• Design, refactor and maintain build and deployment pipelines for several applications and internal workflows across two cloud environments.
• Set up cloud architecture and security controls, including access policies, network isolation, encryption, secrets handling, logging and automated vulnerability management.
• Partner with the technical lead and a small engineering group to provide reliable, observable and easily reversible releases.
• Codify environments as infrastructure definitions, and put in place observability, paging, data protection and outage playbooks across development, staging and production.
• Set up networking and access for internal compute resources so engineers can use them independently.
• Improve performance, availability and cloud cost efficiency, and support customer security reviews with documented controls and evidence.

What we're looking for

• 2 to 5 years of hands-on cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering or site reliability experience.
• Experience designing and running production CI/CD and deployment pipelines.
• A hands-on history of creating a cloud environment in a young company or compact group, not just inheriting one.
• Experience operating production systems on AWS, including compute, networking, identity, storage and databases.
• Infrastructure as code experience in production with a common tool.
• Comfort working independently and owning work end to end on a fast-moving team.

Bonus points

• Experience with government cloud or other regulated cloud environments with strict compliance requirements.
• Broader security expertise, for example writing security policies, offensive testing or vulnerability research.

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 155,000 to 180,000
• Equity

Location and work model

• San Francisco, CA, United States
• On-site, 5 days a week
• Full-time