Infrastructure & Security Engineer

CivilGrid

Infrastructure & Security Engineer for SaaS construction tech company managing AWS platform reliability and security. Drive cloud initiatives and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance security posture.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeBoston • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $155,544 - $175,320 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSSDLCTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own our AWS environment end to end: VPC architecture, ECS, RDS, secrets management, IAM, networking, and cost optimization
Define and improve reliability practices: SLOs, observability, alerting, on-call rotation, runbooks, and blameless post-incident reviews
Lead incident response for both reliability and security events, from detection through resolution and follow-up
Define and enforce policies for identity, secrets, data handling, and production access across the company
Partner with engineering to embed reliability and security into the SDLC and infrastructure decisions
Run our security program: SOC 2 readiness and audits, vendor reviews, access controls, endpoint security, and threat modeling

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of experience across DevOps, SRE, platform, or security engineering, with hands-on ownership of production AWS infrastructure
Deep working knowledge of AWS (VPC, ECS, RDS, IAM, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK, or equivalent)
Track record of improving reliability in production: defining SLOs, building observability, running on-call, and leading post-incident reviews
Experience running or supporting a SOC 2 program, including evidence collection, control design, and auditor coordination
Startup ready: autonomous, moves fast, takes initiative without being asked
Strong verbal and written communication, able to articulate ideas clearly and collaborate effectively
Bonus: experience supporting B2B products sold into regulated industries (utilities, energy, public sector)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Interesting and challenging work
Lots of room for growth
Competitive salary and equity
Health insurance
Flexible and remote-friendly work environment
FSA (health and dependent care)
Unlimited PTO

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSVPCECSRDSIAMSecrets ManagerCloudWatchinfrastructure-as-codeTerraformCDK

Soft Skills

autonomousinitiativeverbal communicationwritten communicationcollaboration