Lead the most critical, high-leverage infrastructure initiatives across the engineering organization.
Design and own the technical quality bar and architectural standards for Fieldguide’s infrastructure.
Build platforms and AI-enabled systems that unlock new product and delivery capabilities for multiple teams.
Identify and execute on work that materially accelerates delivery across engineering.
Partner with executives to shape and communicate technical and AI strategy.
Ensure infrastructure security and compliance by setting organization-wide standards for identity management, network segmentation, secrets handling, and vulnerability management.
Bootstrap large reliability, automation, and platform initiatives that fundamentally improve how teams operate.
Mentor senior engineers and tech leads to become force multipliers themselves.
Remain hands-on where it creates the greatest leverage — including incident response, architecture reviews, and high-stakes technical decisions.
Represent Fieldguide’s technical excellence and help attract top-tier infrastructure talent.

Requirements

10+ years of hands-on experience constructing complex cloud solutions using multiple AWS services.
Skilled in provisioning and configuring cloud services using Terraform and the AWS CLI / API.
Proficiency in designing effective monitoring/alerting and log aggregation solutions using tools like Datadog and AWS CloudWatch (New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, etc.)
Solid understanding of data systems, including both SQL and NoSQL.
Experience in developing and maintaining software in security and regulatory compliance environments (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, etc.)
Comfortable participating in on-call support to ensure 24/7 availability of services.
Passion for mentoring and coaching other engineers.
Excellent communication and organizational skills and are capable of managing multiple competing priorities.
Demonstrated org-level impact: creating frameworks, platforms, or automation that have accelerated multiple engineering teams.
Excel at translating complex technical concepts into business impact and are comfortable partnering with executives.
Widely trusted and sought out as a technical leader across an organization.

Benefits

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud solutionsAWS servicesTerraformAWS CLImonitoring solutionsalerting solutionslog aggregationSQLNoSQLsecurity compliance

Soft Skills

mentoringcoachingcommunicationorganizational skillsmanaging prioritiestranslating technical conceptstechnical leadership

Certifications

SOC 2PCI-DSSHIPAA