Lastwall

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Lastwall

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Hawaii

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerEC2GraphQLJavaScriptKubernetesNode.jsPostgresPrometheusRustTCP/IPTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • Drive the continuous improvement and high-availability operation of our FedRAMP-High compliant infrastructure.
  • Manage and mentor a team of Infrastructure Software Engineers, leading Infrastructure and Platform Engineering efforts.
  • Leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage large-scale, distributed systems with a strong emphasis on security, reliability, and automation.
  • Champion modern practices in architecture, observability, and operability.
  • Advocate for secure, scalable design decisions and guide your team in making optimal trade-offs.
  • Significantly shape the evolution of our platform, ensuring reliability and performance for critical life and safety applications.
  • Enhance and maintain tooling for seamless testing and deployments, fostering rapid feedback and high collaboration between product and infrastructure teams.
  • Act as a hands-on tech lead manager, deepening the team’s use of tools like Terraform, Node/TypeScript, and Rust.
  • Apply proven experience with managing infrastructure/reliability teams, driving practices such as toil reduction, incident response/management, and Learning From Incidents (LFI).

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science OR equivalent experience
  • Minimum 5 years industry experience in cloud-native environments
  • Minimum 3 years of team lead/management experience
  • US or Dual US/Canadian citizenship
  • Experience with IaC: AWS CDK, Terraform Cloud
  • Experience with Containers: EC2, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Networking: TCP/IP
  • CI/CD: GitLab, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy
  • Observability & Security: CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, security scanning/automation, Prometheus
  • Databases & Search: Postgres, RDS, Aurora, Amazon OpenSearch
  • Compliance: FedRAMP/NIST-800, GovCloud deployment, FIPS-140-2
  • Operational Tooling & Programming: Node.js, TypeScript, Bash scripting, Rust
  • Other Skills: GraphQL, building/managing secure, scalable distributed systems
  • Leadership: Experience leading a high-performing engineering team