The Lead Infrastructure Engineer will improve and maintain FedRAMP-high compliant infrastructure, mentor DevOps engineers, and support automation with coding in several technologies.
hatch I.T. is partnering with Lastwall to find a Lead Infrastructure Engineer. See details below:
About the Company:
Lastwall is a cybersecurity company with offices in the United States and Canada, specializing in the development and delivery of highly secure, identity-centric, and quantum-resilient cybersecurity solutions. They aim to build innovative, security-first technologies designed for compliance-driven and threat-intensive environments such as those found in defense, government, and critical infrastructure sectors.
Their solutions are engineered with a security-first approach, leveraging cutting-edge advancements in identity and digital defense to outpace threat actors and protect sensitive systems from evolving cyber threats. By focusing on inhibiting the efficacy of adversaries and exponentially bolstering client security, they provide essential tools to safeguard operations in some of the most mission-critical industries.
If you’re a US Citizen that is passionate about working at the forefront of cybersecurity technology in environments that demand unparalleled security and reliability, they’d love to have you join their US-based team!
Responsibilities:
- As the Lead Infrastructure Engineer, you'll drive the continuous improvement and high-availability operation of our FedRAMP-High compliant infrastructure, as well as managing and mentoring a team of Infrastructure SWEs responsible for our Infrastructure and Platform Engineering efforts. As an AWS GovCloud shop, we leverage infrastructure as code (IaC) to manage large-scale, distributed systems with a focus on security, reliability, and automation, in accordance with the most stringent FedRAMP compliance practices.
- We’re seeking a seasoned engineer to lead our next wave of infrastructure improvements, championing modern practices in architecture, observability, and operability. You’ll advocate for secure, scalable design decisions, and guide your co-workers in making optimal trade-offs to build the best infrastructure possible for our customers’ needs. Your role will significantly shape our platform’s evolution, helping to ensure that we deliver the reliability and performance our customers demand, even in critical life and safety applications.
- In addition to our production services infrastructure, you’ll also enhance and maintain our tooling for seamless testing and deployments of our product and other code, fostering rapid feedback as well as high collaboration and mutual support between product and infrastructure development in the service of our users' success.
- This hands-on tech-lead manager must exhibit strong coding skills, deepening our use of tools like Terraform, Node/Typescript, and Rust. Good familiarity, or the ability to quickly learn and apply these technologies, is essential, as is proven experience with managing infrastructure and reliability teams, functions, and practices (Toil reduction, Incident Response/Management, LFI, etc.)
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR EQUIVALENT EXPERIENCE
- Minimum 5 years industry experience in cloud-native environments.
- Minimum 3 years Team Lead Management experience
- US or Dual US/Canadian citizenship
- AWS CDK and Terraform for infrastructure as code
- EC2, Docker, K8s and containerized workloads
- TCP/IP Networking
- CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy)
- Observability with CloudWatch and security scanning/automation
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Postgres / RDS / Aurora
- Amazon OpenSearch
- FedRAMP/NIST-800, GovCloud deployment, and FIPS-140-2 compliance
- NodeJS / TypeScript for operational tooling
- GraphQL
- Bash scripting
- Rust
- Building and managing secure, scalable, distributed cloud systems
- Leading a high-performing engineering team with both compassion and focus.
Exposure and experience to a portion of the following is needed:
Top Skills
Aurora
AWS
Cloudwatch
Codecommit
Codedeploy
Docker
Fedramp
Fips-140-2
Gitlab
Govcloud
Nist-800
Node.js
Postgres
Rds
Rust
Terraform
Typescript
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