Infrastructure Engineer

Mach Industries•Huntington Beach, CA

2d•$115,000 - $175,000

About The Position

Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company founded in 2023, with approximately 350 employees. It develops next-generation autonomous defense platforms and scalable, decentralized defense systems intended to strengthen the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. The Infrastructure Engineer operates and improves production infrastructure that supports engineering and business teams. The role applies established systems, network, and cloud patterns, automates recurring work, and maintains dependable services. The engineer handles routine changes independently within agreed limits and seeks review for unfamiliar designs or higher-impact work.

Requirements

At least 3 years of infrastructure, systems, or cloud engineering experience, including hands-on administration and troubleshooting of production services within an assigned domain.
Practical knowledge of operating systems, networking, or cloud services, including related dependencies and recognizing when specialist support is needed.
Ability to use version control, infrastructure definitions, and scripting to deliver repeatable changes with understandable error handling and reviewable implementation.
Experience using monitoring and diagnostic evidence to investigate incidents, assess capacity or resource use, and communicate findings to service partners.
Ability to carry out controlled changes and restore or configuration-recovery procedures, including validation, rollback planning, and applying approved access controls.
Clear documentation and collaboration skills, with sound judgment about assigned service responsibilities, timely escalation, and follow-through on operational improvements.
Available to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State, to conform to U.S. Government export regulations.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting connected infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments, including understanding their operational dependencies and constraints.
Experience improving shared infrastructure-as-code modules or reusable operational workflows through peer-reviewed contributions and clear documentation.
Experience using incident and maintenance findings to reduce repeated manual work and improve operational runbooks.

Responsibilities

Operate assigned infrastructure services, maintaining configurations, dependencies, inventory, and approved access controls while coordinating service needs with engineering and business partners.
Provision resources using established infrastructure-as-code patterns and automate recurring tasks with maintainable, reviewable scripts; request review for unfamiliar designs.
Monitor health, capacity, configuration drift, and resource use; investigate incidents and escalate unfamiliar failures or broader risks with diagnostic evidence.
Deliver scoped patches, upgrades, and configuration changes with impact checks, peer review, validation, rollback guidance, and documented recovery exercises.
Maintain runbooks, backup and configuration-recovery workflows, and incident records; share service knowledge and turn recurring operational problems into reusable improvements.