Infrastructure Engineer

DriveWealth•New York, NY

9h•Hybrid

About The Position

As a seasoned Infrastructure Engineer, you will design, manage, and scale our high-performance computing environments. This role bridges the gap between traditional system administration and modern platform engineering, focusing on reliability, automation, and the stringent security requirements of the financial services industry. You will be responsible for a hybrid ecosystem that spans AWS cloud and on-premise systems, ensuring 99.99% uptime for mission-critical services and transactions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or a related field
3+ years of experience in Linux Administration or Infrastructure Engineering
Deep knowledge of system performance profiling (e.g., top, iostat, strace) and comfort with Linux system fundamentals (i.e. Systemd, LVM, and Cron)
Strong proficiency in Ansible and Terraform for infrastructure and system automation. Bash and/or Python experience for custom tooling as required
Hands-on experience with AWS Networking fundamentals (VPCs, Routing Tables, and Nat Gateways). Solid understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, and routing protocols like BGP or OSPF
Experience with container runtimes in a Production environment (Docker / Podman, Docker Compose). Kubernetes experience is a plus
Ability to perform root-cause analysis on complex distributed systems
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor an employment Visa at this time.

Nice To Haves

Experience working within regulated environments such as SOC2, or FINRA
Experience building multi-region, failover-capable architectures for mission-critical financial transactions
Architecting deployment pipelines using GitHub actions, familiarity with AWS Secrets Manager for managing sensitive secrets, and other DevOps toolchain services
Basic understanding of financial messaging or low-latency requirements, such as FIX protocol
Experience with WAF, DDoS mitigation strategies, and tuning edge application services such as HAProxy
CompTIA Linux+, RHCSA/RHCE, or AWS SysOps Administrator certifications

Responsibilities

Design and manage high-performance Linux environments including Ubuntu, RHEL, or Amazon Linux. Focus on tuning for low- latency financial applications and system-level hardening
Architect and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, treating infrastructure as a software project with version control and peer reviews
Manage connectivity between cloud environments and on-premise systems, focusing on secure VPC design, VPNs, and routing
Manage physical switches, routers, and firewalls, with an understanding of multicast, VLANs, and interface aggregation
Build and optimize deployment pipelines to ensure system updates, patches, and application code are deployed safely and frequently
Implement comprehensive monitoring (using Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana) to track system SLIs/SLOs and implement automated alerting or self-healing scripts
Support and scale Docker / Podman environments, focusing on pod networking and container runtimes
Implement "shift-left" security, including OS-level hardening (SELinux, AppArmor), automated vulnerability scanning, and IAM policy refinement