Infrastructure Manager

IPinfo • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

We're looking for a hands-on Infrastructure Manager to lead our infra team. This isn't a purely strategic or people-management role, we need someone who still enjoys being in the weeds: debugging a noisy alert at 2 AM, reviewing a Terraform PR, or getting on a call mid-incident to help mitigate a DDoS attack in real time.

You'll own the reliability, scalability, and security of infrastructure that handles high-volume, latency-sensitive traffic at global scale, while growing and mentoring a small team of engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years in infrastructure/SRE/platform engineering roles, including significant hands-on scaling experience
• 5+ years of experience managing or leading an infrastructure/SRE team, while staying technically hands-on
• Proven experience defending large-scale services against DDoS attacks (mitigation strategies, tooling, live incident response not just theoretical knowledge)
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), networking fundamentals (BGP, DNS, CDN, load balancing), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and experience operating distributed, high-availability systems at scale
• Track record of leading incident response for critical, customer-facing infrastructure
• Comfortable balancing technical depth with people leadership as this role is genuinely both
• Excellent communication skills; able to explain technical trade-offs to both engineers and leadership

Nice To Haves

• Experience with high-volume API infrastructure or data-heavy platforms
• Familiarity with Anycast networking and edge/CDN architectures
• Background in a company that has weathered significant/sustained DDoS campaigns
• Contributions to open-source infra tooling

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the infrastructure team while remaining directly involved in architecture, coding, and operations
• Own the design and evolution of infrastructure serving high-throughput, low-latency workloads at scale
• Lead DDoS mitigation strategy and incident response from architecture-level protections to live handling of active attacks
• Drive capacity planning, cost optimization, and performance tuning across the stack
• Improve observability, alerting, and on-call practices to reduce time-to-detect and time-to-resolve
• Own infrastructure security posture in collaboration with the security function
• Balance team growth and process maturity with the need to keep shipping and firefighting when it matters
• Participate in on-call rotation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed