Senior Infrastructure Engineer

NxT Level•New York, NY

About The Position

The Senior Cloud Infrastructure & Security Engineer will own the company’s cloud infrastructure and connectivity across customer environments, while strengthening and maintaining its SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 security compliance programs. This hands-on role combines DevOps, cloud networking, security engineering, and compliance. The engineer will work with engineering teams and enterprise customers to solve infrastructure challenges, automate deployments, and support secure operation across AWS, GCP, Azure, and hybrid environments. The role focuses on building and maintaining reliable, secure, scalable cloud infrastructure; improving enterprise connectivity; and maintaining security controls and compliance processes. The engineer will help shape infrastructure architecture and standards as the company scales its AI-native platform for enterprise SAP environments.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Security Engineering.
Strong hands-on experience with Terraform in production environments.
Deep expertise with AWS infrastructure, including VPC, IAM, networking, VPNs, and compute services.
Strong networking fundamentals involving firewalls, routing, DNS, subnets, VPNs, and CIDR planning.
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or comparable security compliance frameworks.
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across complex cloud and networking environments.
Ability to work directly with enterprise customer IT and security teams.
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, security, and business teams.
Comfort taking ownership in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with GCP, Azure, or multi-cloud infrastructure.
Experience with Vanta, AWS GuardDuty, CloudWatch, or similar security and monitoring tools.
Experience working with enterprise or regulated customers in finance, manufacturing, or other security-sensitive industries.
Familiarity with SAP environments or enterprise software integrations.
Experience building automation scripts, infrastructure tooling, or network diagnostics.
Experience supporting SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits.
Previous experience at an early-stage startup or high-growth technology company.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain Terraform modules for cloud infrastructure, primarily on AWS.
Manage CI/CD pipelines and deployments using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
Build secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure supporting enterprise AI applications.
Develop automation and internal tools to improve deployment reliability and infrastructure management.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve production cloud environments.
Troubleshoot connectivity between company infrastructure and enterprise customer environments.
Resolve networking issues involving VPNs, firewalls, routing, DNS, subnets, and CIDR conflicts.
Collaborate directly with customer IT and network engineering teams.
Design secure connectivity solutions across AWS, GCP, Azure, and hybrid cloud or on-premises infrastructure.
Build monitoring and diagnostic tools to proactively detect infrastructure and connectivity issues.
Maintain and improve SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 compliance programs.
Manage evidence collection, security controls, policies, and documentation using Vanta or similar platforms.
Coordinate internal security practices and ensure ongoing compliance.
Support external audits, penetration tests, and remediation efforts.
Automate security and compliance workflows to reduce manual overhead.
Partner with engineering and leadership to improve the company’s overall security posture.