Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Mach Industries•Huntington Beach, CA

1d•$170,000 - $225,000

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 to enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer builds and supports the infrastructure used by engineering and business teams. The role takes systems, network, and cloud capabilities from design through production, using automation and reusable patterns to improve delivery and support. It includes building internal AI tooling and partnering with the AI Platform Engineer on secure integrations and reusable infrastructure, with appropriate access controls and human review for consequential actions. Applicants must meet applicable U.S. Government export-control eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain required authorizations. Offers may be conditioned on authorization to receive controlled software or technology without sponsorship for an export license. The position may require extended hours and weekends as needed.

Requirements

At least 6 years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering, including ownership of new builds from design through production.
At least 3 years building infrastructure automation with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or Ansible, and scripting in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
Hands-on experience deploying infrastructure on at least one major cloud platform, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
Strong systems or networking expertise, with working knowledge of operating systems, virtualization, storage, identity, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, and connectivity.
Experience delivering repeatable infrastructure changes through Git, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, and configuration validation or drift detection.
Ability to build secure internal tools and API integrations, manage permissions and secrets, document designs, and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
Availability to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, qualifying refugee, or qualifying asylee, or be eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations for export-control compliance.

Nice To Haves

Experience with new-site builds, hybrid environments, or infrastructure delivery in a growing engineering or manufacturing organization.
Experience delivering internal AI tools or agent workflows with evaluations, access controls, and appropriate human review.
Relevant cloud, networking, or automation certifications.
Experience building self-service platforms used by multiple teams.

Responsibilities

Design and deliver infrastructure for services, environments, and sites, balancing reliability, security, capacity, and cost.
Build connected systems, network, and cloud foundations, including compute, storage, identity, connectivity, and core network services.
Automate provisioning, configuration, upgrades, and retirement using reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, scripts, and APIs.
Create tested delivery pipelines and self-service tools with version control, review, drift detection, secure defaults, and rollback.
Build and support internal AI tooling that helps teams automate work and access approved AI capabilities.
Partner with the AI Platform Engineer on secure integrations and reusable infrastructure, using appropriate access controls and human review for consequential actions.
Validate builds before handoff, including connectivity, monitoring, backups, recovery, and failover.
Resolve recurring problems through engineering improvements and share knowledge with the team.