Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Vast•Long Beach, CA

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Vast is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to support the development of systems required to design and build human-rated space stations. Reporting to the Manager, IT Infrastructure, this role offers the opportunity to build modern IT infrastructure from the ground up, using a cloud-first approach focused on researching and deploying current technologies and paradigms. The position is full-time, exempt, and located in Long Beach, California.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise IT infrastructure.
Proficiency with public cloud systems such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience with infrastructure as code, including Terraform, GitOps, Ansible, and/or Puppet.
Broad IT expertise and ability to integrate infrastructure with networking, security, DevOps, and software development.

Nice To Haves

Experience with self-hosted AI systems, AI agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) platforms.
Experience writing Lambdas and scripts to automate configuration and recurring tasks.
Understanding of networking protocols and infrastructure, including BGP, VPNs, DNS, and DHCP.
Experience working with ITAR-, NIST-, FIPS-, and FedRAMP-compliant systems.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to people unfamiliar with them and gathering requirements from cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

Independently design, build, and maintain complex, highly available, secure, and cost-optimized systems across AWS, Kubernetes, and Linux/Windows server environments.
Write high-quality infrastructure-as-code and automation to improve system reliability and maintainability.
Serve as technical lead for infrastructure projects by setting roadmaps and pacing, breaking work into milestones and tasks, and coordinating work among team members.
Provide quality support for systems, respond urgently to issues, and identify root causes to prevent recurrence.

Benefits

Company equity.
Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
Paid time off, including up to 20+ days of vacation for exempt staff, with the ability to cash out unused vacation annually.
Paid parental leave.
Short- and long-term disability insurance.
Life insurance.
Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
ClassPass credits.
Personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health.
Other discounts and perks.
Free snacks, drip coffee, cold drinks, and dinner meals; subsidized lunch.
Onsite barista.