Site Reliability Engineer
About The Position
At 1872 AI, we are transforming industrial manufacturing in the United States by building AI-native factories capable of lights-out production—from CAD to finished part with minimal human input. Our initial focus targets the energy and infrastructure sectors—power generation, grid infrastructure, and compute facilities—where critical supply chain bottlenecks in steel fabrication are limiting growth. You will own the infrastructure that powers our factories—cloud, edge, and the networks that connect them. You keep systems available, secure, and fast. You're as comfortable architecting zero-trust environments as you are on the factory floor troubleshooting a network switch. This role wears a lot of hats: network architecture, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, security, and whatever else it takes to keep production running.
Requirements
- Expert in Kubernetes and managing workloads across cloud (AWS/GCP) and on-premise edge servers.
- Experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, or similar.
- Strong understanding of VLANs, VPNs (Tailscale/Wireguard), firewalls, and isolating industrial networks from the internet.
- Experience with zero-trust principles, identity management (Okta/Auth0), and secure access tunnels.
- Experience standing up monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager) and building dashboards that give teams visibility into system health.
- Ability to self-direct and thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience securing endpoints and devices (MDM, MFA, encryption best practices).
- Experience scaling and monitoring CI/CD systems.
- Willingness to handle general IT admin (device setup, workspace configuration) in the early days before automating or delegating it.
Responsibilities
- Own the infrastructure that powers our factories—cloud, edge, and the networks that connect them.
- Keep systems available, secure, and fast.
- Architect zero-trust environments.
- Troubleshoot network switches on the factory floor.
- Manage network architecture, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and security to keep production running.
Benefits
- Competitive salary + significant early-stage equity.
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- 100% of employees premiums covered for medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 80% of family's premiums covered for medical, dental, and vision coverage
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
