Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About the company Our client is a fast-growing software company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines for a small product team as its sole infrastructure engineer. The work covers release automation, cloud security, infrastructure as code, monitoring and cost efficiency, all as a hands-on individual contributor who builds and runs the systems directly. What you'll do - Design, refactor and maintain build and deployment pipelines for several applications and internal workflows across two cloud environments. - Set up cloud architecture and security controls, including access policies, network isolation, encryption, secrets handling, logging and automated vulnerability management. - Partner with the technical lead and a small engineering group to provide reliable, observable and easily reversible releases. - Codify environments as infrastructure definitions, and put in place observability, paging, data protection and outage playbooks across development, staging and production. - Set up networking and access for internal compute resources so engineers can use them independently. - Improve performance, availability and cloud cost efficiency, and support customer security reviews with documented controls and evidence. Requirements What we're looking for - 2 to 5 years of hands-on cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering or site reliability experience. - Experience designing and running production CI/CD and deployment pipelines. - A hands-on history of creating a cloud environment in a young company or compact group, not just inheriting one. - Experience operating production systems on AWS, including compute, networking, identity, storage and databases. - Infrastructure as code experience in production with a common tool. - Comfort working independently and owning work end to end on a fast-moving team. Bonus points - Experience with government cloud or other regulated cloud environments with strict compliance requirements. - Broader security expertise, for example writing security policies, offensive testing or vulnerability research. Benefits Compensation and benefits - Base salary: USD 155,000 to 180,000 - Equity Location and work model - San Francisco, CA, United States - On-site, 5 days a week - Full-time