Sr. Infrastructure Engineer - Deployment Team

Job description

This engineer will work directly with customers and cross-functionally with sales, product engineering, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, secure platform deployments. Our customers include defense, aerospace, and commercial organizations operating in regulated, security-sensitive environments; this engineer should be comfortable operating within established security and compliance baselines across AWS GovCloud, Azure IL5, on-premises, and air-gapped networks.

The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on infrastructure expertise with customer-facing communication skills, a consulting mindset, and a bias toward automation.

Core Responsibilities

Deploy and maintain the Istari platform in customer environments using Terraform and Helm across multiple deployment variants (EKS, AKS, OpenShift, on-premises Kubernetes)

Support customer networking requirements including firewall rule scoping, VPN/IPSec configuration, DNS coordination, and connectivity troubleshooting

Configure and troubleshoot identity provider integrations (Zitadel, SAML, OIDC, SSO with KeyCloak, PingFederate, Okta, Azure AD)

Enable and operate services for cross-organization data sharing, including Secure Sync deployment, KMS policy exchange, IAM roles, and S3 access configuration

Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code packages and reference architectures for customer-managed deployments

Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex infrastructure issues with clear and timely customer communication

Qualifications

Minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Network Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering

Solid understanding of cloud networking, VPN/IPSec, firewalls, IAM, and secrets management

Experience with identity providers and federation protocols (SAML, OIDC, SSO, Active Directory)

Database knowledge including transaction write-ahead logging, backup/restore operations, and monitoring

Experience with graph query languages (SPARQL, Cypher, DQL, or similar)

Proven experience operating Kubernetes in production

Experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes application packaging

Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or Ansible

Experience working directly with external customers in a technical delivery or consulting capacity

Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in complex production environments

Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

U.S. Citizen

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with AWS GovCloud, Azure Government (IL4/IL5), or other regulated cloud environments

Experience with OpenShift, ROSA, or non-standard Kubernetes distributions

Familiarity with compliance or security frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST, SOC 2, CMMC, or similar

Industry certifications such as CompTIA (Network+, Security+, Linux+), AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS SysOps Administrator Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, or similar

Experience with network analysis tools (Wireshark, tcpdump)

Experience with PostgreSQL, cloud storage platforms, and production networking patterns

Experience with service mesh or advanced Kubernetes networking (Istio, Envoy)

Active security clearance (Secret or Top Secret)

About Istari Digital

Istari is a digital engineering software company building open, scalable infrastructure for engineering data. Our platform lets customers simply and securely integrate engineering models across disciplines, organizations, and security levels -- whether they''re designing prototypes, performing virtual testing, or training AI and autonomy for complex systems.

Focus is rewarded. Finish is remembered.

Facts are friendly. Even when they are not fun.

Fellowship is fundamental. Make others successful.

$135,000 - $220,000 a year

The anticipated compensation range for this position may vary based on experience, skills, qualifications, location, and business needs. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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Skills:

Aerospace and Defense, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Communication Skills, CompTIA - Computing Technology Industry Association, CompTIA Linux+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, Consulting, Cross-Functional, Customer Relations, Customer Support/Service, DNS (Domain Name System), Data Recovery, Database Programming Languages, DevOps, Engineering Software, Firewalls, High Tech Industry, IPsec (IP Security), Identify Issues, Identity Federation, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Windows Azure, Network Architecture/Engineering, Network Performance/Analysis, Network Support, Operational Support, PostgreSQL, Pre-Sales, Problem Solving Skills, Product Engineering, Production Systems, Prototyping, Reliability Engineering, SPARQL, Sales, Scalable System Development, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Single Sign-On (SSO), System Operations, Systems Administration/Management, Technical Consulting, Technical Delivery, Technical Sales, Testing, Time Management, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States Citizen, VPN (Virtual Private Network), Wireshark (Ethereal), tcpdump

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