Senior Infrastructure Leader

Senior Infrastructure Leader

## Mission

Build and operate the company's corporate IT, cloud, identity and technology infrastructure from the ground up, creating a secure and scalable foundation for a rapidly growing AI company.

## Your Impact

**Corporate IT & Employee Technology**

- Design and establish the company's corporate IT environment, including email, collaboration tools, endpoint management and employee technology provisioning.

- Build automated employee onboarding and offboarding processes that scale with headcount growth.

- Establish laptop provisioning, endpoint security, patching and device-management standards across the company.

**Identity, Access & AI Platforms**

- Own company-wide identity and access management, including SSO, MFA, RBAC and privileged access administration.

- Establish and administer enterprise AI platforms including Claude, OpenAI/ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and other approved AI tools, ensuring secure and governed rollout across the org.

**Cloud & Infrastructure**

- Build and maintain AWS/Azure/GCP cloud organizations, accounts, networking, IAM and foundational infrastructure.

- Establish infrastructure-as-code standards using Terraform/OpenTofu or equivalent, so infrastructure is versioned, reviewable and repeatable rather than click-ops.

- Own GitHub organization administration and foundational developer tooling in partnership with engineering.

- Implement secure management of credentials, API keys, certificates and secrets.

- Establish centralized logging, monitoring, alerting and infrastructure observability.

- Implement backup, disaster-recovery and business-continuity capabilities.

**Governance, Spend & Security**

- Establish SaaS procurement, license management and technology inventory processes.

- Manage cloud and SaaS spend, budgets and FinOps controls as the company scales.

- Establish baseline security controls and support SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness as compliance requirements emerge.

- Develop policies, standards and documentation so infrastructure doesn't depend on tribal knowledge.

**Team Building**

- Build the infrastructure/IT team as company requirements grow, hiring and mentoring engineers once scale justifies it not before.

## What We'd Look For

We'd favor a builder/operator over someone who spent the last ten years administering a mature Fortune 500 environment. This role is for someone who is energized by greenfield problems, comfortable with ambiguity, and willing to be hands-on with the keyboard well past the point most leaders at this level stop being.

## You're Our Senior Infrastructure Leader If

• You have 1012+ years of experience across infrastructure, IT and cloud operations, with hands-on depth in several of: AWS/Azure/GCP, Google Workspace/M365, Okta/Entra, VDI, GitHub, Terraform, endpoint management, SSO/OIDC/SAML, networking/DNS, secrets management, CI/CD, observability and security controls.
• You have demonstrated experience building technology infrastructure in an early-stage or rapidly scaling organization not just operating infrastructure someone else designed.
• You think in terms of secure, scalable foundations, and you document and codify as you go so nothing depends on tribal knowledge.
• You're comfortable owning a wide surface area IT, identity, cloud, security posture and vendor/spend management before there's a team to delegate to.
• You have a bias for action and are willing to make pragmatic tradeoffs to unblock a fast-moving company, while still building toward compliance-ready standards (SOC 2 / ISO 27001) as the company matures.
• You can operate independently with minimal existing process, and you're motivated by building the process rather than waiting for someone else to define it.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Experience standing up governance and access controls for enterprise AI platforms (Claude, ChatGPT/OpenAI, Gemini, Copilot).

- Prior experience taking a company through SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 readiness.

- Experience building out an infrastructure/IT function and hiring its first engineers.

- FinOps experience managing multi-cloud and SaaS spend at a growing company.