IT Infrastructure Engineer

Dynamic Bay Area startup is seeking a Senior IT & Infrastructure Engineer who will be the engineer keeping the engineering organization running, owning the compute infrastructure, CI/CD systems, monitoring, lab equipment, and internal IT services that engineering depends on every day. This person will be hands-on across Linux administration, build pipelines, virtualization, AWS, lab operations, and tier-1 support, and partner closely with a DevOps counterpart in an overseas office on shared infrastructure standards. This is a broad, hands-on role for someone energized by being the person engineers come to when things need to work.

Most Important Responsibilities Infrastructure & Operations

• Manage compute infrastructure, including on-site lab equipment (Linux hosts, Jenkins servers, lab gear) and cloud resources.
• Administer Linux hosts across the engineering environment, including SaltStack based configuration management and NFS.
• Create and operate virtualized resources including Docker containers and KVM hosts.
• Maintain backup and disaster recovery systems for managed Linux hosts.
• Support core engineering SaaS tools (1Passwrod, GitHub, GitLab, Cursor, etc).
• Provide operational support for robotics setup, including integration or robotic testing and test results into engineering workflows.

CI/CD & Build Systems

• Design, build, and maintain automated build and deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins, targeting firmware and system image artifacts.
• Enforce code quality through integrated linting, static analysis, and test execution at pipeline quality gates.
• Extend build automation to support hardware-in-the-loop testing, bringing physical device testing into eh CI process.

Monitoring & Observability

• Own the organization's Grafana-based observability stack end-to-end, including metrics ingestion, dashboards, data retention,, and alert routing.
• Develop and maintain alerting coverage for infrastructure health scenarios such as power source changes, UPS-triggered shutdowns, storage capacity thresholds, and hardware faults.

Cloud Operations

• Administer the organization's AWS environment at an org level, including account provisioning, routine security reviews, and spend reporting.

Internal IT & Helpdesk

• Act as the primary internal IT resource for the engineering team, handling hardware, software, and access issues.
• Own onboarding workflows including account provisioning and workstation configuration.
• Liaise with third-part vendors and external IT partners on compliance initiatives, procurement, and IT-adjacent projects.

• 5+ years in a hands-on IT, systems administration, DevOps, or infrastructure role with ownership across both engineering and IT systems.
• Deep Linux administration experience including Bash scripting and configuration management (SaltStack, Ansible, or equivalent).
• Solid hands-on experience with Docker and KVM-based virtualization.
• Demonstrated experi4nece building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitHub and Jenkins with integrated testing and artifact management.
• Production experience running and maintaining Grafana observability stacks.
• Comfort administering AWS at an organizational level, including security posture and cost visibility.
• A service-oriented approach to supporting a technical engineering team.
• Ability to work on-site in the Bay Area a minimum of 3 days per week.

Nice To Have Experience

• Experience managing external vendor relationships and navigating compliance or audit processes.
• Background working in regulated or security-conscious engineering environments.
• Prior experience in a fast-paced startup or early-stage company
• Experience supporting embedded or firmware engineering teams with HITL pipeline integration.
• Familiarity with wireless or cellular networking technologies at a practical level.
• Hands-on experience with physical lab environment, test rigs, or robotic test systems.
• Background with Elasticsearch, particularly in a maintenance, mitigation, or depreciation context.