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# Founding Infrastructure Engineer

- **Company:** CIVIC ROUNDTABLE, INC.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software System Penetration Testing, System Configuration, DevOps, Programming Tools, Domain Name System (DNS), Github, Reliability Engineering, Terraform
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=009049d5a8c36014

## About the Role

We're excited about people who:

 * Prefer autonomy (and the ambiguity that comes with it) to explicit direction
 * Notice broken systems and instinctively want to improve them
 * Write exceptionally well and communicate clearly under pressure
 * Can independently own multiple priorities and know when to loop others in
 * Thrive in early-stage environments where the job changes week-to-week
 * Care about making government work better for the people it serves

We're hoping you have:

 * 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, platform, or security engineering roles
 * High confidence with AWS, Terraform, and Github Actions
 * Familiarity with security compliance frameworks (SOC 2, FedRAMP, NIST, CJIS, HIPAA, or similar)
 * Fluency with AI dev tools, both for your own IaC and to enable product engineers

## Description

We're looking for a founding infrastructure engineer to own our cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, security, and compliance. As our first and only platform hire, your goal will be to enable engineers to move fast with confidence, while meeting the high standards of government technology.

This role will report to and work closely with our Head of Engineering.

What You'll Own

 * Platform & infrastructure - AWS GovCloud, Terraform codebase, reliability, performance, and cost
 * Developer tooling - CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions), local dev environment setup, and AI-enablement across the team
 * Security & compliance - SOC 2 audits, NIST alignment, pen test coordination, access reviews, policy maintenance, and pursuit of additional authorizations
 * Internal IT - the lightweight day-to-day (password resets, device issues) that keeps the team unblocked

What You'll Support

 * Technical pre-sales - occasional prospect calls and security questionnaires, partnering with our go-to-market team
 * Technical services - ad hoc support for customer requests like SSO or DNS setup, partnering with our deployments team
 * Product engineering - infrastructure and scaling input for new product surfaces, partnering with our product managers and engineering leads


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