Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure
About the job
About Epirus
Epirus is a high-growth technology company dedicated to overcoming the asymmetric challenges inherent to the future of national security. Epirus' flagship product, Leonidas, is a software-defined system built using intelligent power management techniques which allow power-hungry systems to do more with less.
Job Summary: The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will be working with the software team and focusing on AWS infrastructure, as well as building automation tools and pipelines. A key part of the role will be championing and leading infrastructure as code and improving automated build and test.
Responsibilities:
- Design a cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS.
- Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements.
- Provision, configure, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code.
- Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools.
- Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based systems.
- Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas.
- Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems.
- Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization.
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeBuild, S3, RDS) or 3 years of relevant experience with a Master’s degree.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure.
- Strong foundation in networking concepts and Linux system administration.
- Previous experience with Docker, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Ansible.
- Proven track record of learning and leveraging a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools.
- Experience with software testing frameworks such as PyTest, GoogleTest, Jest, React Testing Library or Playwright.
- Strong bias for action and ownership.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Comfortable writing robust code and automation scripts in Python or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements.
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
- To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
At Epirus, you’ll work with technical peers and great people—and get first crack at some of the defining technology challenges of our time. Here, “impossible” is just a challenge. We're a diverse, fast-growing team of change-makers fueling the future of energy with revolutionary solutions. Join us and rewrite the rules.
