Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Introduction 

At Finite State, our mission is to protect the devices that power our modern lives by illuminating the vulnerabilities and threats within their complex software supply chains. We are leveraging massive amounts of data to solve the next generation of security problems generated by the Internet of Things (IoT).

We are a fast-growing series-B company with a fully distributed workforce. Our mission-driven team brings deep experience serving the U.S. Intelligence Community and Fortune 500 companies, with backgrounds in security research, reverse engineering, and policy. We’re committed to a remote first culture.

Role summary

Finite State is looking for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer. In this role, you will work on building and maintaining scalable and highly available infrastructure for our world-class information security products. You will provide technical leadership to other members of the infrastructure team while applying industry best practices. We value your eagerness to learn and stay current with recent developments. You will collaborate with multiple engineering and product teams. This role reports to an Engineering Manager.

***You must be based in Canada.

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer, you will:

• Build and enhance our AWS Cloud Infrastructure, as well as on-premise deployments.

• Fully automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.

• Propose, plan, and lead  projects to update and improve our infrastructure.

• Act as a thought leader in how to leverage AWS, Cloud, and stand-alone technologies cohesively.

• Maintain strong Cybersecurity discipline and support third party security audits.

• Work with stakeholders to understand the system requirements to meet business needs.

• Work with software developers to understand the challenges they face balancing velocity, reliability, security, and cost.

• Develop tooling that continually improves testability, eases deployments, fosters repeatability, and enables observability.

• Ensure that all relevant parties understand and participate in a healthy DevOps culture of accountability and shared responsibility.

• Mentor and coach other members of the Infrastructure Engineering team.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience managing and supporting development and production environment infrastructure in both cloud and private data centers

• A deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and Linux

• Proficiency in the core AWS technologies for security, networking, provisioning, configuration management, messaging, and monitoring

• Experience with Python and shell scripting

• A solid understanding of CI/CD processes and related metrics

• Experience establishing, automating, and managing system support

• Excellent communication, prioritization, and troubleshooting skills

• Being cool under pressure in the face of production incidents, and being able to methodically and quickly return a system to good health.

It’s a plus if you also have:

• AWS Certifications

• Experience working on small, fast-paced, teams

• Experience supporting SAAS operations for B2B enterprise accounts

• A growth mindset and ability to mentor and advise engineers across the department

• Development experience

Success path

• In 30 days you will: be actively working tickets and projects independently.

• In 60 days you will: take an active role in planning and architecting upcoming projects.

• In 90 days you will: act as a SME and point of contact for infrastructure and related needs.

What’s in it for you]

• Competitive salary with stock option grant

• Fully covered medical, dental, vision

• Unlimited PTO & outstanding parental leave

• WFH stipend

• Short and long-term disability coverage

• Life insurance

Technologies Used

• Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform 

• AWS EKS, RDS, S3

• GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

• Apache Airflow

• Keycloak, Auth0

• Replicated (supporting our on-premise offering)

• PostgreSQL, Redis, ArangoDB

• Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb

• Python, Java

• Cursor, Devin, Github Copilot, etc.

About us

Built on two decades of cybersecurity experience, our team of experts understands the hidden risks in today’s enterprise networks, where IoT vulnerabilities are quickly becoming the entry point of choice for cyber attacks.

Finite State gives cyber defenders a tactical advantage by identifying the devices running on the network and proactively analyzing firmware buried inside the IoT devices for hidden vulnerabilities. We have a sense of duty to protect the critical infrastructure we rely on including medical devices, power grids and telecommunication networks. We were founded in 2017 in Columbus, Ohio.

Finite State has a transparent, collaborative and supportive culture - we are looking for people who have a growth mindset, are curious and innovative. Our team is smart, but humble, hard working with lots of fun sprinkled in.

Finite State is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Finite State is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.