Head of Infrastructure

Director-level individual contributor. No people management. You own the entire infrastructure stack - build it secure it scale it.

Must haves

- Production infrastructure experience in a regulated environment (HIPAA SOC2 GDPR or equivalent). Youve dealt with audits compliance controls and know why it works on my machine doesnt cut it.
- Deep Kubernetes expertise running production workloads. You troubleshoot clusters under pressure not just deploy YAML from a tutorial.
- Multi-cloud: AWS and GCP. You operate across both understand the tradeoffs and dont default to one provider for everything.
- Infrastructure as Code in production. Pulumi or Terraform. You write it you review it you own it.
- Observability and incident response. Youve built monitoring alerting and on-call systems that actually catch problems before customers do.
- Currently or recently hands-on. This is not a management track. If your last production contribution was a slide deck this role is not for you.

What youll actually do

- Design and operate the multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
- Implement and enforce HIPAA/SOC2 compliance across the entire stack.
- Write Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi). Review it. Ship it.
- Build the observability and incident response pipeline - metrics logs traces alerting.
- Set technical infrastructure standards for the engineering team.
- Own production incidents from detection to postmortem.

What we wont ask you to do

- Manage people.
- Write status reports.
- Attend meetings about meetings about infrastructure.