Sr Infrastructure & Security Engineer
Waukee, IA - USA
Job Summary
This position is in-office located in Waukee Iowa.
Vizonian Life
VizyPay is leading the technology-payment processing space. Our culture is built on trust transparency technology and talent. We are the voice for business owners putting money back in their pockets and eliminating up to 100% of their processing fees.
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The Gig
The Sr. Infrastructure & Security Engineer owns the cloud infrastructure enterprise network security posture operational reliability and end-user support functions that keep VizyPay connected protected and audit-ready. Reporting directly to the CIO the role unifies cloud and platform engineering networking site reliability engineering security engineering and IT support into a single senior individual-contributor mandate spanning the infrastructure foundation beneath VEXIS VizyPays proprietary CRM platform and the organizations business systems. The role is a core contributor to the annual PCI DSS assessment and the enterprise BCP/DR programs. Operating cloud-first in a security- and compliance-driven payments environment it is accountable for availability and resilience (RTO/RPO) detection and response readiness measurable risk reduction infrastructure cost and audit-ready controls in production.
Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
- Architect build and operate secure scalable cloud infrastructure across Microsoft Azure AWS and DigitalOcean compute virtual networking storage and managed data services supporting VEXIS and enterprise systems.
- Expand infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform) and GitOps automation as the default provisioning path including policy-as-code and IaC security scanning; build CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions Azure DevOps) with automated testing and controlled promotion; eliminate manual unrepeatable changes.
- Manage infrastructure cost and capacity: rightsizing reserved-capacity strategy usage monitoring and performance optimization with spend reported against approved budget and capacity kept ahead of business growth.
- Provide technical leadership across InfraSec and in partnership with Software Engineering: engineering standards design and architecture reviews and mentorship as a hands-on individual contributor.
Networking
- Administer and support the enterprise network firewalls SD-WAN switches wireless access points and overall network infrastructure including design configuration monitoring and lifecycle management.
- Own network segmentation design and enforcement TLS 1.2 everywhere and secure connectivity site-to-site and remote-access VPN DNS load balancing and WAF/CDN (e.g. Cloudflare) aligned with least privilege.
- Maintain network documentation configuration baselines and audit-ready change records; manage network capacity performance and availability.
Security Engineering & Identity
- Own and manage key security platforms and services identity and access management (IAM) endpoint security mobile device management (MDM) password management security monitoring and Microsoft 365 security posture including email security controls (e.g. anti-phishing DMARC/DKIM/SPF) including administration policy integration and continuous improvement.
- Own security monitoring and detection engineering across enterprise SIEM EDR and file integrity monitoring (FIM) platforms: log-source onboarding detection content alert tuning and response runbooks.
- Operate the vulnerability management program (coverage risk-based prioritization remediation SLAs) patch management cadence for operating systems and endpoints and asset/configuration inventory; own identity lifecycle management (joiner/mover/leaver) conditional-access policy administration and privileged access management (PAM); enforce vault-based secrets management and MFA-inclusive authentication; lead threat modeling and security-by-design with Software Engineering and Product.
Reliability Operations & End-User Support
- Define and operate SLOs error budgets and availability/performance monitoring; own the observability stack end to end metrics structured logging distributed tracing and alert design (e.g. Prometheus/Grafana CloudWatch Azure Monitor) with centralized log management and retention aligned with compliance requirements; drive toil reduction through automation-first operations.
- Own incident response across infrastructure and security: detection escalation mitigation and blameless postmortems with tracked corrective actions; participate in the on-call rotation; operate all production changes under formal change management.
- Serve as the Tier 2/3 escalation point for end-user support in partnership with the InfraSec Help Desk: endpoint engineering and lifecycle management Microsoft 365 administration and troubleshooting across devices and business systems and automation of support workflows with measured service quality.
Governance Compliance & Resilience
- Participate in the annual PCI DSS assessment and audit process evidence collection remediation activities control validation and collaboration with internal stakeholders and external assessors coordinate external penetration testing and remediation tracking and maintain audit-ready evidence year-round: configuration standards access reviews segmentation validation monitoring coverage and recovery-test results.
- Design and validate resilience RTO/RPO alignment backup and recovery failover architecture and graceful degradation and plan and execute disaster-recovery exercises consistent with enterprise BCP/DR standards.
- Contribute to security policy standards risk assessments and employee security-awareness enablement in partnership with the CIO; align all controls with PCI DSS and financial-industry obligations.
Ready to Level Up
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Cybersecurity or a related field or equivalent required.
- Required 7 years of professional experience across infrastructure cloud network security or site reliability engineering including 4 years operating production infrastructure and security controls at scale with accountability for availability cost risk and outcomes.
- Preferred cloud and automation certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) Azure Administrator (AZ-104) CKA or HashiCorp Terraform Associate.
- Preferred security and identity certifications: ISC2 CISSP or CCSP CSA CCSK Microsoft AZ-500 SC-300 SC-100 or MD-102 AWS Security Specialty CKS or CompTIA Security/CySA.
- Preferred networking incident-response and compliance certifications: Microsoft AZ-700 or SC-200 AWS Advanced Networking Specialty CompTIA Network GIAC (e.g. GSEC GCIH GCIA GMON) ISACA CISA or CRISC PCI Professional (PCIP) or Cloudflare platform accreditations where applicable.
- Demonstrated ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy owning infrastructure and security strategy priorities and execution while reporting directly to executive leadership.
- Experience in security- or compliance-constrained environments (e.g. PCI DSS or financial services regulation) including direct participation in compliance assessments and audit evidence collection delivering under formal SDLC and change management.
- Demonstrated incident-response ownership across infrastructure and security domains: on-call participation incident command or mitigation leadership and postmortem-driven improvement.
- Proven ability to translate infrastructure security and reliability tradeoffs into clear recommendations for technical and executive stakeholders.
- Expertise in Cloud platforms: production engineering on Microsoft Azure AWS or DigitalOcean compute virtual networking IAM storage and managed database services.
- Familiar with infrastructure automation: Terraform (or equivalent) GitOps workflows configuration management and CI/CD engineering (e.g. GitHub Actions Azure DevOps) with security scanning and progressive delivery; Python PowerShell and/or Bash operational tooling with strong Git fluency.
- Expertise in containers orchestration and serverless: Docker and Kubernetes (e.g. AKS EKS DigitalOcean Kubernetes) or managed container services; serverless/edge compute (e.g. AWS Lambda Cloudflare Workers).
- Understanding of operating systems and directory services: Windows Server and Linux administration Active Directory/Microsoft Entra hybrid identity and Microsoft 365 administration.
- Skilled in network infrastructure: enterprise firewalls SD-WAN switching and wireless design administration and troubleshooting with strong routing/switching fundamentals (VLANs routing protocols QoS) and VPN.
- Knowledge in network and cloud security: segmentation design firewall policy management DNS TLS certificate management WAF/CDN (e.g. Cloudflare) encryption at rest and in transit and cloud security posture management (CSPM).
- Experience with security monitoring detection and vulnerability management: enterprise SIEM/log analytics EDR and FIM platforms detection content development alert tuning response integration plus enterprise scanning risk-based prioritization and remediation workflow design.
- Knowledge with identity endpoint and end-user platforms: least-privilege RBAC MFA-inclusive authentication identity lifecycle and privileged access management (PAM) directory and identity platforms (e.g. Microsoft Entra ID AWS IAM) endpoint security MDM password management platforms and vault-based secrets management.
- Demonstrate ability in reliability engineering: SLO/error-budget practice observability tooling database backup/recovery replication and point-in-time restore (e.g. PostgreSQL SQL Server MySQL).
- Track record of technical leadership: mentoring architecture or design review or engineering standards ownership.
Take Your Career To The Next Level!
- Experience in payments fintech banking or another regulated financial domain; hands-on PCI DSS assessment participation across multiple annual cycles.
- SRE practice depth (SLO/error-budget programs chaos or resilience testing); FinOps/cloud cost-management practices; multi-account/landing-zone architecture.
- Zero-trust or SASE architecture; detection engineering depth (e.g. MITRE ATT&CK); securing or supporting AI/ML workloads (OWASP LLM Top 10) aligned with VizyPays enterprise AI roadmap.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Founded by small business owners to look out for small business owners. VizyPay makes accepting credit cards easy and affordable.