Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About Epirus

Epirus is a high-growth technology company developing software-defined high-power microwave (HPM) systems with devastating counter-electronics effects on modern drone threats. The Epirus Leonidas HPM family of products, empowered by innovations in AI and microelectronics, is human-safe and cost-effective. Distinguishing itself from lasers, Leonidas excels against drone swarms while also bending the cost curve back in DoD's favor - taking drone defeat costs from millions of dollars per drone to pennies on the dollar.

Job Summary: The Infrastructure Engineer will be working with the software team and focusing on AWS infrastructure as well as build automation tools and pipelines.  A key part of the role is championing and leading infrastructure as code and improving automated build and test.

Responsibilities: 

• Design 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:

• At least 5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeBuild, S3, RDS) 
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure 
• A solid foundation of networking and Linux administration 
• Experience with Docker, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Ansible 
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools 
• Strong bias for action and ownership
• Experience with software testing frameworks such as PyTest, GoogleTest, Jest, React Testing Library or Playwright 

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.  

People are the most important part of Epirus – and always come first. We don’t believe in the word impossible and are always asking “why not” as work to usher in a new paradigm of power efficiency. Our fast-growing team is agile, creative, and innovative. We support a culture of constant learning and sense of belonging among our team members and know that mentorship matters. We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace and beyond. To deliver on our mission, we are always looking for problem solvers, changemakers and innovators to join our fast-growing team.