Collective

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

San Francisco, Remote. Posted 2 months ago

The role

You will join the Infrastructure team to manage AWS and GCP foundations, CI/CD, IaC, observability, secrets management, and identity. You will build scalable systems, develop disaster recovery plans, and own the CI/CD system.

What you will do

  • Use Infrastructure as Code with Terraform to manage cloud resources on AWS, GCP, and SaaS vendors.
  • Embed security best practices using zero-trust architecture principles.
  • Build scalable, reliable, and cost-effective systems.
  • Develop and test disaster recovery plans.
  • Own the CI/CD system, set standards, and mentor teams.
  • Reduce operational toil through automation and AI tooling.
  • Work with product engineering to translate application needs into infrastructure solutions.
  • Own the observability stack to identify and remediate performance bottlenecks.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation for outages and incident response.
  • Stay current with emerging technologies in Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, and Platform Engineering.

Required qualifications

  • At least 5 years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps, or SRE.
  • Proven track record of operating production cloud environments at scale.
  • Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
  • Proficiency in multi-cloud operations.
  • Experience implementing infrastructure and security policy as code.
  • Strong software development skills.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience mentoring engineers, leading post-incident reviews, or driving cross-team infra initiatives.
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable code for automation and tooling.
  • Familiarity with foundational networking concepts and protocols.
  • Strong hands-on skills with Linux and command-line tools.
  • Comfort using AI tooling as leverage for infra automation, tooling, and debugging.

Nice to have

  • AWS is highly preferred
  • GCP is a plus
  • Python or another high level language
  • Experience building internal tools or services is a plus
  • Built or contributed to AI-assisted DevOps workflows is a bonus

Benefits

  • Fresh Lunch provided on in-office days
  • $150 monthly reimbursement for transit expenses
  • $200 quarterly reimbursement for health and wellness
  • Flexible PTO plus 14 company holidays
  • 100% medical, dental, and vision for employees
  • 75% coverage for dependents
  • 16 weeks fully paid parental leave
  • 401k plan
  • Equity package
  • Quarterly virtual events
  • Annual in-person summit

About the company

Collective is on a mission to redefine the way businesses-of-one work through technology and a team of trusted advisors. They help members achieve financial independence by managing business incorporation, accounting, bookkeeping, and tax services.