Civilgrid

Senior/Staff Security & Infrastructure Engineer

Boston, Remote. Posted 10 days ago

The role

You will own the security posture and support cloud platform reliability. You will work on the Systems team across DevOps, SRE, and security to scale the platform for large utilities and engineering firms.

What you will do

  • Partner with engineering to embed reliability and security into the SDLC and infrastructure decisions
  • Run the security program including SOC 2 readiness, audits, vendor reviews, access controls, endpoint security, and threat modeling
  • Define and enforce policies for identity, secrets, data handling, and production access
  • Lead incident response for security and reliability events
  • Harden and monitor GIS servers and the AWS platform
  • Build and maintain the Trust Center and lead security reviews with customers
  • Contribute to the AWS environment including VPC architecture, ECS, RDS, secrets management, IAM, networking, and cost optimization
  • Contribute to improving reliability practices like SLOs, observability, alerting, on-call rotation, runbooks, and post-incident reviews

Required qualifications

  • At least 5-8 years of experience across product security, platform security, or security engineering
  • Hands-on experience with DevOps or SRE of production AWS infrastructure
  • Experience running or supporting a SOC 2 program
  • Deep working knowledge of AWS (VPC, ECS, RDS, IAM, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch)
  • Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK, or equivalent)
  • Experience running vulnerability management
  • Track record of improving reliability in production
  • Autonomous and able to move fast
  • Strong verbal and written communication

Nice to have

  • Experience supporting B2B products sold into regulated industries (utilities, energy, public sector)

Benefits

  • Meaningful early-stage equity
  • Company-funded medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Medical plans at no cost to the employee
  • FSA (health and dependent care)
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 401(k) plan
  • Flexible, remote-friendly work environment

About the company

CivilGrid is a venture-backed Series A startup providing a civil design platform for infrastructure renewal. The platform consolidates utility records and data for utilities, civil engineers, and municipalities.