Director of Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

Help define the future of hardware development by building a collaboration platform for circuit designs, enabling the next generation of smart vehicles, IoT devices, rockets, medical devices, robotics, and much more. At AllSpice, we're building the agile development environment for hardware designers, including a Git-friendly translation layer and automated CI/CD framework for native circuit designs, think GitHub/GitLab + Copilot for electronics. As Director of Infrastructure, you will own AllSpice's infrastructure, security, and compliance programs end-to-end while building and leading a small, high-impact team. This is a hands-on leadership role: roughly 60% management and strategic work, 40% individual contribution, reporting to the CTO.

🏢 About AllSpice

AllSpice is building the agile development environment for hardware designers, including a Git-friendly translation layer and automated CI/CD framework for native circuit designs, think GitHub/GitLab + Copilot for electronics.

🎯 The Role

This is a high-impact role that comes with significant autonomy and requires a self-driven, strategic, and collaborative builder. You will own our infrastructure, security, and compliance programs end-to-end.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Hands-on infrastructure and scaling: Architect, build, and operate our production AWS environments using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code — you'll ship your own changes
• Make the architectural calls on cloud strategy, high availability, scaling, and cost optimization as our workloads and customer base grow
• Automate deployments, backups, and disaster recovery across AllSpice Cloud, single-tenant, and self-hosted configurations
• Monitor and improve the performance, availability, and cost efficiency of production systems across all hosting models
• Work closely with application developers to deploy infrastructure solutions to product problems
• Customer-facing engineering: Lead enterprise deployments end-to-end across our three hosting models — AllSpice Cloud, single-tenant instances, and self-hosted — including architecture reviews, SSO/OIDC integrations, and security sign-off
• Own the process for spinning up application instances for customer evaluations — streamline it now, automate it over time
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer InfoSec questionnaires, IT security reviews, and procurement processes
• Support self-hosted and GovCloud deployments for customers with ITAR, EAR, or CUI requirements
• Partner with customer success and sales to turn infrastructure into a reason enterprises buy
• Security and compliance ownership: Own AllSpice's security posture: policies, incident response, disaster recovery, and ongoing risk assessment
• Maintain SOC 2 compliance, penetration testing, and audit processes; evaluate additional certifications as we grow
• Work with legal counsel on security and data-protection matters, including DPAs, breach notification obligations, and regulatory requirements
• People management and team building: Hire, mentor, and manage infrastructure engineers as the team grows
• Set team goals, define processes, and establish on-call rotations — and take your own turn in the rotation, leading incident response when needed
• Create growth paths for ICs and foster a culture of operational excellence

📌 Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of cloud infrastructure and/or security engineering experience, with recent hands-on production work — you've written Terraform and debugged a live incident in the past year, not the past decade
• Experience owning infrastructure at a startup or on a small team, where you built systems yourself rather than directing a platform org
• Fluency in the operational differences between multi-tenant SaaS, single-tenant, and self-hosted deployments — and how each changes the approach to support, monitoring, and implementation
• 2+ years of people management experience (hiring, mentoring, performance management)
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS services (IAM, GuardDuty, VPC, Lambda, etc.), Linux administration, and Docker
• Demonstrated ownership of security policy, compliance programs (SOC 2, ISO 27001), and incident response
• Confidence in front of customers — you can run an InfoSec review, present to a CISO, and guide an enterprise onboarding
• Strong project management skills with ability to lead cross-functional initiatives from engineers to customers
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card holder)

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with the Crysknife
• Comfort with ambiguity and a high degree of autonomy

🎁 Benefits

Competitive

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Must be a U.S. Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card holder)