Infra Foundations Engineering Manager — Cloud Reliability (Remote)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Competitive benefits

Equity rewards

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Infra Foundations team, owning roadmaps, reliability, and growth of engineers. You will guide AWS provisioning, VPC networking, and IAM governance while expanding automation across IaC rails to enable rapid, safe provisioning and teardown of complex environments.

You will mentor engineers, align priorities with security and platform goals, and drive operational excellence through metrics, incident response, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, with 2+ years of engineering management experience.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, or adjacent domains.
• Strong technical background in cloud-native and infrastructure systems (AWS preferred).
• Experience owning or leading Infrastructure-as-Code practices (Terraform, Spacelift, or equivalent) and GitOps workflows.
• Experience building and operating infrastructure automation that other teams adopt and depend on.
• Track record of operating services with a high reliability bar (monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems, continuous hardening).
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the vision and multi-quarter roadmap, tying foundational investments to critical, business-impacting outcomes while protecting space for tech-debt reduction and reliability work.
• Lead and mentor a team of infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence, and owning hiring, performance, and career growth.
• Partner with engineering leadership and stakeholders to align Infra Foundations priorities with broader infrastructure, platform, and security goals.
• Own the reliability and safety of the foundational layer: AWS account provisioning and bootstrapping, core networking (VPCs and interconnectivity), and human IAM access.
• Drive the team's automation charter, delivering frameworks that let other infra teams provision, update, and tear down complex stacks and whole environments safely on the existing IaC rails (GitHub, Spacelift).
• Steward critical operational programs including AWS quota management and notifications, AMI patch management, and Ansible-based configuration management.
• Establish and hold the operational bar: SLAs for IAM requests, quota alerting thresholds, incident response for networking changes, and automated validation of provisioning and teardown.
• Partner with Security to enforce least-privilege IAM and ensure recommended permissions are adopted across teams.
• Drive smooth adoption of Infra Foundations frameworks and best practices through self-service tooling, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud-native infra

AWS

Terraform

Spacelift

GitOps

Python/Go/Kotlin

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Spacelift

GitHub

Ansible

AWS

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Infra Foundations team, owning roadmaps, reliability, and growth of engineers. You will guide AWS provisioning, VPC networking, and IAM governance while expanding automation across IaC rails to enable rapid, safe provisioning and teardown of complex environments.

You will mentor engineers, align priorities with security and platform goals, and drive operational excellence through metrics, incident response, and