Infra Lead - DDoS-Resilient, Global Scale & Reliability

IPinfo; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

IPinfo is seeking a hands-on Infrastructure Manager to lead our infra team responsible for reliability, scalability, and security at global scale. You will mentor engineers, influence architecture, and directly contribute to incident response during live events.

The role emphasizes a mix of leadership and technical depth, including hands-on debugging, Terraform/Ansible workflows, and collaboration with security to maintain a robust, observable environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure/SRE/platform engineering roles with hands-on scaling experience.
• 5+ years in leading an infrastructure/SRE team while staying technically hands-on.
• Proven experience defending large-scale services against DDoS attacks with live incident response.
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), networking fundamentals, and IaC tooling.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and ability to operate distributed, high-availability systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the infrastructure team while staying involved in architecture, coding and operations.
• Own design and evolution of infrastructure serving high-throughput, low-latency workloads at scale.
• Lead DDoS mitigation strategy and incident response from architecture to live handling.
• Drive capacity planning, cost optimization, and performance tuning across the stack.
• Improve observability, alerting, and on-call practices to reduce MTTD/MTTR.
• Own infrastructure security posture in collaboration with security functions.
• Balance team growth and process maturity with shipping and firefighting when needed.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

Hands-on scaling experience

Team leadership

DDoS defense

Cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Networking fundamentals (BGP, DNS, CDN

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ans

Linux systems

Incident response

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

IPinfo is seeking a hands-on Infrastructure Manager to lead our infra team responsible for reliability, scalability, and security at global scale. You will mentor engineers, influence architecture, and directly contribute to incident response during live events.

The role emphasizes a mix of leadership and technical depth, including hands-on debugging, Terraform/Ansible workflows, and collaboration with security to maintain a robust, observable environment.