Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Bayview Fund Management, LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage from day one

Company 401(k) match

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Bayview Fund Management, LLC is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to guide cloud infrastructure strategy and hands-on execution while leading a small elite team. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and cost discipline in a regulated fintech environment.

You will partner with Engineering, Product, Security, and Data to design and deliver scalable, observable infrastructure across cloud platforms, IaC, and automation.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years building, operating, and improving production infrastructure, internal platforms, or DevOps systems.
• 2+ years as a tech lead, staff-level project lead, or hands-on leader guiding projects and mentoring engineers.
• Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including compute, networking, storage, IAM, and managed services.
• Hands-on IaC experience, preferably Terraform or a comparable framework, with reusable modules.
• Experience with CI/CD, deployment automation, release workflows, and modern DevOps practices at platform scale.
• Container experience with Docker and Kubernetes (or ECS).
• Production automation scripting in Python, Go, Bash, or TypeScript.
• Observability, incident response, runbooks, post-incident improvements.
• Security basics: IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, encryption.
• Track record improving developer velocity, cloud cost efficiency, reliability.
• Excellent communication and judgment in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, build, and operation of cloud infrastructure across major platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Establish reusable infrastructure patterns and technical standards for provisioning and operation.
• Own high-impact infrastructure initiatives from strategy through rollout and iteration.
• Lead and contribute to infrastructure as code using Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Automate repeatable operational workflows, provisioning, configuration, and deployments.
• Improve infrastructure quality via modular design, documentation, testing, and reviews.
• Collaborate to improve CI/CD pipelines, release workflows, and build systems.
• Create self-service tools and paved-path templates for developers.
• Set pragmatic guardrails balancing speed and control for production readiness.
• Lead production operations including deployments, incident response, and post-incident follow-up.
• Define observability across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and SRE reviews.
• Drive reliability and operational maturity, addressing risks proactively.
• Coach teams to build operational judgment and resilience.
• Coordinate delivery across engineers and partner teams to remove blockers.

Skills

5-8+ years experience

Leadership

Communication

Ambiguity handling

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

Pulumi

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Job description

Overview

The Lead Infrastructure Engineer on the Mission Control team plays a critical role in setting technical direction and building, operating, and evolving the cloud infrastructure that supports reliable, secure, and scalable product delivery. This is a hands‑on leadership role responsible for turning platform needs, application requirements, and operational constraints into automated infrastructure, developer workflows, and team execution plans.

Working across cloud infrastructure, DevOps, production operations, and engineering leadership, this role partners closely with Engineering, Product, Security, Data, and domain Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to ensure teams can ship quickly without compromising reliability, security, or compliance.

This role leads the development and evolution of core systems, spanning cloud environments, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerized workloads, observability, secrets management, networking, data infrastructure, and deployment automation within a regulated, high‑stakes environment. Success requires strong systems thinking, pragmatic engineering judgment, and the ability to guide a small, elite team through ambiguity.

The Lead Infrastructure Engineer is expected to operate in an AI‑native engineering environment, using modern coding agents, automation tools, and rapid prototyping workflows to improve delivery speed and infrastructure quality. In parallel, this individual will help create the foundation for AI‑enabled product capabilities by ensuring the underlying systems are dependable, observable, secure, cost‑aware, and easy to use.

This is a fully remote position that offers a competitive salary range of $220,000 to $260,000 USD, plus an annual bonus. You'll also receive our excellent benefits package, which includes medical coverage starting on day one and a company‑matched 401(k). Compensation may vary based on experience, location, and other job‑related factors.

Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

• Lead the design, build, and operation of cloud infrastructure across major platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure with a focus on reliability, scalability, security, and cost discipline
• Establish reusable infrastructure patterns and technical standards that help product teams provision, deploy, and operate services consistently
• Own high-impact infrastructure initiatives from strategy and design through hands‑on implementation, production rollout, monitoring, and iteration

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Lead and contribute hands‑on to infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep, CloudFormation, or similar frameworks
• Automate repeatable operational workflows, environment provisioning, configuration management, deployment tasks, and team operating routines
• Raise infrastructure quality through clear modules, versioning, documentation, testing, code review, and pragmatic standards

DevOps & Developer Experience

• Partner with Engineering teams and technical leaders to improve CI/CD pipelines, release workflows, build systems, and deployment safety
• Reduce friction for developers by guiding the creation of self‑service tools, templates, runbooks, and paved‑path workflows
• Set pragmatic guardrails that balance speed and control so teams can move quickly while maintaining strong production and change‑management practices

Reliability, Observability & Production Operations

• Lead production operations confidently, including deployments, incident response, troubleshooting, escalation management, and post‑incident follow‑up
• Define and improve observability across logs, metrics, traces, alerts, dashboards, service health indicators, and operational reviews
• Drive architecture and operational decisions that improve uptime, performance, resilience, maintainability, and team effectiveness
• Anticipate and address reliability risks before they become customer‑impacting issues, and coach others to build the same operational judgment

Security, Compliance & Cost Discipline

• Establish secure infrastructure patterns, access controls, secrets management, and least‑privilege practices across services and environments
• Support compliance‑aware engineering practices appropriate for a regulated fintech environment and help teams apply them pragmatically
• Monitor infrastructure utilization and cost, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency without reducing reliability or delivery velocity

Leadership, Mentorship & Craft

• Mentor and manage a lean, elite team of infrastructure engineers through clear goals, technical coaching, feedback, and high standards
• Translate ambiguous business, product, and operational needs into clear technical plans, milestones, sequencing, risks, and execution paths for the team
• Set a culture of ownership, curiosity, pragmatism, operational excellence, and engineering craft while remaining deeply hands‑on
• Coordinate delivery across engineers and partner teams, helping remove blockers, manage dependencies, clarify ownership, and keep work moving with urgency and discipline

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years building, operating, and improving production infrastructure, internal platforms, or DevOps systems
• 2+ years as a tech lead, staff‑level project lead, TLM, or hands‑on leader guiding projects and mentoring engineers
• Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including compute, networking, storage, IAM, and managed services
• Strong hands‑on infrastructure as code experience, preferably Terraform or a comparable framework, with reusable module design
• Experience with CI/CD, deployment automation, release workflows, and modern DevOps practices at platform scale
• Comfort working with containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or similar platforms
• Ability to write scripts or production‑quality automation in Python, Go, Rust, Bash, TypeScript, or a similar language
• Experience leading production operations with observability, alerting, incident response, runbooks, and post‑incident improvement
• Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals, including IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, encryption, and secure configuration practices
• Track record improving developer velocity, cloud cost efficiency, reliability, deployment safety, or operational maturity
• Excellent communication, prioritization, and judgment in ambiguity, with the ability to align technical and non‑technical stakeholders

Preferred Experience

• Experience operating as aTechnical Lead orTech Lead Manager responsible for both technicalimplementation, technicaldirection,and people development
• Experience building infrastructure, internal platforms, or developer tools for fast‑moving product engineering teams
• Experience in fintech, mortgage, lending, payments, insurance, or other regulated domains
• Experience supporting AI and data infrastructure, including secure access to model platforms, data pipelines, vector databases, or GPU‑enabled workloads

A note to candidates

You do not need prior fintech or finance experience to succeed in this role. If you are a hands‑on infrastructure engineering leader with sound judgment, a security and reliability mindset, and excitement for mentoring a small team while learning a complex domain, we would love to hear from you.

Bayview is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All aspects of consideration for employment and employment with the Company are governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.

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