Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Blue Bear Capital; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Lastwall, a cybersecurity firm in the United States, is hiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer. You will design and operate secure infrastructures for identity-centric platforms essential for government and defense sectors.

Ideal candidates will have 7+ years of experience in infrastructure and cloud environments, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Lastwall offers a competitive compensation package and a people-first culture where your contributions will be impactful.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional infrastructure, DevOps, or systems engineering experience.
• Strong experience operating distributed systems in production environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and operation of secure infrastructure supporting Lastwall’s identity platform.
• Build and manage cloud-based systems for enterprise and government customers.
• Participate in production support and incident response.

Skills

Professional infrastructure experience

Cloud platforms expertise

Infrastructure as code

Monitoring and incident response

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

The Opportunity

Lastwall is a Canadian cybersecurity company focused on identity and mission-critical operations across defense, government, and critical infrastructure.

Trusted by the U.S. Department of Defense and the Government of Canada, Lastwall has spent nearly a decade securing sensitive government environments. With FedRAMP Moderate Authorization, proven traction in the U.S. federal market, and growing demand for sovereign cybersecurity capability, we are entering a defining growth phase across Canada and the United States.

We are hiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to help design, operate, and scale the infrastructure that supports Lastwall’s secure identity platform. This is a senior technical leadership role for someone who can own production systems, improve reliability and security, and help mature the infrastructure practices behind mission-critical software.

You will work across cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, observability, reliability, security, and compliance‑driven operations. The right candidate will be comfortable operating in high‑trust environments where uptime, auditability, resilience, and secure execution matter.

You will join a small, high‑impact engineering team where technical judgment, ownership, and practical leadership are essential. You will help strengthen the systems, practices, and infrastructure foundations that allow Lastwall to scale with demanding government, defense, and critical infrastructure customers.

Headquartered in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and with offices in Vancouver and Honolulu, Lastwall is positioned to help strengthen North American cyber resilience.

The Role

Infrastructure Leadership

• Lead the design, implementation, and operation of secure, reliable infrastructure that supports Lastwall’s identity platform. Help define infrastructure standards, operating practices, and technical direction as the company scales.

Cloud & Platform Operations

• Build, manage, and improve cloud‑based systems across development, staging, and production environments. Support infrastructure that is scalable, observable, secure, and resilient for enterprise and government customers.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Develop and maintain automation for provisioning, deployment, configuration, and environment management. Use infrastructure‑as‑code practices to improve repeatability, reduce manual effort, and support secure change management.

Reliability, Observability & Performance

• Improve system reliability through monitoring, alerting, logging, metrics, and incident response practices. Help define and track service health, availability, performance, and operational readiness.

Security & Compliance‑Driven Infrastructure

• Apply secure infrastructure practices across cloud environments, access controls, secrets management, networking, deployment pipelines, and production operations. Support compliance‑driven requirements for regulated and high‑trust customers.

CI/CD & Developer Enablement

• Partner with software developers to improve build, test, deployment, and release workflows. Help maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines that support secure and efficient delivery of Lastwall’s products.

Incident Response & Operational Ownership

• Participate in production support, troubleshooting, incident response, and Learning From Incidents. Bring structure to operational issues and help improve systems so recurring problems are addressed at the source.

Technical Mentorship

• Provide technical mentorship to engineers working with infrastructure, deployment, and production systems. Help raise the team’s infrastructure maturity through documentation, review, guidance, and practical standards.

What You Bring

• 7+ years of professional infrastructure, DevOps, platform, SRE, or systems engineering experience, ideally in SaaS, cybersecurity, identity, government technology, or other complex software environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong experience operating distributed systems in production cloud infrastructure, including secure, reliable, and scalable systems.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, environment management, and repeatable deployment practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, build systems, deployment automation, and developer enablement.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar.
• Experience with EC2, Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, security controls, and production operations.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and incident response.
• Familiarity with secure infrastructure practices, including access control, secrets management, segmentation, vulnerability management, and least‑privilege design.
• Ability to work independently and lead technical initiatives end‑to‑end, from design through implementation, documentation, and operational handoff.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across engineering, security, product, and operations.
• Comfort in a small but growing company, where ownership, adaptability, and practical execution matter.

Nice to Have

• Strong AWS experience, ideally including AWS GovCloud or similarly regulated cloud environments.
• Experience working in FedRAMP, government, defense, critical infrastructure, or other regulated environments.
• Experience with containerized environments, such as Docker and orchestration platforms.
• Experience supporting Rust, PostgreSQL, and modern web application infrastructure.
• Experience with compliance frameworks, audit evidence collection, or secure change‑management processes.
• Experience with high‑availability architecture, disaster recovery, backup strategy, and resilience planning.
• Familiarity with authentication, identity, PKI, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, or Zero Trust architectures.
• Experience mentoring engineers or helping lead an infrastructure, DevOps, platform, or SRE function.

Why Lastwall?

Lastwall offers a competitive compensation package aligned with the scope and impact of the role. Final compensation will reflect experience, location, and fit with the mandate.

This is an opportunity to join after the product, customers, and proof points are real—but before the next stage of scale is fully built. Lastwall has a proven platform, demanding customers, meaningful accreditations, strong market timing, and new strategic perspective from investors and board leadership.

At Lastwall, your voice is heard, recognized, and valued. We are building a people‑first, security‑always culture where strong contributors can have meaningful impact as the company grows.

For the right candidate, this is a chance to help build secure, resilient infrastructure at the intersection of identity, sovereignty, resilience and national security.

About Lastwall

We are a cybersecurity company with offices in the United States and Canada, specializing in the development and delivery of highly secure, identity‑centric, and quantum‑resilient cybersecurity solutions. We aim to build innovative, security‑first technologies designed for compliance‑driven and threat‑intensive environments such as those found in defense, government, and critical infrastructure sectors.

Our solutions are engineered with a security‑first approach, leveraging cutting‑edge advancements in identity and digital defense to outpace threat actors and protect sensitive systems from evolving cyber threats. By focusing on inhibiting the efficacy of adversaries and exponentially bolstering client security, we provide essential tools to safeguard operations in some of the most mission‑critical industries.

If you’re a US or Canadian Citizen who is passionate about working at the forefront of cybersecurity technology in environments that demand unparalleled security and reliability, we’d love to have you join our team!