Principal Infrastructure Architect & Cloud Scale Leader

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, operate, and scale its cloud platform. You will own complex initiatives spanning architecture, automation, and cost efficiency in a high-traffic AWS/Kubernetes environment.

You’ll work across engineering teams to improve reliability, performance, and resilience, while leading incident response and disaster recovery efforts.

Qualifications

• Own the technical architecture and evolution of core infrastructure.
• Deep expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, and Aurora RDS (MySQL and Postgres).
• Experience writing code and infrastructure-as-code for production systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture and evolution of core infrastructure: identify system limits, prioritize improvements, implement changes.
• Connect business understanding to improvements across the system: learn production workflows and partner across teams.
• Engineer for scale and performance: build capacity models, run load tests, diagnose bottlenecks, validate improvements.
• Design and build AWS infrastructure: implement resilient account, IAM, network, services; handle quotas and multi-AZ/region.
• Build and operate the Kubernetes platform: improve cluster architecture, automation, autoscaling, deployments.
• Scale and optimize Aurora RDS for MySQL and Postgres: tune queries, address bottlenecks, plan capacity, implement migrations.
• Improve reliability through engineering: define SLOs, implement failure isolation, backpressure, safe retries.
• Participate in on-call and drive technical recovery during incidents: triage, mitigations, postmortems.
• Implement and test disaster recovery: backup, restore, failover, recovery objectives; run drills.
• Build infrastructure-as-code and automation: reproducible provisioning, deployments, upgrades, recovery.
• Build observability: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts; visibility into health and impact.
• Deliver safe infrastructure migrations: phased rollouts, validation, rollback paths.
• Improve cloud cost efficiency through changes: right-size resources, autoscale tuning, cost metrics.
• Build and evaluate AI-assisted operational tooling: bounded permissions, measurable toil reductions.
• Make technical decisions clear and executable: architecture proposals, benchmarks, documentation.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Aurora RDS

IaC

Observability

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, operate, and scale its cloud platform. You will own complex initiatives spanning architecture, automation, and cost efficiency in a high-traffic AWS/Kubernetes environment.

You’ll work across engineering teams to improve reliability, performance, and resilience, while leading incident response and disaster recovery efforts.