Senior Infrastructure & Security Engineer — Remote, Equity

Devconnectplatform; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

CivilGrid is seeking a Senior Staff Infrastructure & Security Engineer to own security posture and support a growing cloud platform. You will collaborate across engineering, IT, and leadership, with a hybrid role based in Boston and a focus on secure, scalable infrastructure.

You will lead SOC 2 readiness, threat modeling, IAM and secrets policies, and incident response while improving reliability and observability across the AWS stack.

Qualifications

• SOC 2 readiness, audits, and evidence collection.
• Define and enforce identity, secrets, and production access policies.
• Lead incident response from detection to resolution and post-incident review.
• Experience building secure, scalable AWS infrastructure and security tooling.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering to embed reliability and security in the SDLC and infrastructure.
• Run security program activities including audits, access controls, and threat modeling.
• Harden and monitor Windows Server GIS alongside AWS.
• Contribute to AWS architecture, IAM, networking, and cost optimization.
• Improve reliability practices: SLOs, observability, on-call, runbooks.

Skills

Security engineering

AWS

SOC 2

IAC (Terraform/CDK)

SRE/DevOps

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

CDK

ECS

RDS

CloudWatch

Job description

CivilGrid is seeking a Senior Staff Infrastructure & Security Engineer to own security posture and support a growing cloud platform. You will collaborate across engineering, IT, and leadership, with a hybrid role based in Boston and a focus on secure, scalable infrastructure.

You will lead SOC 2 readiness, threat modeling, IAM and secrets policies, and incident response while improving reliability and observability across the AWS stack.