Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

Very Good Security; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Health benefits

401k with matching

Stock options

Professional learning reimbursement

Job summary

Very Good Security is looking for an experienced Infrastructure/SRE professional to architect and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure. The role includes managing production systems, leading incident responses, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The ideal candidate should possess strong AWS proficiency, programming skills, and a solid understanding of cloud-native architectures. A flexible remote-first work environment with hybrid options is available for those within 30 miles of our offices.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing production systems in large-scale environments.
• Ability to lead incident management and disaster recovery.
• Solid understanding of networking and security in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain scalable infrastructure for high availability.
• Lead incident response processes for swift resolutions.
• Collaborate with engineers to enhance system reliability.

Skills

AWS proficiency

Infrastructure/SRE experience

Cloud-native architecture understanding

Monitoring tools expertise

Programming in Python, Go, Bash

Communication and collaboration skills

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitOps

Job description

About VGS

VGS is the world's leader in payment tokenization. Large banks, aspiring fintechs, and growing merchants embed our universal token vault into their technology stack to manage the complexities of payment data tokenization across processors and networks, open banking, card issuance, omnichannel loyalty, PCI compliance, payment orchestration, and more. We empower our clients and partners by tokenizing sensitive payment data, limiting compliance scope, and consolidating payments to unlock revenue and business opportunities.

VGS provides processor-agnostic tokenization solutions via secure universal token vaults, iframes, mobile SDKs, tokenization proxies, APIs, and data orchestration tooling to support payment acceptance, card issuance, PII and bank account tokenization, and other payments value-added services. Some of the use cases we enable include multi-processor Network Tokenization, Account Updater, payment orchestration, secure settlement file processing, 3DS, and Risk provider connectivity.

What You Will Be Doing at VGS (Responsibilities)

• Architect and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure: Design and optimize infrastructure for high availability, fault tolerance, and performance across distributed systems.
• Lead incident management and root cause analysis: Own incident response processes, ensure swift resolution of issues, and drive post-incident improvements to prevent recurrences.
• Service monitoring and automation: Build and maintain automated monitoring, alerting, and healing systems that improve system health, reduce manual intervention, and minimize downtime.
• Performance tuning and capacity planning: Identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities, and implement scaling strategies to handle traffic spikes and growing workloads efficiently.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with software engineers, product teams, and DevOps to enhance system reliability and delivery pipelines.
• Improve operational processes: Champion continuous improvement initiatives in deployment, scaling, and performance testing, while advocating for the adoption of SRE best practices across the organization.
• Mentorship and leadership: Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers, contribute to strategic decisions around infrastructure, and ensure best practices are implemented at scale.
• Be proactive and innovative: we rely on your feedback to build a world-class product.

What We Are Looking for From You (Requirements)

• On-call support: Go on call for the services owned and operated by the team.
• Proven experience in Infrastructure/SRE roles, with a track record of managing production systems in complex, large-scale environments.
• Strong proficiency in AWS, including infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture, Linux Systems, microservices, Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK), CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Argo), GitOps, Authentication and Authorization, APIs and API Gateway, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka (MSK), Java, Spring Framework, Python, and AWS services.
• Strong plus if you are a database wiz.
• Expertise in monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry or similar tools to measure system health and performance.
• Programming and scripting experience in languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or other relevant languages used in automating infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and load balancing in cloud-native environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and mentor junior team members.
• Experience with incident management and disaster recovery best practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

What You Get From Us

• Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
• Competitive health benefits
• VGS stock options
• 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting (available only for US employees)
• Life & disability insurance
• Pre-tax flexible spending accounts, dependent and healthcare FSA (available only for US employees)
• Global parental leave program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Home Internet reimbursement
• New hire home office set-up allowance
• Professional learning reimbursement

At VGS, we have a remote-first philosophy because we believe flexibility leads to great work and a healthy work-life balance. That said, if you live within 30 miles of one of our office locations, you’ll be on a hybrid schedule with some in-person time—because we know there’s real value in coming together.

We’re not about being in the office every day—but we are about connection, collaboration, and the energy that comes from a great brainstorm, a team lunch, or celebrating a big win in person.

We consider applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, marital status, physical or mental disability, or other protected classes under all local, state, and federal laws and ordinances (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled).

Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Current Hiring States

Please note we are currently only hiring in the following states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.