DriveWealth is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer

About Us DriveWealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices. Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. DriveWealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options. There’s never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. Join us and help build the future of global investing! About the Role As a seasoned Infrastructure Engineer, you will design, manage, and scale our high-performance computing environments. This role bridges the gap between traditional system administration and modern platform engineering, focusing on reliability, automation, and the stringent security requirements of the financial services industry. You will be responsible for a hybrid ecosystem that spans AWS cloud and on-premise systems, ensuring 99.99% uptime for mission-critical services and transactions. What You’ll Do - Linux Systems Engineering: Design and manage high-performance Linux environments including Ubuntu, RHEL, or Amazon Linux. Focus on tuning for low- latency financial applications and system-level hardening - Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Architect and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, treating infrastructure as a software project with version control and peer reviews - Hybrid Networking: Manage connectivity between cloud environments and on-premise systems, focusing on secure VPC design, VPNs, and routing - On-Premise Management: Manage physical switches, routers, and firewalls, with an understanding of multicast, VLANs, and interface aggregation - CI/CD & Release Engineering: Build and optimize deployment pipelines to ensure system updates, patches, and application code are deployed safely and frequently - Observability & Reliability: Implement comprehensive monitoring (using Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana) to track system SLIs/SLOs and implement automated alerting or self-healing scripts - Container Platform Management: Support and scale Docker / Podman environments, focusing on pod networking and container runtimes - Infrastructure Security: Implement "shift-left" security, including OS-level hardening (SELinux, AppArmor), automated vulnerability scanning, and IAM policy refinement What You’ll Need - Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or a related field - Systems Expertise: 3+ years of experience in Linux Administration or Infrastructure Engineering - System Internals: Deep knowledge of system performance profiling (e.g., top, iostat, strace) and comfort with Linux system fundamentals (i.e. Systemd, LVM, and Cron) - Automation Proficiency: Strong proficiency in Ansible and Terraform for infrastructure and system automation. Bash and/or Python experience for custom tooling as required - Cloud & Networking Fundamentals: Hands-on experience with AWS Networking fundamentals (VPCs, Routing Tables, and Nat Gateways). Solid understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, and routing protocols like BGP or OSPF - Container Runtime: Experience with container runtimes in a Production environment (Docker / Podman, Docker Compose). Kubernetes experience is a plus - Problem Solving: Ability to perform root-cause analysis on complex distributed systems Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor an employment Visa at this time. Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Required) - Compliance Knowledge: Experience working within regulated environments such as SOC2, or FINRA - High-Availability Architecture: Experience building multi-region, failover-capable architectures for mission-critical financial transactions - SDLC Architecture: Architecting deployment pipelines using GitHub actions, familiarity with AWS Secrets Manager for managing sensitive secrets, and other DevOps toolchain services - Fintech Protocols: Basic understanding of financial messaging or low-latency requirements, such as FIX protocol - Security & Application Tuning: Experience with WAF, DDoS mitigation strategies, and tuning edge application services such as HAProxy - Certifications: CompTIA Linux+, RHCSA/RHCE, or AWS SysOps Administrator