Onebrief is hiring a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to lead the technical direction of our platform. You will own the long-term health, scalability, and evolution of our infrastructure, anticipating the needs of mission-critical applications operating across multiple air-gapped environments.
What You'll Do
- Define and execute a one- to two-year technical vision for Onebrief’s infrastructure in partnership with engineering leadership.
- Design and evolve a deployment strategy focused on AWS and on-prem environments, with support for partner-hosted deployments in other cloud platforms as required.
- Build security and compliance directly into the infrastructure lifecycle through automation and policy-driven systems.
- Identify and resolve the most complex technical debt and performance bottlenecks affecting the broader Product and Engineering organizations.
- Design and lead the implementation of the next generation of the Onebrief platform infrastructure.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling infrastructure systems.
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Proven experience leading organization-wide infrastructure initiatives and executing roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
- Deep experience operating in highly regulated, secure, and/or air-gapped environments, including the Department of War or the Intelligence Community.
- Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes, including multi-cluster design, security, and the broader CNCF ecosystem.
- Experience designing enterprise-grade infrastructure-as-code and automation frameworks using tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Proficiency in Python and Bash for building custom tooling and automation.
- Ability to communicate complex technical strategies to engineers and stakeholders and build alignment around long-term architectural decisions.
- Willingness to obtain and maintain eligibility for a Top Secret clearance with SCI.
Technical Stack
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- CNCF ecosystem
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Python
- Bash
Work Mode
This role is open to global candidates.
Onebrief is an equal opportunity employer.





