Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Your Impact

We're seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain the AWS-based backbone of our drone detection and analytics platform. You'll enable our analysts and agents to deliver actionable insights at scale, ensuring our data pipelines, alerting systems, and compute environments are secure, reliable, and efficient. You'll work closely with the Decisions and Insights team to operationalize data workflows and automate alerting, applying best practices in DevOps and cloud-native architecture. This is a hands‑on engineering role focused on systems that directly support Dedrone's global airspace security mission.

What You'll Do

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure (S3, EC2, Lambda, Fargate, SNS, CloudWatch, IAM, Code Pipelines etc).
• Build and maintain data ingestion and processing pipelines, ensuring reliability and scalability.
• Set up and monitor notification and alerting systems for data processing and model operations.
• Manage Dockerized workloads across Fargate and EC2 for compute‑heavy analytics jobs.
• Support CI/CD pipelines for model deployment and internal tools.
• Optimize cost, performance, and security posture across AWS accounts and services.
• Collaborate with DA/DE/DS to operationalize workflows in a cloud‑native, automated fashion.

What You Bring

• 4+ years of experience managing AWS infrastructure in production environments.
• Experience with CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation for infrastructure as code is a must.
• Strong experience with Lambda, Fargate, S3, SNS/SQS, EC2, and CloudWatch.
• Hands‑on experience with Docker and CI/CD tools.
• Solid understanding of Python‑based data workflows and microservice design patterns.
• Excellent problem‑solving and communication skills, with a focus on reliability and automation.

Work Location

This role is based out of our Sterling, VA Office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in‑person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in‑office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• Learning & Development programs
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Base Pay Range: $120,750 - $193,200 USD