Senior Engineer - Federal Infrastructure

[ABOUT ISTARI DIGITAL]
Istari is a digital engineering software company enabling our customers to turn the physical world into the digital to accomplish their specific mission or business objectives.

Istari was founded with the vision of making open, scalable digital engineering ecosystems a reality – where new technologies and systems are created digitally, free from the real-world constraints of costs and schedules. We are creating the world’s best engineering model sharing platform, allowing our customers to simply and securely integrate their models across different engineering disciplines, organizations, and security levels.

At Istari, we are passionate about our mission of creating the world's first open and scalable industrial metaverse. Whether our customers are designing prototypes, performing virtual testing, or training AI and autonomy for complex systems, we know that going digital will save them time, resources, and reduce their environmental impact.

While we are a distributed team with most team-members working remotely, we place an emphasis on staying connected and collaborative, prioritizing in-person opportunities to build trust as a team. At Istari, we still believe that trust is best built in-person. To do this, we have an engineering headquarters in Cambridge, MA for focused technical development and several times per year we gather for an off-site that allows us to develop our professional skills and our team relationships.

[VALUES]
At Istari, we live by our values, which include:

- Focus is rewarded. Finish is remembered.
- Facts are friendly. Even when they are not fun.
- Fellowship is fundamental. Make others successful.

Equal Opportunity
Istari is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We are seeking a Federal Infrastructure Engineer to join our Engineering team. This role is critical for supporting platform installations and integrating cloud and on-premise networks, ensuring our platform operates seamlessly across diverse environments. Deep expertise in federal network infrastructure is required, specifically to ensure compliance with Department of Defense Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) requirements.

Key Responsibilities:
• Responsibilities include collaborating with the platform team on environment preparation for platform integration and expansion, which involves conducting and troubleshooting Istari installations. Required technical skills include experience with VPCs, AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, AWS RDS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and EKS.
• Automate installation (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and upgrade processes to reduce time-to-value and improve repeatability across customer deployments.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex infrastructure and deployment issues providing clear and timely communication.
• Develop and maintain documentation, playbooks, and training materials to enable smoother installs across the team and for customers.
• Participate in incident response when issues impact customer environments, driving root cause analysis and long-term fixes.
• Stay up to date on emerging cloud and infrastructure technologies that can improve our customer delivery.
• Apply and validate security configurations using Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and Security Requirements Guides (SRGs) across various technologies (e.g., operating systems, network devices, applications).

Qualifications:
• Must have approved Commercial Personnel Certification in alignment with DoD Cyberspace Workforce Framework (DCWF); CompTIA Network+, Security+, CND, etc., or a qualifying Academic Degree/Education Certificate
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in federal infrastructure engineering.
• A proven record with Kubernetes, preferably in a production environment.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). Familiarity with hybrid or on-prem environments is a plus.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (IaC) Configuration as Code (CaC) and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and virtualization in enterprise contexts.
• Proven experience deploying and managing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills in high-pressure, customer-facing situations.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Must be a U.S. citizen living within the United States.
• Top Secret Security Clearance (preferred)

BENEFITS
We offer highly competitive benefits, including:

Health and Family
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Employee Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Life Insurance
- Flexible Work Hours
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) with federal government holidays

Financial
- Competitive Compensation
- 401k
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Setup Budget

Learning
- Reimbursement for approved trainings and subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)

Note - some benefits are not available to interns or contractors.

Thank you for your interest in Istari. Expect to hear back from us soon with next steps.