Software Engineer, Infrastructure Automation
Simplesense builds, deploys, and sustains the Installation Resilience Platform that enables mission operators to rapidly adapt and respond. The Platform protects critical infrastructure from cyber attack while unlocking previously siloed information to monitor, diagnose, and improve response times to incidents. Our adversaries rapidly adopt the latest technology: we help defense users respond in kind.
Simplesense is a non-traditional defense contractor and prime on the Air Force's Installation Resilience Operations Command and Control (IROC) program, which is now expanding to five additional Air Force, Space Force, and Army installations from the one prototype installation, Tyndall Air Force Base.
Our team combines over 100 years of direct mission experience solving hard problems with 50 years technical expertise deploying DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure, giving us a deep appreciation for our customers’ mission and end users’ priorities. We build for scale, architecting and prioritizing technical work for long term sustainability.
Simplesense Engineering drives innovation by developing and integrating advanced technologies to deliver real-time solutions that enhance security, operational efficiency, and data fusion into mission enabling common operating pictures. We design and implement secure infrastructure systems, including operational technology (OT) gateways, cloud-based analytics, and automated monitoring, to streamline data flow and enable actionable insights. By focusing on resilience, scalability, and continuous improvement, our engineering team creates robust platforms that empower decision-making and mission success. Collaboration across public and private systems ensures our solutions bridge critical gaps, optimize resource use, and meet the demands of our customers.
Simplesense is looking for two Software Engineers to join our remote, US-based team.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates using AWS CloudFormation and Ansible.
- Deployment automation of containers and container orchestration technologies using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Create and maintain unit and integration tests for IaC
- Automate provisioning, configuration, and maintenance of cloud and on-premises infrastructure and across hypervisor environments.
- Optimize infrastructure deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments using GitHub Actions.
- Ensure IaC and configuration management code is properly tested, versioned, and documented.
- Design and manage AWS resources (EC2, S3, RDS, VPCs, IAM policies, etc.) using IaC tools.
- Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost, performance, and security.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to AWS infrastructure and services.
- Configure, manage, and optimize virtualized environments using VMware.
- Implement disaster recovery solutions and backup strategies for virtualized systems.
- Work closely with other engineering and operations teams to align infrastructure with business needs.
- Create and maintain documentation for IaC code, system configurations, and operational procedures.
- Implement security best practices for IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure and integrate security scanning and compliance checks into pipelines.
- Set up and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for infrastructure health and performance.
Qualifications
- Proven experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, and version control workflows.
- Proficiency in AWS services,CloudFormation and Ansible for infrastructure provisioning and management.
- Understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools.
- Experience deploying infrastructure with containers and container orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Knowledge of networking concepts, security best practices, and monitoring tools.
- Comfortable performing operations with the Linux terminal.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or similar
- Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain a DoD NIPR account and Common Access Card (CAC)
- Ability to effectively use Simplesense IT Systems (Google Workspace, Slack, Jira, Confluence, Lucid for virtual whiteboards)
- Bonus points for:
- Operational Technology(OT) or Industrial Control Systems (ICS) experience
- Experience generating artifacts for DoD RMF
- Security certifications such as Security+ or Cloud+
- Powershell and Windows automation experience
Competitive benefits package including equity
- Medical, Life, Short-Term Disability, and AD&D insurance
- Medical travel coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401K matching
- Equity
- 3 to 8 years experience - $105,000-$130,000
- 8 or more years experience - $140,000-$170,000