Director of Infrastructure

Role Overview

• Own AllSpice's infrastructure, security, and compliance programs end-to-end.
• Own AllSpice's security posture: policies, incident response, disaster recovery, and ongoing risk assessment.
• Drive SOC 2 compliance, penetration testing, and audit processes; evaluate additional security certifications as needed.
• Make architectural decisions on infrastructure direction, including cloud strategy, cost optimization, high availability, and scaling.
• Work with legal counsel on security and data-protection matters, including DPAs, breach notification obligations, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with customer success and sales to support enterprise deployments, IT security reviews, and SSO/OIDC integrations.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer InfoSec questionnaires and procurement processes.
• Support self-hosted and GovCloud deployments for customers with ITAR, EAR, or CUI requirements.
• Hire, mentor, and manage infrastructure engineers as the team grows.
• Set team goals, define processes, and establish on-call rotations.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and lead incident response when needed.
• Create growth paths for ICs and foster a culture of operational excellence.
• Architect and maintain production AWS environments using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code.
• Automate deployments, backups, and disaster recovery across cloud and self-hosted configurations.
• Monitor and improve performance, availability, and cost efficiency of production systems.
• Work closely with application developers to deploy infrastructure solutions to product problems.

Requirements

• 10+ years of cloud infrastructure and/or security engineering experience
• 2+ years of people management experience (hiring, mentoring, performance management)
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS services (IAM, GuardDuty, VPC, Lambda, etc.), Linux administration, and Docker
• Demonstrated ownership of security policy, compliance programs (SOC 2, ISO 27001), and incident response
• Experience coordinating with legal counsel, customer-facing teams, and executive leadership on security and compliance matters
• Strong project management skills with ability to lead cross-functional initiatives from engineers to customers
• Comfort with ambiguity and a high degree of autonomy
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technology-related field
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card holder)
• (preference, not required) Availability to work out of our flex offices in San Francisco or Boston 1–2 days per week

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Docker
• Linux
• Terraform

Benefits

• Opportunity to make a large impact at an executive level
• Supportive and smart colleagues
• Flexible work
• Competitive salary and equity
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Generous PTO
• Home office stipend
• Relocation package