Staff FedRAMP DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer

About SandboxAQ

SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the worlds greatest challenges. The companys Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences financial services navigation cybersecurity and other sectors.

We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI chemistry cybersecurity physics mathematics medicine engineering and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent growth capital-backed company in 2022 funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders.

At SandboxAQ weve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity collaboration and impact. By investing deeply in our people were building a thriving global workforce poised to tackle the worlds epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism ownership and transformative impact.

About The Role

The Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ is looking for a DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer to help functionalize AQtive Guard our groundbreaking solution for modern non-human identity and cryptography management already launching globally with major organizations like top-tier financial institutions and government agencies.

Were looking for a DevOps & Infrastructure engineer to help deliver the next generation of cybersecurity systems. A successful candidate will be comfortable designing and maintaining both on-premise and cloud infrastructure including local development environments and full CI/CD pipelines. Knowledge of information security best practices will be considered a plus. The candidate will be working closely with a diverse team consisting of cryptographers mathematicians ML experts and physicists where they will be collaborating together in delivering novel solutions.

What Youll Do

• Work with teams of developers and cryptographers to integrate their research advancements into new products
• Develop and maintain tooling for interacting with the various deployments set up local development environment and maintain a complex code base
• Work across on-premise cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures to deliver fully functional products
• Design scalable and fault-tolerant architecture for cloud deployments
• Ensure high-quality deliverables by maintaining CI/CD pipelines and concise documentation
• Contribute to delivering AQtive Guard for FedRAMP compliance

Who You Are

• US Citizenship and/or security clearance is required due to USG contract requirements
• Strong experience using building and maintaining infrastructure in AWS
• Strong experience managing and orchestrating workloads using Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience defining infrastructure and processes as code through Terraform and managing CI systems
• Strong experience with a few scripting languages
• Expertise building large-scale distributed systems
• Ability to containerize and automate deployments and tests using CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to work in a small team/rapid prototyping environment and deal with uncertainty and fluidity
• Understanding of standard IT security best practices

Nice to Haves

• Experience with compliance frameworks (e.g. SOC 2 ISO 27001 or FedRAMP).
• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet
• Knowledge of security-related concepts and technologies
• Familiarity with Bazel
• Familiarity with streaming frameworks especially Kafka and Kstreams

The US base salary range for this full-time position is expected to be $183k to $256k per year. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills experience and relevant education or training. This role may be eligible for annual discretionary bonuses and equity.

SandboxAQ welcomes all.

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where we have zero tolerance for discrimination. We invest in our employees personal and professional growth. Once you work with us you cant go back to normalcy because great breakthroughs come from great teams and we are the best in AI and quantum technology.

We offer competitive salaries stock options depending on employment type generous learning opportunities medical/dental/vision family planning/fertility PTO (summer and winter breaks) financial wellness resources 401(k) plans and more.

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity or Veteran status.

Accommodations: We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation please let a member of our Recruiting team know.

Required Experience:

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