Cloud Infrastructure & Security Engineer

About the role

Vendra is building the AI‑native operating system for manufacturing procurement and supply chain. Our goal is simple: build platforms, both external and internal, that allow fewer people to accomplish dramatically more. Think about what Claude Code did for engineers. We are doing that for supply chain. We are looking for a Cloud Infrastructure & Security Engineer to take ownership of the infrastructure behind our products: how we deploy, how our systems scale, how we protect customer data, and how we keep everything running reliably. Today, our core engineering team shares these responsibilities alongside building products. You will turn that work into a reliable, automated foundation that lets the entire team ship faster with confidence. This is a hands‑on engineering role with meaningful ownership. You will work directly with the CTO, make architectural decisions, write code, improve our deployment pipelines, and build security into the way we operate. We already work with ambitious companies across aerospace, defense, robotics, and advanced manufacturing, including teams at Anduril, Mach Industries, and Relativity Space.

Responsibilities

• Get familiar with our AWS infrastructure, applications, deployment workflows, and data systems.
• Work directly with Anish and the founding team to identify the highest‑priority reliability, security, and deployment improvements.
• Remove manual steps and recurring infrastructure issues that slow down engineering.
• Review production access, secrets management, monitoring, and backups, and address the most urgent gaps.
• Take ownership of cloud deployments and CI/CD pipelines across our customer platform, supplier portal, internal tools, and AI workflows.
• Make deployments repeatable, observable, and easy to roll back.
• Manage infrastructure as code and improve consistency across development, staging, and production.
• Strengthen cloud security through least‑privilege access, network isolation, encryption, secrets management, and audit logging.
• Implement useful monitoring and alerting so we catch problems early and diagnose them quickly.
• Give engineers clear, automated ways to deploy and operate services without needing manual infrastructure support for every change.
• Help define and evolve our cloud architecture as our products, customers, and workloads grow.
• Establish tested backup and recovery procedures, incident‑response runbooks, and a shared operational support process.
• Improve system performance, availability, and cloud cost efficiency.
• Automate vulnerability detection, patching workflows, and recurring security checks.
• Partner with the engineering team on application security, data access, and the safe operation of AI workflows.
• Support customer security reviews and relevant compliance work with documented controls and evidence.
• Make infrastructure and security a foundation for faster product development.

Requirements

• 2+ years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or security engineering.
• Experience operating real production systems on AWS, including compute, networking, IAM, storage, and databases.
• Ability to build and debug systems before relying on AI tools, and to reason through networking issues, permissions policies, or failed deployments.
• Comfort using AI‑assisted tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and ability to explain, validate, and troubleshoot generated code and infrastructure changes.
• Experience building and maintaining deployment pipelines, shipping changes safely, debugging failed releases, and recovering from problems.