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title: 'Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Istari Digital'
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# Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Istari Digital

- **Company:** Istari Digital
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $135k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/istaridigital.ai/b87875ca-8d84-4f59-a8bc-6538a5b1ccbd

## Job description

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our Engineering team. This role is central to building, operating, and scaling the cloud infrastructure that powers our platform, and to making our software easy to deploy both in our cloud-hosted environments and in customer-managed environments.

This engineer will work closely with platform and product engineering to improve the reliability, automation, and operational maturity of our AWS and Kubernetes environments. Some of our environments serve regulated, security-sensitive customers; while deep security specialization is not required, this engineer should be comfortable operating within an established, security-conscious baseline.

The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on infrastructure expertise with a practical, execution-focused mindset and a bias toward automation.

Core Responsibilities

- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure in AWS

- Operate and improve Kubernetes-based environments, including production workloads

- Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform

- Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and release automation in partnership with engineering teams

- Build and maintain the packaging and reference architectures customers use to install our software in their own environments

- Strengthen observability across the platform, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and actionable dashboards

- Improve developer experience through tooling, environment automation, and self-service infrastructure

- Operate within and preserve the established security and compliance posture of our environments

- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex infrastructure issues with clear and timely communication

- Participate in incident response and post-incident analysis

- Develop and maintain documentation, runbooks, and technical standards

- Identify opportunities to improve cost efficiency, performance, and resilience across environments

Required Qualifications

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering

- Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environments

- Proven experience operating Kubernetes in production

- Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices

- Proven experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

- Solid understanding of cloud networking, IAM, secrets management, and operational controls

- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tooling

- Scripting proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, or similar

- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in complex production environments

- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

- Must live/work in the U.S.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience operating stateful workloads on Kubernetes, such as databases or message queues, including persistent storage and backup/recovery

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## Experience with GitOps-based deployment workflows

- Experience packaging software for customer-managed or self-hosted deployment (e.g., Helm charts)

- Familiarity with compliance or security frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST, SOC 2, or similar

- Experience with PostgreSQL, cloud storage platforms, and production networking patterns

- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible

- Experience with additional cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP

- Experience with service mesh or advanced Kubernetes networking

- Experience supporting customer-facing or mission-critical production infrastructure

- Top Secret Security Clearance

## About Istari Digital

Istari is a digital engineering software company building open, scalable infrastructure for engineering data. Our platform lets customers simply and securely integrate engineering models across disciplines, organizations, and security levels — whether they're designing prototypes, performing virtual testing, or training AI and autonomy for complex systems.

Focus is rewarded.  Finish is remembered.

Facts are friendly.  Even when they are not fun.

Fellowship is fundamental.  Make others successful.

## About Istari Digital

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Istari Digital provides a digital engineering infrastructure platform that connects and validates engineering data across fragmented environments for mission-critical industries like aerospace, defense, and energy.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A‑II; venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Arlington, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Dr. Will Roper (CEO) and Christopher Benson (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Aerospace, defense, space, energy, transportation, critical infrastructure
- **Target customers**: Enterprise and government organizations in “no‑fail” sectors (e.g., Lockheed Martin, Blue Origin)
- **Mission**: “Level the digital playing field in no‑fail industries” – enabling secure, auditable, and AI‑native engineering workflows without centralizing sensitive data

## Products & Services
- **[Istari Digital Platform](https://www.istaridigital.com/product)**: A digital infrastructure that securely routes engineering data across tools, teams, and classification boundaries. It connects models, simulations, and workflows to enable real‑time collaboration, system validation, and compliance certification – all while keeping data under the owner’s control. (Type: SaaS / Platform)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $55.05M (per CBInsights) or $40.1M (per LinkedIn); conflicting reports may reflect different round definitions
- **Notable Investors**: Icon Ventures, Teamworthy Ventures, Eric Schmidt, AeroX Ventures, Radius Capital
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount of 64 employees (+61.5% year‑over-year)
  - LinkedIn followers grew 48.1% in the past year
  - Acquired Istari Federal LLC and Dgraph (2025)
  - Customers include Lockheed Martin and Blue Origin
  - 27 patents filed (as of early 2025)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Built for no‑fail industries**: The platform is designed for environments where failure is not an option (fighter jets, satellites, critical infrastructure), giving it a deep credibility moat.
- **Secure collaboration without compromise**: Enables cross‑organization, cross‑classification collaboration while allowing each party to retain control of their own data – a key differentiator in defense and regulated sectors.
- **Agentic engineering & AI‑native workflows**: Integrates AI into engineering validation and certification, reducing cycles from months to minutes.
- **Founders with domain expertise**: CEO Will Roper was the former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics; CTO Christopher Benson brings deep technical experience from hyperscalers and defense programs.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the platform to serve more mission‑critical industries (air, sea, space, energy, transportation)
- Deepening AI capabilities for automated validation, compliance, and certification
- Expanding through acquisitions (Istari Federal, Dgraph) to strengthen federal presence and graph‑based data capabilities
- Building a distributed workforce with offices in Arlington (HQ), Cambridge (MA), and remote roles across the US

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven culture**: Employees work on genuinely hard, unsolved problems in decentralized data sovereignty, AI engineering, and cross‑domain security – with direct impact on national security and critical infrastructure.
- **Remote‑friendly**: Many roles are listed as remote (anywhere US) or hybrid (DMV area); on‑site options exist in Huntsville, AL and Seattle, WA.
- **Diverse team background**: The team comes from defense, industry, academia, government, and startups – “everyone’s background is a feature, not a footnote.”
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth, recent acquisitions, and strong investor backing suggest a high‑growth environment with ample career development opportunities.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on deep curiosity, craft, and solving problems that matter; the platform is built by people who have lived the pain of manual, siloed engineering workflows.

## Sources
1. [Istari Digital – Company & Product Overview](https://www.istaridigital.com/)
2. [Istari Digital – About (Founders, Mission, Culture)](https://www.istaridigital.com/about)
3. [Istari Digital – Product Page](https://www.istaridigital.com/product)
4. [Istari Digital – Careers (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/istaridigital.ai/)
5. [CBInsights – Company Profile & Financials](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/istari-1)
6. [LinkedIn – Istari Digital Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/istaridigital)

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