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title: 'Sr. Infrastructure Engineer - Deployment Team at Istari Digital'
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# Sr. Infrastructure Engineer - Deployment Team at Istari Digital

- **Company:** Istari Digital
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $135k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/istaridigital.ai/814644aa-8c5c-4270-a6d4-49ffaaa04235

## Job description

We are seeking a Senior Platform Services Engineer to join our Platform Services team within Customer Success. This role is central to deploying, operating, and supporting the Istari platform across customer environments, from pre-sales technical scoping through production operations and ongoing support. This engineer will work directly with customers and cross-functionally with sales, product engineering, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, secure platform deployments. Our customers include defense, aerospace, and commercial organizations operating in regulated, security-sensitive environments; this engineer should be comfortable operating within established security and compliance baselines across AWS GovCloud, Azure IL5, on-premises, and air-gapped networks. The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on infrastructure expertise with customer-facing communication skills, a consulting mindset, and a bias toward automation.

Core Responsibilities

- Deploy and maintain the Istari platform in customer environments using Terraform and Helm across multiple deployment variants (EKS, AKS, OpenShift, on-premises Kubernetes)

- Support customer networking requirements including firewall rule scoping, VPN/IPSec configuration, DNS coordination, and connectivity troubleshooting

- Configure and troubleshoot identity provider integrations (Zitadel, SAML, OIDC, SSO with KeyCloak, PingFederate, Okta, Azure AD)

- Enable and operate services for cross-organization data sharing, including Secure Sync deployment, KMS policy exchange, IAM roles, and S3 access configuration

- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code packages and reference architectures for customer-managed deployments

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

## Qualifications

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

- Solid understanding of cloud networking, VPN/IPSec, firewalls, IAM, and secrets management

- Experience with identity providers and federation protocols (SAML, OIDC, SSO, Active Directory)

- Database knowledge including transaction write-ahead logging, backup/restore operations, and monitoring

- Experience with graph query languages (SPARQL, Cypher, DQL, or similar)

- Proven experience operating Kubernetes in production

- Experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes application packaging

- Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or Ansible

- Experience working directly with external customers in a technical delivery or consulting capacity

- 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

- U.S. Citizen

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with AWS GovCloud, Azure Government (IL4/IL5), or other regulated cloud environments

- Experience with OpenShift, ROSA, or non-standard Kubernetes distributions

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

- Industry certifications such as CompTIA (Network+, Security+, Linux+), AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS SysOps Administrator Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, or similar

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## Experience with network analysis tools (Wireshark, tcpdump)

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

- Experience with service mesh or advanced Kubernetes networking (Istio, Envoy)

- Active security clearance (Secret or Top Secret)

## 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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