AllSpice
Director of Infrastructure
Boston · Director
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About the role
- This is a hands-on leadership role: roughly 60% management and strategic work, 40% individual contribution, reporting to the CTO.
- With the team at 1-2 people for the next 12 months, you need to be equally comfortable drafting a Terraform module and presenting a security review to an enterprise customer's CISO.
Responsibilities
- This is a high-impact role that comes with significant autonomy and requires a self-driven, strategic, and collaborative leader. You will own our infrastructure, security, and compliance programs end-to-end.
- Own AllSpice's security posture: policies, incident response, disaster recovery, and ongoing risk assessment
- Maintain SOC 2 compliance, penetration testing, and audit processes
- Partner with customer success and sales to support enterprise deployments, IT security reviews, and SSO/OIDC integrations
- People management and team building
- Hire, mentor, and manage infrastructure engineers as the team grows
- You will own our infrastructure, security, and compliance programs end-to-end.
- Maintain SOC 2 compliance, penetration testing, and audit processes; evaluate additional security certifications as needed
- Participate in the on-call rotation and lead incident response when needed
- Create growth paths for ICs and foster a culture of operational excellence
Requirements
- AWS services (IAM, GuardDuty, Elasticsearch, ElastiCache, Lambda) and experience with other cloud providers (GCP, Azure)
Nice to have
- 8+ 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
- 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)
Skills
- Read more about our latest Series A announcement here!
- Make architectural decisions on infrastructure direction, including cloud strategy, cost optimization, high availability, and scaling
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer InfoSec questionnaires and procurement processes
- Set team goals, define processes, and establish on-call rotations
- 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
- Scale infrastructure for zero-downtime deployments across multi-region AWS accounts
- Stress-test backup and disaster recovery procedures and publish runbooks
- Identify opportunities to reduce cloud spend while improving performance
- Coordinate tabletop exercises and incident response drills with the Security Incident Response Team
- Terraform & Docker Swarm deployed to AWS for production infrastructure
Compensation
- Competitive salary and equity
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Home office stipend
Company info
- Support self-hosted and GovCloud deployments for customers with ITAR, EAR, or CUI requirements
Visa & Work Authorization
- Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card holder)
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