Head of Infrastructure

Location: Latin America — Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

Level: Director — Hands-on Individual Contributor

Compensation: Up to $140,000 USD/year

Company Overview

We’re working with a technology company operating in a highly regulated environment, with strict requirements around security, compliance, and data protection.

The Challenge

We’re looking for a Head of Infrastructure to own and evolve the company’s entire infrastructure stack.

This is a hands-on role with Director-level ownership and no people-management responsibilities. You’ll build, secure, and scale production systems across AWS and GCP while defining the technical standards others will follow as the team grows.

Your scope will include multi-cloud architecture, Kubernetes operations, security and compliance, observability, incident response, and infrastructure automation.

Must Have

• Proven experience building and operating production infrastructure in regulated environments, with requirements such as HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, or similar.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production, including networking, scaling, upgrades, security hardening, and workload orchestration.
• Strong hands-on experience with both AWS and GCP.
• Production experience with Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi or equivalent tools, such as Terraform.
• Experience implementing security controls, audit practices, and data protection processes.
• Familiarity with zero-trust networking and secrets management.
• Experience defining observability standards across logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
• Experience establishing incident response processes, including runbooks, on-call practices, and postmortems.
• Hands-on experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Recent experience as an individual contributor, with direct ownership of production systems.

Nice to Have

• Experience operating Kubernetes across multiple cloud providers.
• Technical leadership experience guiding and unblocking backend engineers who build infrastructure services.
• Hands-on production experience with graph databases such as Neo4j or Amazon Neptune.
• Hands-on production experience with document databases such as Firestore or MongoDB.
• Experience building self-service infrastructure tooling.
• Startup experience.

What Success Looks Like

• You take ownership and proactively identify and resolve technical risks.
• You balance security, reliability, portability, and cost when making architectural decisions.
• You know when to build internally and when to adopt vendor solutions.
• You communicate technical trade-offs clearly and establish standards that help other engineers succeed.
• You remain close to implementation while shaping the infrastructure’s long-term direction.