Principal Security Infrastructure Engineer
Principal Security Infrastructure Engineer
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$ 188100 - 270600
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Job Description
At Vast our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. We are building artificial gravity space stations allowing long-term stays in space without the adverse effects of zero-gravity. Our initial crewed space habitat will be Haven-1 scheduled to be the worlds first commercial space station when it launches into low earth orbit in May 2026. Our team is all-in committed to executing our mission safely and on you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity come join us.
As a Principal Security Infrastructure Engineer you will have the opportunity to build a modern IT infrastructure from the ground up. We build our systems cloud-first with an emphasis on researching and deploying the latest technologies and paradigms. You will identify opportunities to improve and expand our IT infrastructure to enhance speed security and ease of use. You will have the opportunity to plan build test deliver and maintain projects from start to finish. Likewise you will prioritize establishing our IT function to be an ally to enhance employee productivity while balancing security.
This will be a full-time exempt position located in our Long Beach location.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and secure Kubernetes clusters on bare metal and cloud environments emphasizing isolation encryption and policy enforcement.
- Develop and manage secure provisioning for bare metal systems including DHCP DNS PXE/iPXE/HTTPBoot and Linux with an emphasis on measured boot secure boot and hardware trust.
- Build and maintain security tooling and automation (Go Python Bash) for provisioning monitoring and continuous security validation across environments.
- Collaborate with data center operations hardware and networking teams to enforce physical security network segmentation and zero-trust principles.
- Manage infrastructure configuration using GitOps (Git Flux Terraform) with security scanning and policy-as-code controls.
- Establish monitoring and alerting pipelines to detect investigate and respond to security events in infrastructure and cloud systems.
- Maintain and improve system documentation runbooks and security procedures for consistent auditable and repeatable infrastructure operations.
- Conduct threat modeling and risk assessments on infrastructure components driving remediation to reduce the attack surface.
- Support incident response activities including containment analysis and post-incident improvements to infrastructure security.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 3 years experience designing deploying and managing highly available self-hosted security services such as a SIEM
- Years of experience in building modern DevOps tools & best practices: CI/CD systems deployment tools (CloudFormation Terraform Pulumi etc.).
- Deep expertise with the cloud and Kubernetes.
- Understanding of networking/security/auth constructs and requirements.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Experience with Kubernetes security (RBAC PodSecurity admission controllers policy enforcement and runtime security tooling).
- Experience building and maintaining observability pipelines (Falco eBPF OSQuery or similar tooling).
- Proficiency with Linux and Kubernetes bootstrapping with a focus on secure provisioning.
- Experience collaborating with facilities hardware or network teams to enforce physical and logical security in a data center environment.
Pay Range:
- Principal Security Infrastructure Engineer: $188100 - $270600
Salary Range: California
$188100 - $270600 USD
U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls and therefore must either be a U.S. person as defined by 22 C.F.R. 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. This status includes U.S. citizens U.S. nationals lawful permanent residents (green card holders) and asylees and refugees with such status granted not pending.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full Time
