Infrastructure Engineer

Atlanta, GA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 11 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

What We Do:

Brightwell is a payments company on a mission to make money movement faster safer and more accessible whether across town or around the world. We build the full experience for banks and credit unions: from the mobile interfaces that guide account holders through transfers to the platform infrastructure powering it all behind the scenes. That means multi-corridor payment routing partner integrations across financial networks and real-time compliance and fraud detection with the reliability requirements that come with moving peoples money.

Werea 65-person team based in Atlanta scaling fast as more financial institutions sign on. The work moves quickly the impact is tangible and what you build will be in the hands of real users at real for bold thinkers to help us get there.

Where We Work:

This is aremoteposition open to candidates currentlyresidingin FL GA IL or TX.
Atlanta-areacandidates will workhybrid(2 days/week in office at The Battery).
All other candidates will work fully remote with quarterly travel to Atlantarequired.

Who We Need:

Werelooking for an Infrastructure Engineer to help bring our Azure infrastructure under Terraform and build the platform our product teams depend on. We have a running production environment; now we need someone to codify it automate it and make it your time evenly between platform engineering and operational work with a clear mandate to reduce the operational burden over time.

This is a hands-on technical role with a 50/50 split. Half your time will be spent on platform engineering: Terraforming existing Azure infrastructure building automation improving observability and collaborating with InfoSec on compliance controls. The other half is operational: supporting product teams with infrastructure requestsmaintainingCI/CD pipelines monitoring systems and responding to incidents.

WhatYoullDo:

Balance platform engineering with operational work (50/50 split).
Platform Engineering (50%):

Terraform existing Azure infrastructure. This is the primary mission from day one.
Use AI-assisted tools (Claude Code Cursor GitHub Copilot) to accelerateIaCdevelopment automation scripting and configuration management.
Automate repetitive tasks and build self-service tooling.
Improve observability and monitoring capabilities.
Create runbooks and technical documentation.
Collaborate with InfoSec on security and compliance controls.
Work with your manager (Engineering Manager Infrastructure & Platform) on platform strategy and priorities.

Operational Work (50%):

Support product teams with Azure infrastructure requests.
Manage Azure resources (VMs Serverless Functions App Services SQL networking etc.).
MaintainCI/CD pipelines and troubleshoot deployment issues.
Apply patches updates and security fixes.
Monitorproductionsystemshealth performance and costs.
Respond to incidents andparticipatein weekly on-call rotation.

WhatWereLooking For:

5 years in infrastructure/platform/DevOps roles.
Strong Azure experience (App Services Serverless databases networking identity).
Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform or Bicep.
Monitoring: Azure Monitor Application Insights Datadog Grafana etc.
CI/CD: Azure DevOps GitHub Actions or similar.
Scripting: TypeScript PowerShell Python or Bash.
Understanding ofnetworking DNS SSL/TLSmTLS.
Experienceleveragingmodern AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code Cursor GitHub Copilot) to accelerate infrastructure automation and engineering workflows.
Comfortable with on-call responsibilities.

Bonus Points:

Fintech or regulated industry experience (SOC 2 PCI).
Configuration management: Ansible etc.
GitOpspractices.

What Success Looks Like:

First30 days: Understand our Azure environment shadow on-call and start Terraforming your first resources.
First90 days: Own on-call shifts have meaningfulIaCcoverage in place andestablishpatterns the team can build on.
First year: Reduce manual ticket volume by 30% improve deployment reliability and build self-service capabilities that free the team to focus on platform strategy.

On-Call Details:

Weekly on-call rotation (alternating with team).
Typical escalations: deployment issues performance problems outages.
Maintenance windowreserved foronce a month on Saturday used as needed.

Why Work Here:

Real Ownership & Impact:Take charge of your work with full autonomy what you build ships to real users at real financial institutions around the world.
Entrepreneurial Spirit:We welcome bold thinkers who are passionate about driving change solving hard problems and pushing innovation forward.
Growth & Development:We invest in your career with professional development support and expanding opportunities as we scale.
Flexible & Collaborative Team:Enjoy a remote-friendly environment and a tight-knit inclusive team with opportunities for both social and professional engagement.
Competitive Benefits:Medical dental vision disability 401(k) with match flexible spending accounts paid parental leave paid vacation and more.

Brightwell is an equal opportunity employer committed to employing a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

What We Do:Brightwell is a payments company on a mission to make money movement faster safer and more accessible whether across town or around the world. We build the full experience for banks and credit unions: from the mobile interfaces that guide account holders through transfers to the platform...