Sr. Systems Engineer
Garden Grove, CA - USA
Job Summary
About Harbinger
Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbingers best-in-class team of EV battery and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form Revolutionary Foundation.
We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as the primary infrastructure engineer across ourcloud and on-premises environments. This role owns the architecture and operations of systemssupporting both our corporate workforce and our manufacturing facilities including the production floorIoT-connected tooling and the Manufacturing Execution System (MES).This is a hands-on broad-scope role. You will design cloud architecture in AWS manage physicalinfrastructure in our IDFs and server rooms and connect our sites together with a secure scalable
network. You should be comfortable moving between writing Terraform racking hardware andtroubleshooting production issues that affect real vehicles being built.
What Youll Do
- Own cloud and on-premises infrastructure architecture across corporate and manufacturingenvironments.
- Architect and operate a multi-region multi-account AWS environment using Terraform as thefoundation for company-wide workloads.
- Design and maintain a hub-and-spoke network across 4 physical locations using AWS TransitGateway and site-to-site VPN tunnels with centralized routing and security controls.
- Maintain a hierarchical IP addressing schema spanning cloud and on-prem to prevent routingconflicts and support third-party integrations.
- Design and operate highly available infrastructure for the Manufacturing Execution System (MES)supporting 80 workstations and 30 IoT-connected tools across production staging anddevelopment.
- Integrate EV charging infrastructure and build custom IoT monitoring for critical factory facilities andwarehouse systems to reduce operational risk.
- Manage physical infrastructure including bare-metal servers Ubiquiti networking Synology storageand UPS-backed IDF/server room environments.
- Partner with manufacturing IT security and engineering teams to deliver infrastructure that meetsuptime and security requirements for a 24/7 production environment.
What Were Looking For
- 7 years of systems infrastructure or DevOps engineering experience including ownership ofproduction environments.
- Strong AWS experience: multi-account architecture VPC design Transit Gateway IAM and coreservices (EC2 RDS S3 ECS Lambda CloudWatch).
- Deep Terraform experience managing infrastructure as code across multiple environments.
- Solid networking fundamentals: routing subnetting VPNs firewalls and IP schema design acrosshybrid environments.
- Experience with on-premises infrastructure: bare-metal servers enterprise networking (UbiquitiCisco or similar) storage and IDF/server room operations.
- Scripting and automation skills in Python Go or similar.
- Comfort working in environments where infrastructure issues have direct operational impact(manufacturing broadcast trading healthcare etc.).
Nice to Have
- Experience in a manufacturing industrial or OT/IoT environment.
- Familiarity with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) or other production-floor software.
- Experience with Ansible Packer and CI/CD tooling (Buildkite CircleCI GitHub Actions).
- Virtualization experience (Proxmox VMware ESXi).
- Background supporting a fast-growing startup through scaling phases.
- Comprehensive Health Dental & Vision (HDV) 100% employee covered
- Early-stage Stock Options
- Robust Retirement Savings (401k HSA FSA)
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) & Parental Leave
- Annual Vacation Bonus
- Wellness & Fertility Benefits
- Cell Phone Stipend
- Complimentary Meals & Stocked Kitchens
California Pay Range
$160000 - $200000 USD
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Familiar form. Revolutionary foundation. Harbinger Motors is a EV manufacturer focused on commercial vehicles.