Infrastructure Engineer at Drivewealth

DriveWealth is a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices. Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. DriveWealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options. We seek enthusiastic professionals to contribute diverse perspectives and experiences to our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform. Our culture blends the pace and opportunity of a tech start-up with the impact, stability, and significance of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. We value diversity and inclusion, celebrating the unique differences of our employees as we scale and grow together. We’re guided by operating principles grounded in accountability, teamwork, integrity, and solutions built to scale. Join us! About the Role As a seasoned Infrastructure Engineer, you will design, manage, and scale our high-performance computing environments. This role bridges the gap between traditional system administration and modern platform engineering, focusing on reliability, automation, and the stringent security requirements of the financial services industry. You will be responsible for a hybrid ecosystem that spans AWS cloud and on-premise systems, ensuring 99.99% uptime for mission-critical services and transactions. What You’ll Do • Linux Systems Engineering: Design and manage high-performance Linux environments including Ubuntu, RHEL, or Amazon Linux. Focus on tuning for low- latency financial applications and system-level hardening • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Architect and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, treating infrastructure as a software project with version control and peer reviews • Hybrid Networking: Manage connectivity between cloud environments and on-premise systems, focusing on secure VPC design, VPNs, and routing • On-Premise Management: Manage physical switches, routers, and firewalls, with an understanding of multicast, VLANs, and interface aggregation • CI/CD & Release Engineering: Build and optimize deployment pipelines to ensure system updates, patches, and application code are deployed safely and frequently • Observability & Reliability: Implement comprehensive monitoring (using Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana) to track system SLIs/SLOs and implement automated alerting or self- healing scripts • Container Platform Management: Support and scale Docker / Podman environments, focusing on pod networking and container runtimes • Infrastructure Security: Implement "shift-left" security, including OS-level hardening (SELinux, AppArmor), automated vulnerability scanning, and IAM policy refinement What You’ll Need • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or a related field • Systems Expertise: 3+ years of experience in Linux Administration or Infrastructure Engineering • System Internals: Deep knowledge of system performance profiling (e.g., top, iostat, strace) and comfort with Linux system fundamentals (i.e. Systemd, LVM, and Cron) • Automation Proficiency: Strong proficiency in Ansible and Terraform for infrastructure and system automation. Bash and/or Python experience for custom tooling as required • Cloud & Networking Fundamentals: Hands-on experience with AWS Networking fundamentals (VPCs, Routing Tables, and Nat Gateways). Solid understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, and routing protocols like BGP or OSPF • Container Runtime: Experience with container runtimes in a Production environment (Docker / Podman, Docker Compose). Kubernetes experience is a plus • Problem Solving: Ability to perform root-cause analysis on complex distributed systems Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor an employment Visa at this time. Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Required) • Compliance Knowledge: Experience working within regulated environments such as SOC2, or FINRA • High-Availability Architecture: Experience building multi-region, failover-capable architectures for mission-critical financial transactions • SDLC Architecture: Architecting deployment pipelines using GitHub actions, familiarity with AWS Secrets Manager for managing sensitive secrets, and other DevOps toolchain services • Fintech Protocols: Basic understanding of financial messaging or low-latency requirements, such as FIX protocol • Security & Application Tuning: Experience with WAF, DDoS mitigation strategies, and tuning edge application services such as HAProxy • Certifications: CompTIA Linux+, RHCSA/RHCE, or AWS SysOps Administrator Compensation Compensation package offerings are based on candidate experience and technical qualifications, as it relates to the role. These are identified and determined throughout your interviewing experience. Please note: this role is expected to come into our office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team. New York, NY (Hybrid) Pay Range$150,000—$180,000 USDBenefits • Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance options • Mental health resources • Generous paid time off with observed holidays (varies per country) • Paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents • Up to $2,500 or local equivalent each year to invest in continued education and personal development • Up to $900 each year or local equivalent for fitness and wellness reimbursement • Company-provided phone (varies by country) • For HQ in-office employees, a daily lunch stipend, unlimited snacks, and engaging office space in the Financial District • Pre-tax commuter benefits (US only) • Employer 401K match (US only) Benefit offerings vary based on country and are subject to change. Equal Employment Opportunity To build technology and products that are used and loved by people and solve real-world problems, we need to build a team with many different perspectives and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us at [Upgrade to PRO to see contact]. Agency Disclaimer DriveWealth does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, employees, or any other organization location. DriveWealth is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.