Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Title: Infrastructure Engineer
Department: Information Technology — Infrastructure Engineering
Reports To: Infrastructure Engineering Manager
Location: SFO / Bay area- Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time
Travel: periodic data center and colocation site visits
On-Call: Participates in a shared infrastructure on-call rotation
On-site requirement: this role has hands-on data center responsibility and cannot be performed fully remote.
Eligibility: U.S. citizenship required
About the Role
RapidFort Inc. runs its core systems on infrastructure we own and operate. We are looking for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to be the deepest technical resource on that estate — and the person our Infrastructure Engineering Manager can hand the keys to.
This is a hands-on senior engineering role with a deliberate weighting: roughly 70% Linux systems engineering and automation, 30% data center hardware, storage, and network. You will spend most of your week making the Linux environment more consistent and less manual, and a meaningful part of it with your hands on physical infrastructure.
It is also a deputy role. When the In
