About the role

What will you do at Raydar?

Our client is an early-stage industrial software company building an AI-driven production orchestration platform for aerospace, defense, and advanced-manufacturing customers. The company has raised approximately $11M, is preparing for a Series A, employs roughly 30 people, and works with high-profile manufacturers including leaders in space and defense.

You will be the first dedicated Site Reliability Engineer and own critical infrastructure end to end. This is a greenfield opportunity to architect the path from AWS to on-premises and air-gapped deployments, support customer-specific cloud environments, and improve observability and delivery systems across the platform.

Design, build, scale, and operate cloud and on-premises infrastructure as the sole SRE. Architect migrations from AWS into on-premises and air-gapped environments. Bring 1-4 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps, including containerization.

End-to-end infrastructure ownership at a startup or small team is important. Experience with on-premises, hybrid cloud, restricted, or regulated deployments is strongly valued. Hands-on AWS, GCP, or Azure experience is required; Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Terragrunt, OpenTofu, CI/CD, GitOps, networking, and observability tooling are valuable.

US citizenship or permanent residency is required.

$120K-$180K base salary plus competitive equity. Full-time and on-site five days per week in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Relocation support is available.

Visa sponsorship and transfers are not available. You will have rare greenfield ownership as the first dedicated SRE at a mission-driven industrial technology company.

Which skills does this role require?

Site Reliability EngineeringCloud InfrastructureDevOpsContainerizationAWSGCPAzureKubernetesDockerTerraformTerragruntOpenTofuCI/CDGitOpsNetworkingObservabilitySite Reliability EngineerOn-premisesAir-gappedHybrid CloudAerospaceDefenseAdvanced ManufacturingIndustrial SoftwareProduction OrchestrationAI-drivenStartup

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