Head of Infrastructure Engineering - Stealth Aviation Safety Intelligence Startup

Location: Remote

Department: Portfolio roles

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

• Own Scouts cloud infrastructure end-to-end on Azure, including compute, networking, identity, storage, and cost/scaling decisions.
• Architect and evolve the platforms infrastructure to support production-scale reliability as Scout moves from single-customer stabilization to multi-airline, multi-industry deployment.
• Design and own infrastructure-as-code practices, CI/CD pipelines, and observability across the platform.
• Support the data infrastructure layer, including the pipeline between Scouts application and its Databricks data layer.
• Lead load testing, performance, and reliability work ahead of and following production launch.
• Build toward compliance-ready infrastructure as Scout works toward SOC 2 and ISO certifications over the next 18 months.
• Partner closely with the Head of Engineering and existing team to take direct ownership of infrastructure work currently split across multiple people.
• Establish security, backup, and disaster-recovery practices appropriate for an enterprise B2B platform serving safety-critical customers.
• Manage vendor and cost relationships tied to cloud and infrastructure spend as the company scales.

• A technical leader who has owned cloud infrastructure end-to-end at a lean, high-growth startup - not just executed within an already-built platform teams architecture.
• Deep, hands-on with Microsoft Azure specifically - this is a hard requirement, not cloud generally.
• Hands-on and detail-oriented, comfortable making the actual architecture and design calls rather than implementing someone elses.
• Experienced operating with a very small infrastructure team (1-3 people owning everything), not a large infra org with specialized sub-teams.
• Comfortable in ambiguous, high-growth startup environments where priorities shift as the product moves from stabilization to scale.
• Collaborative - able to work closely with engineering, data, and leadership, and to take over ownership of work currently spread across a small team without friction.

• Significant experience owning infrastructure/platform engineering, ideally at Director, Head of Infrastructure, Principal, or Staff level (title matters less than scope owned).
• Deep Azure expertise across compute, networking, identity, and storage - non-negotiable for this role.
• Strong architecture experience - real design ownership, such as leading a cloud migration, designing infrastructure from scratch at an early-stage company, or owning infra-as-code strategy end-to-end. This is a major plus.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM), CI/CD, and observability tooling.
• Familiarity with data infrastructure and pipelines (Databricks experience a plus, not required).
• Experience building toward compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001) from an infrastructure/security standpoint is a strong plus.
• Comfortable owning cost and scaling decisions independently in a lean team.
• No specific industry background required - aviation, safety, or EHS domain experience is a nice to have, but not a factor for this role.

• Own infrastructure for a platform already live in production with a major airline customer, expanding into additional airline and industry partnerships.
• Take a system through the transition from single-customer stabilization to enterprise scale, with real architectural ownership from day one.
• Work directly with Scouts CEO and Head of Engineering as the infrastructure voice in the room - not behind the glass.
• Collaborate with UP.Labs, strategic partners, and investors to drive real impact in aviation and adjacent high-risk industries.
• Earn meaningful equity in a company positioned to transform how high-risk industries prevent catastrophic incidents.
• Remote-friendly. We care about output, not location.

• Risk: We reward our entire team and ecosystem of partners with meaningful equity.
• Technology: We build and launch scalable technology products that form the basis for each venture.
• Industry Focus: We stay focused on the underlying fabric of retail mobility.