Senior Infrastructure Engineer

The big picture: Axios is a respected media company dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news content in an audience-first format known as  Smart Brevity™. We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to drive the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and security posture, spearhead automation initiatives, and elevate observability across our platform.

Why it matters: As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Axios, you’ll architect and implement scalable, reliable, and secure solutions designed to meet the needs of our business and audience. In this role, you will dedicate approximately 50% of your time to day-to-day infrastructure and cloud security responsibilities, as well as contribute to the development of our long-term security roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the deployment and optimization of cloud-based systems, ensuring security, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Lead and perform day-to-day infrastructure and cloud security tasks, including implementing controls, identifying potential vulnerabilities, and collaborating on remediation efforts.
• Partner with engineering and leadership teams to help shape and maintain the group’s security roadmap.
• Develop and maintain high-quality automation frameworks that streamline configuration and deployment processes.
• Enhance monitoring systems, implement best practices, and improve insight into service performance, availability, and reliability.
• Design robust, efficient infrastructure solutions that balance technical and business requirements.
• Coach less-experienced engineers on infrastructure best practices, coding standards, and emerging technologies.
• Partner with product, data, and QE teams to deliver end-to-end infrastructure enhancements. 

Skills:

• Deep knowledge of cloud, infrastructure, and platform security best practices, including IAM, encryption, secrets management, threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, and compliance.
• Proven expertise with AWS services, including EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, IAM, S3, and SecretsManager.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes, including cluster provisioning, scaling, and management.
• Hands-on proficiency in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Strong scripting or programming skills in Go, Python, or Bash for building and maintaining infrastructure tooling.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
• Demonstrated leadership in guiding teams, providing technical direction, and aligning projects with organizational goals.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive cross-functional solutions.

What success looks like:

• Security & Compliance: Spent ~50% of time on proactive security initiatives, including automated vulnerability scans, implementation of controls, remediation, and contributions to the long-term security roadmap.
• Cloud Infrastructure Excellence: Architected, deployed, and optimized AWS environments that meet defined performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency targets.
• Automated Delivery: Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines that deliver consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Innovation & Tooling Adoption: Evaluated, piloted, and integrated new infrastructure tools and methodologies that measurably improve performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Observability & Reliability: Defined and implemented monitoring, alerting, and SLOs in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Cross-Functional Impact: Collaborated with product and QE teams to deliver major infrastructure enhancements that directly support business goals.

Starting salary for this role is in the range of $101,000 - $191,000 and is dependent on numerous factors, including but not limited to location, work experience, and skills. This range does not include other compensation and benefits. Axios' compensation philosophy takes into account cost of labor differentials across the country. Because this is a remote-optional job posting, this salary range takes into account all possible locations within the United States, but candidates will only be eligible for the salary range for their location.

What Axios brings to the table besides salary:

• 401(k) with employer match
• Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
• Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
• Dental and vision coverage
• Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
• Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
• One mental health day per quarter
• Annual learning and development stipend
• $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
• Tele-mental health services through Headspace
• OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
• Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate 
• Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
• Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies 
• Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers 
• Virtual company-sponsored social events
• A strong and positive work environment
• A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Axios is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Axios makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.