Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Denver, CO (Hybrid)

Simple sense builds, deploys, and sustains the Installation Resilience Platform that enables mission operators to rapidly adapt and respond. The Platform protects critical infrastructure from cyber attack while unlocking previously siloed information to monitor, diagnose, and improve response times to incidents. Our adversaries rapidly adopt the latest technology: we help defense users respond in kind.

Simple sense is a non-traditional defense contractor and prime on the Air Force's Installation Resilience Operations Command and Control (IROC) program, which is now expanding to five additional Air Force, Space Force, and Army installations from the one prototype installation, Tyndall Air Force Base.

Our team combines over 100 years of direct mission experience solving hard problems with 50 years technical expertise deploying Dev Sec Ops , cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure, giving us a deep appreciation for our customers' mission and end users' priorities. We build for scale, architecting and prioritizing technical work for long term sustainability.

As our Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer, you will play a critical role in securely and efficiently onboarding customer facilities into our hybrid-cloud platform services. You will design and implement scalable infrastructure automation, configuration-driven tooling, Linux systems, and network infrastructure workflows that make deployment and lifecycle management across customer environments repeatable, secure, and efficient. You will partner closely with the Connectivity and broader engineering teams to automate the provisioning, configuration, validation, maintenance, and sustainment of infrastructure spanning facility-edge, on-premises, and cloud-connected environments.

Work Model:
We prioritize candidates who reside in the Denver, CO area (hybrid as needed) but we are open to exceptional remote talent.

• Locals:
  Onsite as needed for collaborative workspace time.
• Remote:
  Quarterly travel to hub locations for team syncs and alignment.

We measure performance across two key dimensions:
How you perform your role (Our Core Values) and What your role entails (Your Execution).

At Simple sense, we value high-trust autonomy. We look for builders who can comfortably navigate ambiguity and are deeply driven by our shared national security mission.

• People Always – Win as One Team: We foster a culture of psychological safety and mutual support. We operate as an integrated team where we assume noble intent as our default setting, ensuring that even the toughest feedback is rooted in trust. We trade our silos for a shared mission because collective impact always outweighs individual achievement.
• Empathize – Obsess Over the Customer: We don't just solve technical problems; we empathize and advocate for the operators using our products. We look beyond the surface to build what our customers—both internal and external—actually need to succeed, not just what they asked for.
• Focus – Ruthlessly Prioritize with Urgency: We focus on the highest-impact work and ruthlessly say no to distractions. We build resilient systems so that our solutions can repeat and scale under pressure.
• Let's Go – Catalyze the Change You Seek: We don't wait for the industry to change; we drive it. We seek to understand why things are the way they are, but we never use "the way it's always been" as an excuse. We aren't afraid to change course when the data or our mission demands it.

• Infrastructure Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code: Lead the design and implementation of reusable tooling, configuration management, and network infrastructure-as-code workflows that automate the lifecycle of Connectivity network infrastructure across customer environments.
• Linux & Network Infrastructure: Develop and maintain automation for Linux-based systems and network appliances, including system bootstrapping, secure configuration generation, package and software management, network configuration, updates, and validation.
• Infrastructure Provisioning & Lifecycle: Translat…