About Harbinger
Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger’s best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.
We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as the primary infrastructure engineer across our cloud and on-premises environments. This role owns the architecture and operations of systems supporting both our corporate workforce and our manufacturing facilities, including the production floor, IoT-connected tooling, and the Manufacturing Execution System (MES). This is a hands-on, broad-scope role. You will design cloud architecture in AWS, manage physical infrastructure in our IDFs and server rooms, and connect our sites together with a secure, scalable
network. You should be comfortable moving between writing Terraform, racking hardware, and troubleshooting production issues that affect real vehicles being built.
What You'll Do
- Own cloud and on-premises infrastructure architecture across corporate and manufacturing environments.
- Architect and operate a multi-region, multi-account AWS environment using Terraform as the foundation for company-wide workloads.
- Design and maintain a hub-and-spoke network across 4+ physical locations using AWS Transit Gateway and site-to-site VPN tunnels, with centralized routing and security controls.
- Maintain a hierarchical IP addressing schema spanning cloud and on-prem to prevent routing conflicts and support third-party integrations.
- Design and operate highly available infrastructure for the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) supporting 80+ workstations and 30+ IoT-connected tools across production, staging, and development.
- Integrate EV charging infrastructure and build custom IoT monitoring for critical factory, facilities, and warehouse systems to reduce operational risk.
- Manage physical infrastructure including bare-metal servers, Ubiquiti networking, Synology storage, and UPS-backed IDF/server room environments.
- Partner with manufacturing, IT, security, and engineering teams to deliver infrastructure that meets uptime and security requirements for a 24/7 production environment.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of systems, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering experience, including ownership of production environments.
- Strong AWS experience: multi-account architecture, VPC design, Transit Gateway, IAM, and core services (EC2, RDS, S3, ECS, Lambda, CloudWatch).
- Deep Terraform experience managing infrastructure as code across multiple environments.
- Solid networking fundamentals: routing, subnetting, VPNs, firewalls, and IP schema design across hybrid environments.
- Experience with on-premises infrastructure: bare-metal servers, enterprise networking (Ubiquiti, Cisco, or similar), storage, and IDF/server room operations.
- Scripting and automation skills in Python, Go, or similar.
- Comfort working in environments where infrastructure issues have direct operational impact (manufacturing, broadcast, trading, healthcare, etc.).
Nice to Have
- Experience in a manufacturing, industrial, or OT/IoT environment.
- Familiarity with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) or other production-floor software.
- Experience with Ansible, Packer, and CI/CD tooling (Buildkite, CircleCI, GitHub Actions).
- Virtualization experience (Proxmox, VMware ESXi).
- Background supporting a fast-growing startup through scaling phases.
- Comprehensive Health, Dental & Vision (HDV) – 100% employee covered
- Early-stage Stock Options
- Robust Retirement Savings (401k, HSA, FSA)
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) & Parental Leave
- Annual Vacation Bonus
- Wellness & Fertility Benefits
- Cell Phone Stipend
- Complimentary Meals & Stocked Kitchens
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps or related roles
- Strong experience with AWS or Azure
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong Linux systems administration skills
- Experience with monitoring tools
- Scripting or programming experience
Harbinger Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for its market and stage, and feedback suggests ranges are posted and compensation is communicated clearly in listings.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is highlighted as 100% employer‑paid for employees across postings, indicating strong medical, dental, and vision support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as generous, with parental leave and an annual vacation bonus appearing alongside core PTO.
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What We Do
Harbinger is a commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger's best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs. Leveraging a foundation of proprietary, in-house developed vehicle technologies designed specifically for commercial vehicles, Harbinger is bringing a first-of-its-kind EV platform to market, priced for zero acquisition premium. Harbinger: familiar form, revolutionary foundation.
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