Senior IT Infrastructure & Security Engineer

The future of defense will be decided by those who field intelligent machines at scale. At Scout AI, we're developing Fury, the first robotic foundation model for defense, to give U.S. forces overwhelming, adaptable, and autonomous power across every domain. Fury enables human operators to command fleets of robots through natural language, and empowers those machines to sense, decide, and act together as one. This mission will ask everything of us: urgency, precision, and relentless work. The Role Scout AI is seeking a Senior IT Infrastructure & Security Engineer to design, build, and operate a secure network and infrastructure that protects CUI data and maintains CMMC Level 2 compliance. You'll be our first dedicated networking hire, owning the entire stack from network architecture and data segmentation to device management and IT operations. Your primary focus is building a secure, compliant network foundation. You'll design network architecture that protects sensitive data, implement CMMC Level 2 controls, and automate operations (device provisioning, monitoring, deployments). This role combines network design, infrastructure-as-code, IT operations, and compliance. You'll own network segmentation and data flows, build compliant infrastructure on AWS/Azure, manage company devices and access control, automate operational tasks with code, and maintain systems when things break. Responsibilities Design and implement secure network architecture that protects CUI and enforces network segmentation per NIST SP 800-171 Build and maintain CMMC-compliant infrastructure: access controls, encryption, monitoring, and audit logging Develop and maintain Scout's System Security Plan Implement network hardening, intrusion detection, and threat monitoring; manage firewall rules and VPNs Architect, deploy, and operate cloud and on-premises infrastructure supporting all Scout operations Provision and manage employee devices; maintain OS patches, software updates, and hardware refres