Network & Infrastructure Architect

Company Description

enQase is a USA-based, full-stack quantum-safe security platform that integrates advanced cryptography, quantum hardware, and a robust integration layer to ensure comprehensive protection for the quantum era. The enQase Platform empowers enterprises, defense organizations, cloud providers, and critical infrastructure operators to seamlessly adopt quantum-safe technologies and achieve crypto agility. By aligning with NIST standards, enQase delivers flexibility, compliance readiness, and risk reduction across data, network, and compute layers. With a focus on ensuring operational resilience, enQase enables secure transitions to the evolving cryptographic landscape.

Location

United States (Hybrid or Remote)

Work Authorization Requirement

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. We are unable to sponsor or transfer employment visas at this time.

Role Summary

We are seeking a network and infrastructure architect to own deployment, reliability, and scale of our distributed cryptographic and networking infrastructure.

This person will turn architecture into repeatable, production-grade deployments across enterprise environments. The focus is operational discipline, uptime, integration reliability, automation, and deployment velocity.

This is not a research or strategy role. This is a hands-on role.

1. Key Responsibilities1. Deployment & Operational Scale

• Own end-to-end infrastructure deployments (on-prem, hybrid, cloud, air-gapped)
• Standardize installation, integration, and configuration workflows
• Build repeatable deployment playbooks and runbooks
• Reduce implementation timelines and operational friction

2. Use Case Development & Productionization

• Work with leadership to define priority enterprise use cases (e.g., secure site-to-site connectivity, quantum-safe VPN, secure data center interconnect)
• Translate use cases into reference architectures and deployment templates
• Validate performance, reliability, and operational readiness
• Turn pilot deployments into standardized production offerings

3. Cross-Functional Coordination

Serve as the operational bridge between:

• Engineering
• Hardware teams
• Product
• Field sales
• Customer IT and security teams

Ensure requirements are clearly translated into deployable solutions

Coordinate issue resolution across teams during deployments

4. Infrastructure & Network Operations

• Manage distributed node environments and control-plane reliability
• Oversee routing, VPN, segmentation, and secure transport integrations
• Implement high-availability and failover configurations
• Troubleshoot enterprise integration challenges

5. Automation, Monitoring & Reliability

• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code standards
• Build automated provisioning and configuration workflows
• Define uptime metrics and SLAs
• Establish monitoring, logging, and incident response processes

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years in infrastructure, networking, or platform operations

Strong background in setting up and configuring:

• Routing, switching, VPNs, segmentation
• High-availability environments
• Hybrid and multi-cloud deployments
• Experience running production systems with uptime accountability
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads
• Experience integrating security infrastructure (PKI, HSM, identity systems)
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills

Compensation

Competitive salary, performance bonus, and equity participation commensurate with experience.