About the role
Who We Are
AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving. Our customers include some of the world’s largest airlines and ground handling providers. For more information, visit www.aerovect.com.
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (On-Prem) at AeroVect, you will own and scale the physical infrastructure that supports our autonomous vehicle operations at our garage facilities. Your primary focus will be deploying, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting bare-metal servers, networking equipment, and rack infrastructure to ensure reliable operations across our active airport deployments.
This is a highly hands-on infrastructure role, ideal for someone with a strong background in Linux systems administration, data center infrastructure, physical networking, and hardware reliability. You don't need to be a software engineer. We're looking for someone who enjoys working directly with hardware, building reliable infrastructure, and solving complex operational challenges.
You'll work in a fast-paced environment where infrastructure directly supports autonomous vehicles operating in live airport environments. As AeroVect scales its fleet and expands to new locations, you'll play a key role in building standardized, reliable, and scalable on-prem infrastructure.
You Will
* Deploy, configure, and maintain bare-metal Linux servers and computing infrastructure at AeroVect's garage facilities.
* Own physical infrastructure setup, including server racks, cabling, power distribution, hardware installation, and equipment organization.
* Configure, manage, and troubleshoot networking equipment, including switches, routers, firewalls, and network connectivity across on-prem systems.
* Manage the lifecycle of physical infrastructure, from hardware selection and procurement through installation, maintenance, upgrades, and replacement.
* Monitor and troubleshoot server health, network performance, hardware failures, and infrastructure reliability to minimize operational downtime.
* Establish infrastructure standards, documentation, and repeatable deployment processes as AeroVect expands to additional garage locations.
* Support connectivity and data transfer between autonomous vehicles, garage infrastructure, and cloud systems.
* Maintain and improve existing infrastructure supporting vehicle software delivery and operational data uploads.
* Develop lightweight automation and scripting solutions using Bash or Python to simplify system administration, monitoring, and infrastructure management.
* Collaborate with software, cloud infrastructure, and autonomy engineering teams to ensure reliable integration between physical infrastructure and software systems.
* Provide hands-on troubleshooting and operational support in a dynamic environment where infrastructure availability directly impacts vehicle operations.
You Have
* 5+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, Linux systems administration, data center operations, or a similar technical role.
* Strong experience deploying, configuring, and maintaining bare-metal Linux servers in on-prem environments.
* Hands-on experience with server racks, cabling, hardware installation, power management, and physical infrastructure troubleshooting.
* Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, switching, and network troubleshooting.
* Experience configuring and maintaining physical networking equipment such as switches, routers, and firewalls.
* Strong Linux administration skills, including system configuration, troubleshooting, performance monitoring, storage management, and system-level debugging.
* Experience diagnosing hardware and network failures and implementing solutions to improve infrastructure reliability.
* Familiarity with infrastructure monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
* Ability to work independently, take ownership of infrastructure projects, and troubleshoot issues directly in the field.
* Comfortable working in a fast-paced operational environment with evolving infrastructure needs and priorities.
We Prefer
* Experience managing on-prem infrastructure in robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, manufacturing, or other hardware-intensive environments.
* Experience building or scaling physical infrastructure across multiple operational sites.
* Familiarity with server provisioning, configuration management, or infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible.
* Experience with virtualization, containerization, or on-prem compute orchestration.
* Basic Python or Bash scripting experience for infrastructure automation.
* Familiarity with edge computing, vehicle connectivity, or data transfer between on-prem and cloud environments.
* Experience supporting software deployment to physical devices or embedded systems.
* Familiarity with hardware lifecycle management, infrastructure capacity planning, and redundancy strategies.
* Exposure to high-availability environments where infrastructure downtime directly impacts physical operations.