Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Lead

About Goodwall

Goodwall is a TIME100 award-winning social education app, empowering over 4 million youth with skills in AI, climate, and entrepreneurship through impactful experiential learning. We serve as the trusted bridge to impact and connect GenZalpha with Fortune 500 companies, governments, and international organizations, including Microsoft, Accenture, EY, HP and UNICEF. We co-build engaging experiential learning campaigns for the next generation to help young people across the globe gain the confidence, skills, and networks to achieve better livelihoods. Backed by leading investors, Goodwall has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Innovator, TIME100 Top EdTech, and featured by FastCompany, Bloomberg, CNBC and Forbes.

Your Role

As our Infrastructure & Cybersecurity Lead, you will lead cloud architecture, systems reliability, CI/CD automation, and corporate security posture. You will ensure scalable, high-performing cloud infrastructure while safeguarding organizational assets through proactive security management, compliance, and incident response.

What You Will Do

• Cybersecurity & Compliance: Execute vulnerability scanning and security hardening. Ensure compliance with security standards and policies.
• Cloud Strategy & Management (AWS / GCP / Docker): Architect, implement, and maintain servers. Oversee logging, auditing, alerting, resource monitoring, domain/DNS zones, disaster recovery, and incident response. Drive IaC with Terraform, performance tuning, and cloud cost optimization.
• CI/CD Pipelines & Automation: Build, optimize, and maintain automated deployment pipelines while strictly enforcing secrets management.
• Software & System Integration: Oversee software dependency updates, infrastructure-to-backend integrations, and ETL data pipeline operations.
• Operations & Governance: Lead infrastructure budget forecasting and account billing. Establish and enforce IT/Security policies across the organization.

What You Will Bring

• Cloud & DevOps: AWS, GCP, Terraform
• Virtualization & OS: Docker, Linux
• Networking & Security: TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS
• Databases & Search: MySQL
• Programming & Scripting: Bash, Python, JavaScript

Nice to Have

• Cloud & DevOps: GitLab CI/CD
• Networking & Security: AI for automation & security; familiarity with NIST, SOC 2 frameworks
• Databases & Search: Redis / Valkey, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
• Programming & Scripting: Node.js, Elixir, Go