Team Infrastructure is responsible for maintaining and improving Glias cloudnative core infrastructure ensuring its availability security and performance. The team also implements and supports CI/CD monitoring and other tools allowing our product teams to move fast without breaking things.
The work
Some of the Infrastructure Engineers responsibilities include:
- maintaining and updating Glias core infrastructure;
- troubleshooting and resolving infrastructurerelated issues;
- improving our security posture;
- implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines;
- implementing support for telemetry;
- consulting other teams on infrastructurerelated topics;
- working with thirdparty vendors and service providers.
Infrastructure Engineers report to the teams Engineering Manager. The teams work is driven by business goals with priorities defined in collaboration with the Director of Engineering. All projects within the teams space are planned led and executed by engineers. There is a compensated oncall duty with at least oneweek rotation per month.
The teams setup:
Team Infrastructure has engineers in Vancouver Toronto and Halifax our processes are optimized for remote collaboration. Working within any Canadian timezone is required.
For this role we hire in:
Our tech stack
- Infrastructure: AWS Kubernetes (AWS EKS) Service Mesh
- Persistence: Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL)
- Cache: Amazon ElastiCache (Redis/Valkey)
- Event Streaming: Apache Kafka
- Message Broker: RabbitMQ
- Monitoring: DataDog
- CI/CD: Jenkins Github Actions ArgoCD
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
Additionally engineering teams at Glia use:
- Backend: Elixir Ruby Python Javascript
- Frontend: JavaScript and ReactJS
- Native mobile SDKs: Java and Swift
Requirements
- Platform Engineering Exposure Experience with platforms and understanding fundamental platform engineering concepts.
- Terraform Proficiency Handson experience with Terraform in at least one wellstructured project understanding modulebased infrastructure as code (IaC) practices.
- GitOps Fundamentals Familiarity with GitOps principles and handson experience with at least one tool (e.g. ArgoCD FluxCD or similar).
- AWS Experience Competence in AWS services particularly IAM EC2 S3 Lambda and API Gateway. Strong general AWS networking knowledge.
- Serverless Understanding Comfortable with AWS serverless services able to deploy and manage simple functions and eventdriven architectures.
- Security Awareness Understanding basic compliance (SOC2 ISO27001 etc. and AWS security best practices.
- Networking Fundamentals Understanding of VPCs subnets and security groups. Able to debug basic networking issues.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English.
Preferred/Bonus Skills
- Experience with oncall rotation or willingness to learn.
- Experience working across time zones and handling asynchronous communication effectively.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes.
- Contributions to opensource projects.
Benefits
- Stock options and Competitive salary
- Professional development support (trainings courses conferences books etc)
- Access to all the latest tools and equipment youll need
- Sports compensation reimbursement for therapy counseling sessions
- Team events: annual employee awards internal hackathons and a dozen cool events from cooking to the Glia olympic games :
- Diversity: 25 countries represented
Required Experience:
Senior IC