Senior Infrastructure Engineer
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Job Description
Position Overview
We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our team and take ownership of the companys infrastructure systems. As the inaugural infrastructure hire you will play a pivotal role in designing implementing and maintaining the technical foundation that supports our business. This is a hands-on position with significant responsibility working closely with engineering and product teams to ensure our systems are secure scalable and highly performant.
As the organization grows this role will evolve to include defining and shaping the structure of our infrastructure team and establishing best practices across the company.
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure Management
- Design provision and maintain AWS resources using Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Manage compute storage databases networking and IAM policies including EC2 ECS/EKS S3 EFS RDS DynamoDB VPCs and Load Balancers.
Containerization & Orchestration
- Build optimize and maintain Docker images and registries.
- Operate container clusters (ECS EKS Kubernetes) and manage deployments using Helm or similar tools.
CI/CD & Release Engineering
- Architect maintain and optimize end-to-end CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI Bitbucket Pipelines).
- Automate build test security scanning and deployment processes including blue/green and canary releases.
- Enforce branch-and-release policies code reviews and pipeline governance.
Monitoring Logging & Reliability
- Implement and tune observability and monitoring systems (CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana ELK/EFK Datadog Sentry).
- Define and track SLIs/SLOs error budgets and key operational metrics.
- Participate in on-call rotations incident response and post-incident reviews; maintain runbooks and operational documentation.
Security & Compliance
- Manage secrets and credentials using AWS Secrets Manager HashiCorp Vault or Parameter Store.
- Apply security best practices to networks hosts and containers.
- Conduct regular security assessments and remediate vulnerabilities promptly.
Collaboration & Process Improvement
- Collaborate with development teams to resolve production issues and optimize deployment and feedback processes.
- Document architecture operational procedures and standard operating practices.
- Identify opportunities to improve cost-efficiency performance reliability and workflow processes.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Proven hands-on experience with AWS production workloads including EC2 RDS S3 VPC and IAM.
- Strong expertise in Docker and container orchestration platforms (ECS EKS Kubernetes).
- Proficient in CI/CD tools and pipelines (GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins Bitbucket Pipelines).
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform CloudFormation Pulumi).
- Familiarity with monitoring logging and observability systems (CloudWatch Grafana Prometheus ELK Datadog Sentry).
- Strong security awareness including IAM policies secrets management and vulnerability mitigation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts.
- Demonstrated ownership of infrastructure projects from design through post-incident analysis.
Preferred Competencies
- Experience scaling infrastructure in early-stage or high-growth environments.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes operators and custom resource definitions.
- Networking knowledge including VPC peering Transit Gateways VPNs and service meshes.
- Experience with AWS cost-optimization strategies and tools.
- Prior experience with on-call and incident management responsibilities.
Note: Hybrid Option available for candidates residing in remote locations
Employment Type
Full Time
