Infrastructure Engineer
London OfficeFull-TimeMid-levelSoftware Engineering
Key Responsibilities:
- Hands-on knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) across Compute (Containers & Serverless), Storage, Database and respective network and security concepts and a working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code solutions.
- Understanding of DevOps practices and tools across CI/CD, Observability, Automation within the context of delivering high quality, resilient production applications.
- Leads, with high-agency, the development of major, team-scoped, projects; drives initiatives from ideation to completion; takes responsibility for delivering outcomes.
- Proactively communicates within and outside the team and collaborates effectively cross-functionally; escalates and removes blockers. Participates in team activities as support rotations, TDD discussions, etc.
- Mentors and provides guidance to junior engineers
- Has good product knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure; proactively fills the gaps and clarifies requirements and suggests improvements based on product knowledge and technical insights.
- Writes AI enhanced production-ready code, finding appropriate solutions for complex challenges; leads software design discussions; Participates in code-reviews and provides constructive feedback
- Writes good-quality documentation in order to solicit and receive the best feedback on proposals.
- Ensures that the code delivered is fully tested, including edge cases, creating & maintaining excellent coverage through automated testing. Drives the performance and quality within their scope
- Implements and maintains high-quality logging, monitoring, alerting, and instrumentation. Participates in troubleshooting & resolving incidents, leads the incident management process
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of system infrastructure and DevOps principles; contributes to performance and quality within their scope; applies a security-first mindset
- Promotes engineering best practices across team’s scope.
- Actively pursues improving engineering skills, including but not limited to problem solving, writing readable/testable/efficient code, mastering technology in our stack, and anticipating scaling issues.
- Be highly productive - have a reputation for getting things done quickly and efficiently.
- Requires very little oversight from team leads or managers
- Be able to communicate well with all engineers, regardless of seniority
- Interviews prospective candidates and provides thoughtful evaluations and feedback
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience operating AWS Infrastructure
- Monitoring & Observability with Datadog
- CI/CD: Gitlab, ArgoCD
- IaC: Terraform, Cloudformation (SAM)
- AWS datastores : RDS Aurora MySQL & PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Neptune, S3, Redshift
- Containerization: Docker and EKS & Service Mesh - Istio
