The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will architect and optimize infrastructure, manage cloud services, and mentor junior staff while ensuring performance and security.
The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for architecting, developing, and optimizing the infrastructure, network and other components underpinning the various Backlight products. This role requires taking ownership of significant infrastructure development while ensuring scalability, performance, and security. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer collaborates closely with development teams, product managers, and security teams to deliver robust solutions in an agile environment, using GitHub for code and infrastructure as code management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and configure our tools for monitoring and deployment including our CI/CD pipeline tools
- Participate in day to day maintenance of our production, test and staging environments.
- Participate in our backend support to investigate customer issues.
- Make sure our cloud platforms runs smoothly and can be monitored efficiently
- Lead design, development, and maintenance of infrastructure systems using advanced technologies, such as GitOps and Infrastructure-As-Code.
- Ensure high performance and availability of databases (SQL/NoSQL), with proactive optimization.
- Participate in high-level architecture discussions and decision-making to drive project success.
- Balance efficient, maintainable code with effective review and QA processes.
- Manage and maintain version control using Git and GitHub.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues promptly, with minimal impact on operations.
- Stay abreast of emerging devops technologies and best practices, proactively integrating improvements.
- Take part in incident response processes and training exercises.
- Mentor junior team members and contribute to strategic planning sessions.
Required Qualifications:
- Expert on cloud services (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Knowledge in server-side programming languages, particularly Python.
- Experience in database management (SQL/NoSQL).
- Proficient in agile methodologies and experience with version control tools like Git/GitHub.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to development challenges.
- Experience in SaaS product development is highly advantageous.
Work Environment:
- Full-time, 40 hours per week, with remote flexibility if not stated otherwise in the employee contract.
- Compliance with company policies on confidentiality and data protection.
Top Skills
AWS
Docker
Git
Git
GCP
Kubernetes
NoSQL
Python
SQL
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