Senior Cloud Engineer
ashbyhq
Job Description
What You’ll Be Doing
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Building, maintaining, scaling, and hardening AWS infrastructure that supports current and future needs of our platform
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Maintain and improve the security posture of Loopio’s infrastructure in order to protect customer data
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Collaborate closely with InfoSec, Architect and Engineering teams to find the best solution for services on the AWS platform
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Automating manual tasks, allowing the team to continue to focus on moving forward: improving our security posture, evaluating new technologies, and helping launch exciting new features
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Participate in strategic platform and technology decisions, including new technologies, cost-savings strategies, and improved process
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Project based work including software upgrades, centralized logging, automated monitoring, automated configuration management, load testing, exploring alternative tools to incorporate into the environment, etc.
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Mentor and coach others, providing technical guidance and helping build an environment of knowledge-sharing and candid feedback
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Playing a supporting role by joining Incident Response and on-call rotations
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Improve both our incident response by simulating failure scenarios, and disaster recovery processes
✨ What You’ll Bring to the Team
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5+ years of experience in a high-growth agile software development environment
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A focus on automation and reducing toil
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Leadership within the team, expressing candor & curiosity
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Ability to operate independently and collaborate effectively across Engineering teams as well as cross-functionally towards achieving the same goal
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Experience with AWS and AWS services (EC2, RDS, Route 53, VPCs, etc) and Azure
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Strong understanding of Immutable Infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
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Experience with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, etc.)
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Solid understanding of best practices for delivery of cloud-based managed applications at a global scale (e.g. DevOps, SRE, continuous delivery).
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Experience with containerization technology (Docker, ECS, Fargate)
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Passionate about continuous improvement and promoting a culture of feedback driven by data and key metrics.
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Experience building and supporting high-performance / high-availability platforms with a microservices architecture
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Experience with Jenkins (CI/CD pipelines)
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Experience with centralized configuration management tools, such as Chef and Ansible