Infrastructure and Operations Engineer

Summary

Join Community Tech Alliance (CTA) as an Infrastructure Engineer and play a pivotal role in modernizing a critical data system for a key progressive organization. This ground-floor opportunity allows you to shape a high-impact project from the outset, utilizing modern data technologies and DevOps practices. You will lead operations, collaborating with the engineering team to develop scalable, secure, and reliable solutions. Partnering with technical leadership and the client, you'll ensure observability, reliability, security, and resilience in a greenfield environment. CTA offers a supportive, mission-driven environment and the chance to contribute to transformative solutions within the progressive ecosystem. The role involves working with various technologies within the Google Cloud Platform.

Requirements

• Have experience working with cloud-based infrastructure projects with multiple engineers or contributors
• Have experience working in or administering a popular data warehouse, like Redshift, Vertica, BigQuery, or Snowflake

Responsibilities

• Work to solve pressing infrastructure challenges, keeping in mind the productivity of engineers and customers
• Have a high level of confidence when making changes with complex networking and IAM environments
• Deliver a “secure by default” experience for our client
• Lead operations work, partnering with our engineering team to find scalable, repeatable and secure solutions to complex technical challenges
• Partner closely with technical leadership and the client to ensure we implement observability, reliability, security, and resiliency in a greenfield environment
• Help us through the occasional outage and help us understand how always to improve detection and resilience
• Always be thinking about tooling to improve the developer experience
• Be considering how to communicate infrastructure performance, status and cost

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Python, SQL, and Docker in Google Compute Engine or Kubernetes Engine
• Experience with Pulumi, Puppet, HashiCorp Terraform and open-source build and testing tooling
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with Windmill, Rundeck and other cloud-hosted tools

Benefits

Salary is between $150/yr and $150/yr, commensurate with experience