Remote Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Software Engineer focusing on Infrastructure at Bastion. The role involves building and maintaining major features, working closely with product and engineering teams, and managing cloud infrastructure systems. The ideal candidate has expertise in managing production cloud environments, programming and implementing backend & data management systems, and leading teams and projects.

Requirements

• Expertise in managing a production cloud environment with demanding up-time, performance, and security requirements (experience as SRE, infrastructure engineer, platform engineer, software engineer)
• Strong experience in programming and implementation of backend & data management systems
• Experience adopting and employing open-source, home-grown, and commercial technology products as appropriate to enable product initiatives
• Strong familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes
• Experience with leading teams and projects
• Comfort working with leadership to allocate and prioritize engineering energy in support of infrastructure excellence in a real-world resource-constrained environment

Responsibilities

• Own the cloud infrastructure systems from design and implementation to deployment and maintenance
• Educate the platform software engineering team on reliability best practices and collaborate to evolve the software engineering process to accommodate reliability principles
• Provide service outage escalation response alongside software engineers
• Manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions
• Manage and build core services and infrastructure across the entire engineering organization
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines, with an emphasis on improving engineering productivity and deployment safety and velocity

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and networking in a production context
• Experience building and/or using low-latency cross-region databases
• Experience with Terraform and/or Pulumi
• Experience with Kafka, Redis, and Postgres
• Experience with secure enclaves (AWS Nitro, HSMs, etc)
• Experience with Kubernetes Operators, Helm, ArgoCD, and/or Flux
• Experience with cloud providers beyond AWS (Azure, GCP, etc.)
• Expertise in cloud network security