Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer Platforms Orchestration

Summary

Join Kraken's Core Infrastructure - Platforms Team and play a vital role in managing and enhancing Kraken's engineering platform. The team is responsible for managing and applying best practices to the orchestration platform while providing infrastructure support across Engineering. They are dedicated to creating a secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure platform that facilitates a continuous approach to software development practices. The team focuses on providing a self-service platform for engineers. This role involves extending and automating the container orchestration platform, working with SREs, implementing security best practices, troubleshooting issues, participating in on-call rotations, and improving the developer experience.

Requirements

• Strong background in Linux, Networking, and Distributed Systems
• Significant hands-on experience with Nomad container orchestration platform in a high availability, production environment
• Hands-on experience with other HashiCorp tools, such as Vault and Consul
• Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Extensive experience with AWS Cloud Infrastructure
• Strong security mindset and experience implementing security best practices in a complex environment
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana
• Significant experience with one or more of the following languages: Python, Go, Bash
• Passion for improving processes, products, and the developer experience for engineering teams
• Knowledgeable about continuous integration and delivery best practices
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
• Ability to thrive while working independently and remotely in a team-based environment
• Self-starter, capable of context-switching between various projects, codebases, and concepts

Responsibilities

• Extend and automate the existing container orchestration platform, ensuring its scalability, reliability, and performance
• Work closely with SREs from different teams to reduce their cognitive load related to the orchestration platform
• Implement and maintain security best practices for the orchestration platform, ensuring the security and availability of our systems
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues, as well as provide guidance and support to other team members
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the smooth operation of our critical systems