Senior Engineer - Infrastructure

Summary

Join Istari Digital, a digital engineering software company, as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer. This role is crucial in designing, automating, and managing our AWS cloud infrastructure. You will leverage your expertise in Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes to ensure scalability, reliability, and security. The position requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in infrastructure engineering and a deep understanding of AWS services. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits including 100% company-paid medical/dental/vision premiums, unlimited PTO, and opportunities for professional development. Istari values a collaborative and remote-friendly work environment with occasional in-person gatherings.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; relevant certifications are highly regarded
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in infrastructure engineering
• Terraform and K8
• AWS Cloud Expertise – Deep knowledge of EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFormation
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation
• Container Orchestration – Experience with Kubernetes and Helm for managing containerized applications
• CI/CD Pipelines – Familiarity with tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitLab CI/CD
• Linux & Scripting – Strong skills in Linux administration, plus scripting in Bash, Python, or Go
• Networking & Security – Understanding of VPCs, VPNs, Security Groups, NACLs, TLS, IAM policies
• Observability – Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or Datadog for monitoring & logging
• Incident Response & Troubleshooting – Ability to diagnose and resolve production incidents efficiently

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure for highly available and scalable applications
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and management using Terraform
• Develop and maintain Helm charts for Kubernetes application deployments
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments
• Monitor system health, troubleshoot performance issues, and improve system reliability
• Implement security best practices for cloud infrastructure, including IAM, networking, and encryption
• Collaborate with development teams to improve infrastructure automation and efficiency
• Support and maintain production and staging environments, ensuring uptime and resilience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Service Mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)
• Exposure to Serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, Fargate)
• Experience with multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP)
• Knowledge of cost optimization techniques for cloud infrastructure

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision
• Employee Premiums are 100% Company Paid
• Life Insurance
• Flexible Work Hours
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) with federal government holidays
• Competitive Compensation
• 401k
• Company Stock Options
• Home Office Setup Budget
• Reimbursement for approved trainings and subscriptions
• Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)