Mercury is hiring a
Senior Infrastructure Engineer in United States

Summary

The job is for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Mercury, a financial technology company. The role involves managing and scaling the cloud infrastructure using various tools and technologies, leading key infrastructure projects, improving monitoring and alerting frameworks, and ensuring compliance in regulated environments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with AWS
• 3+ years of experience managing large-scale Terraform implementations, including the setup and maintenance of Terraform CI/CD pipelines
• 3+ years of experience using configuration management tools such as Nix/Ansible, maintaining consistent and automated system configurations across multiple environments
• Demonstrated ability in technical writing, with at least 3 years of experience creating detailed technical documentation, RFCs, and tech specs that clearly communicate complex ideas

Responsibilities

• Build and manage robust cloud environments using AWS services like EC2, RDS, IAM, Networking, Opensearch, and ECS
• Leverage Terraform for infrastructure as code to efficiently manage and provision Mercury's cloud resources
• Use Nix to create reproducible and declarative configurations across systems
• Employ monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Opensearch, and OpenTelemetry to maintain high availability and monitor system health
• Manage code and automate deployments using GitHub & GitHub Actions
• Take charge of our cloud architecture by migrating services to Docker, separating production and staging environments, and enhancing system resilience
• Advance our monitoring and alerting frameworks to minimize direct system access and improve operational efficiency
• Lead key infrastructure projects, break-down complex initiatives, and define our infrastructure strategy through detailed RFCs and technical specifications

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 years of experience leading infrastructure projects in regulated environments such as HITRUST or SOC2
• Extensive experience, ideally 3 years or more, with observability and monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity ranges within the SaaS and fintech industry