Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Northbeam, a rapidly growing company building a leading marketing intelligence platform, as an Infrastructure Engineer. You will be part of a small team responsible for creating a scalable and reliable data platform. This role involves a wide range of responsibilities, from CI/CD and security to capacity planning and automation. Success requires significant experience, a passion for automation, and strong collaboration skills. You will work with various teams and contribute to the platform's reliability, efficiency, and scalability. The position offers a chance to learn new skills and contribute to a dynamic and growing company.

Requirements

• Have solid hands-on experience with GCP (or another major cloud provider) and a knack for automating infrastructure
• Have supported companies in achieving and maintaining various security certifications, and implemented appropriate security practices and processes
• Be proficient in scripting languages like Python and Bash
• Have experience with IaC tools like Terraform
• Have a track record of resolving on-call issues and staying cool under pressure
• Be comfortable working cross-functionally with engineering, data, product, and management teams
• Be able to write clear, concise technical documentation that other humans can actually follow

Responsibilities

• Work with a small engineering team to create a scaleable, observable, reliable platform for data ingestion, processing, and serving
• Manage CI/CD and dev infrastructure
• Manage security
• Manage DR policies
• Manage SSL cert management and DNS
• Manage Infrastructure as Code
• Manage capacity planning and budgeting
• Manage observability
• Develop scaling plans and automation
• Provide guidance for best use of cloud infrastructure
• Regularly audit cloud spend to identify and act on savings opportunities or misallocated resources; manage long-term compute reservations and monitor utilization; propose and implement improvements
• Team up with engineering teams to evaluate and upgrade cloud server instances. Automate the upgrade rollout, deal with flapping alerts, improve roll-over automation, fix a few broken windows along the way
• Work with engineering to iterate on alerts and dashboards, help standardize and automate monitoring practices
• Automate pre-configured services, networking rules, access grants, CI pipelines
• Hunt down the root causes of noisy alerts and tweak configurations so we only hear from the system when it matters
• Stay on top of patching, pen-testing, training, work to ensure the system is secure and meets the requirements of customers and auditors
• Enhance, maintain, and iterate to keep our infrastructure running smoothly as we grow
• Create technical documentation that’s useful for engineers, understandable for stakeholders, and not soul-crushing to read

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience working in marketing, e-commerce, or ad-tech
• Have basic familiarity with SQL and ETL processes
• Have an understanding of database admin process and automation (user provisioning, backups, cloning and replication, index management, etc)

Benefits

• Equity package
• Generous base salary
• Healthcare Benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• Travel to meet with the team
• Flexible PTO Policy
• 12 Company Paid Holidays