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 thatβs 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