Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Deque Systems Inc • Ann Arbor, MI

52d • Remote

About The Position

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is a key player on the Deque Infrastructure team. They are responsible for architecting, supporting, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, which is hosted primarily in AWS. This includes infrastructure governance, automated resource provisioning, monitoring, and support. They will work closely with security, software, and DevOps Engineering teams to ensure that our infrastructure is current, compliant, secure, resilient and efficient.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience (5-7 years) in DevOps, Site Reliability, Production Engineering, or Systems Administration roles for product-focused (SaaS) organizations
• Strong experience with core AWS services, such as: EC2, RDS, ECS, CloudFormation, S3, Lambda, VPC etc. AWS certifications are a plus
• Strong expertise in Linux server administration - RHEL/CentOS experience preferred
• Strong experience with at least one of the following configuration management tools: Ansible (preferred), Puppet, or Chef
• Strong experience with programming and scripting languages such as Python and Bash
• Experience working with Docker and container orchestration, including AWS Elastic Container Service
• Familiarity with CI/CD and related tools such as: Jenkins, Artifactory, Github, CircleCI, Cloudsmith, Elastic Container Registry
• Strong experience managing multiple monitoring solutions such as Datadog, InfluxDB, Grafana, Nagios, UptimeRobot
• Experience managing web servers (i.e. Nginx), application servers (Java, NodeJS) and RDS databases such as MySQL, PostGres, MS SQL Server
• Experience with security scanning and vulnerability tools and remediation
• Strong experience with AWS networking and security: VPC, Security Groups, VPN, NACL, WAF etc
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure infrastructure is a plus

Responsibilities

• Be a key contributor to the architecture and management of our cloud environments, maintaining integrity, resiliency, and high availability of our SaaS service offerings.
• Manage the provisioning, configuration, and operation of virtual servers (EC2), containerized applications running on Elastic Container Service, and supporting all other related assets and services that support our infrastructure and application environments
• Collaborate with Security Operations and Software Engineering teams to implement, maintain, operate, and support security tools and initiatives, including remediation of detected vulnerabilities both during the development lifecycle and after deployment to live environments
• Collaborate with and support customer-facing teams to ensure customer satisfaction, timely resolution of issues, and delivery of services. This includes monitoring alerts, responding to incidents, and joining troubleshooting calls.
• Contribute to disaster recovery, business continuity, data backup & restoration, and related auditing & verification activities to ensure the integrity and availability of our cloud environments and continuity for our customers
• Application deployment in our cloud environments, both on Linux (EC2) instances and ECS Fargate.
• Coordinate and execute platform/system upgrades and patches as required
• Maintain and improve documentation of systems and processes/procedures to enable cross-team collaboration and knowledge sharing

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees