Infrastructure Engineer

Ostium Labs • New York, NY

9d • Onsite

About The Position

Ostium is looking for a senior-level infrastructure engineer to spearhead their ambitious efforts on the infrastructure side. They are building a state-of-the-art infrastructure layer that will allow engineers to self-serve 90% of their infrastructure needs. This will allow the engineer to focus on higher-level projects and help the company achieve ambitious goals. This is an on-site position based in their New York office.

Requirements

• Core infrastructure fundamentals (security, networking, access control, etc).
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and Kubernetes best practices.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, ArgoCD, GitHub Action, Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Evangelist of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experienced with CICD pipelines and building dynamic releases systems.
• Security Minded - Always looking to decrease security attack vectors.
• AI Power Users - Leverages AI effectively, validates outputs, and builds guardrails.
• Solution-Oriented - Ensures developers can move as fast as possible by addressing their requests and needs.
• Prioritize And Act - Takes stock of what's needed, what will deliver the most value, and proposes own work and path forward.
• Humble and Willing to Learn - Willing to learn from quants, engineers, the ops team, and everyone at the company.
• Winner - Cares about the team winning and will do whatever it takes.
• Disagree and Commit - Fully supports decisions once made, regardless of initial agreement.

Nice To Haves

• Strong understanding of modern data pipelining and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, improve, and optimize a new data pipeline to handle massive scale effectively.
• Use 100% IaC to build, maintain, deploy, and manage applications and services.
• Decrease latency, increase visibility, and find ways to give us an edge (real financial impact on the business). This means both working with app teams + writing application code.
• Lead the company on best practices for infrastructure.
• Empower every single developer at Ostium to self-serve: deploy new applications, request new infrastructure, monitor and alert.
• Constantly thinking like a hacker who wants to take advantage of our system and bring it down. Leveraging AI tools and our existing test suite to coordinate contained attacks on our system.
• Develop and mature an in-hour testing and validation tool for the various parts of our stack locally, enabling developers to run their application in 10 different ways locally and work effectively with multiple agents in parallel.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed