Staff Infrastructure Engineer (OpenTofu)

Quantifind•Palo Alto, CA

12h•$195,000 - $220,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a critical role in managing the infrastructure for Quantifind’s applications and services. Our stack includes back-end services and infrastructure, machine learning modules surfaced through REST APIs, and React-based front-end web applications. As a member of our DevOps Team, you will have a big impact on how we build, automate, and scale our technology and processes. You will work closely with DevOps engineers, solving problems, automating deployments, and championing best practices. Our technology includes: Ubuntu, Ganeti, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, git, Hadoop, Nagios, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, and in-house Scala and NodeJS applications. We deploy to our own data centers and to AWS. Quantifind’s development team is centered in Palo Alto, California, and we have technology hubs in Atlanta, Georgia, and in Washington, D.C. Quantifind is currently using a hybrid mix of working from home and in the office.

Requirements

US Citizenship required
Comfortable with operating under FedRAMP, FISMA, IL4/5 in a highly regulated environment
8+ years of professional industry experience, including 2+ years at a SaaS startup
2+ years of software engineering experience
Deep background with using Terraform/OpenTofu with a DRY methodology
Very comfortable in AWS, AWS Govcloud experience is a plus
Understanding of containerization and orchestration under Kubernetes / EKS is essential
Excellent communication, presentation and collaborative problem-solving skills
Good technical documentation ability
Experience and comfort with Agile software development best practices
Ability to work across teams with different priorities, which will include the need to be able to articulate blockers and dependencies
Familiarity with programmatically setting up and configuring firewall instances (ex: Palo Alto)
Familiarity with RDMBS systems, we are a Postgres shop
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

Nice To Haves

Preference for observability, operational performance with an AWS native services focus

Responsibilities

Play a critical role in managing the infrastructure for Quantifind’s applications and services.
Have a big impact on how we build, automate, and scale our technology and processes.
Work closely with DevOps engineers, solving problems, automating deployments, and championing best practices.