Senior Infrastructure Engineer

I'm partnered with a client whose mission is to empower everyone with the data and AI skills essential for 21st-century success. By providing practical, engaging learning experiences,
They equip learners and organizations of all sizes to harness the power of data and AI. As a trusted partner to over
17 million learners
and
6,000+ companies , including 80% of the Fortune 1000, and is leading the charge in addressing the critical data and AI skills shortage.
The infrastructure team, which is part of the Platform Engineering department, is a T-shaped cross functional team that looks after CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure (deployed on AWS), logging, monitoring and security. The infrastructure team also looks after the data platform (deployed on GCP) as we have data engineers embedded in our cross functional infrastructure team.
To facilitate this we have a highly automated CI/CD pipeline based on CircleCI and Spotify Backstage (internal engineering portal) which allows developers to ship what they build, increasing deployment speed and ownership and visibility. The infrastructure team aims to enhance developer productivity, scalability, availability and security by providing feedback cycles for teams so they follow a model of continuous improvement. In this role you will be responsible for adding new features to our internal engineering portal that will involve making code changes to Spotify Backstage.
Responsibilities:
Enable development teams to deploy their applications as seamlessly as possible.
Advise development teams on infrastructure requirements for new courses and projects.
Manage company-wide shared resources that support the microservice architecture.
Build and maintain internal services to support development operations.
Prioritize self-service solutions and automation for deployment, infrastructure provisioning, cost control, and security standards.
Support other teams in using infrastructure services, avoiding acting as a bottleneck.
Play a key role in planning and implementing future infrastructure improvements.
Own and manage day-to-day infrastructure responsibilities independently.
Deploy and manage all the Platform workloads on EKS (Kubernetes) using Istio service mesh and self-service deployment pipelines.
Provision all infrastructure using Terraform.
Manage the Kong API Gateway to allow external ingress traffic into the DataCamp Platform.
Support the Data Platform, which is deployed on BigQuery, with data pipeline jobs managed by Airflow.
Qualifications:
Has 2+ years of administering/maintaining infrastructure related tools (AWS, Docker, K8s)
Has 2+ years of development experience (TypeScript, Python)
Has 2+ years experience advising on/implementing deployment pipelines (CI/CD)
Has 2+ years of security tooling experience (vulnerability scanning tooling)
You have experience with Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, etc)
Has excellent oral and written communication skills
Is interested in understanding and scaling complex systems
Is interested in monitoring and self healing systems
Is highly organized with a flexible, can-do attitude and a willingness/aptitude for learning
Improves the team with code reviews, technical discussions and documentation
Is able to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals
It's a plus if:
You have an understanding of data engineering principles
You have experience with API-gateways or service meshes (Kong, Istio, etc)
You are passionate about data science and education
Exciting challenges: Face new technical challenges daily, keeping your work engaging and rewarding.
Salary up to €110,000.
Competitive compensation: We offer a competitive salary with attractive benefits.
Flexibility: Benefit from flexible working hours because the future is flexible
Continuous learning: Access a yearly learning budget for conferences & training to support your professional growth.
Global retreats: Participate in international company retreats, fostering a global team spirit.
Equipment: Yearly refreshment of your IT Equipment budget for your home working setup.
Amazing team: Collaborate with a truly exceptional team—seriously, we're awesome
If interested get in touch: daniel.zelnis@vividresourcing.com