Infrastructure Lead

Role & responsibilities

Job Description

• Designing/Implementing container orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Ensuring that container orchestration platform (Kubernetes) is regularly maintained and released to production without downtime.
• Designing, creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation of best practices for all implemented system configurations.
• Consulting experience dealing with a customers security, networking, infrastructure and other teams for software deployed in their cloud/data center or integrated with it.
• Managing a team of infrastructure engineers to ensure they are constantly up to date with the technology being used and processes/policies.
• Proactively and independently managing infrastructure to ensure all software is using a supported version
• Supporting audits on infrastructure from a security and monitoring perspective, for example SOC2 or ISO 27001.
• Designing and implementing infrastructure in at least 2 different cloud vendors, with the ability to understand cost-saving measures in each.

Preferred candidate profile

• At least 10 years experience working with at least 2 of AWS, Azure or Google cloud
• At least 2 years working in a VMWare environment (ability to create new OVA/OVF images
• Experience overseeing a team of infrastructure engineers
• Capable to automate tasks with a scripting language such as python or even shell scripting
• Minimum 7 years work experience in a medium to large scale enterprise. Extensive knowledge with the following disciplines:
• Good experience in deploying container technologies like Docker.
• Hands-on experience with deploying Kubernetes in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Experience in building and supporting Infrastructure as Code
• Networking components and concepts (multiple subnets, availability zones, NAT, load balancers, etc.)
• Linux Systems Administration (medium-large scale systems)
• Automation Building, testing, & deploying on Linux operating system using industry standard tools. (Bamboo, Cucumber, Jenkins, etc).
• Familiar with source control management and how they are used in delivery (Git/BitBucket, GitOps)
• Experienced with security and encryption protocols.
• Familiarity with Web Application Firewall rules and capabilities
• Comfort with facilitating collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional teams
• Ability to work and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
• High level of customer responsiveness, excellent documentation and communication skills and attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Terraform experience in writing Infrastructure as code
• Hashicorp Vault or Kubernetes secrets implementation experience
• Experience deploying and tuning any or all the following:
• Apache Kafka
• Cassandra
• Elasticsearch
• Education or experience equivalent to a bachelors degree in computer science or engineering
• Certificated Kubernetes Administrator
• Solid understanding of microservices architectures
• Information Systems Security certification
• Structured Query Language (SQL) capabilities