Daily Kos · 4 days ago

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Oakland, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

3+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Support and maintain our development, staging and production environments

Maintain our CI/CD pipeline(s)

Create, innovate, and maintain our monitoring and observability platform

Drive performance initiatives around database optimization

Right-size our cloud environment

Collaborate with engineering leadership to manage cloud costs

Work collaboratively with remote teammates

Create runbooks and other documentation

Share knowledge with application engineers and contribute to application code as needed

Act as a contributing member of the on-call team

Own and develop security initiatives as required

Qualification

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KubernetesTerraformAWSSQLDatabase OptimizationMySQLMonitoringObservability DashboardsGrafana LGTM StackInfrastructure Engineering Communication SkillsPersonal InitiativeRubySecurity TestingInfrastructure as CodeProblem-SolvingTeamwork

Required

At least three years of professional experience with Kubernetes and Terraform

Experience with a public cloud environment (ideally AWS)

Experience with SQL and database optimization (ideally MySQL)

Can develop and support in-house monitoring and observability dashboards (Grafana’s LGTM stack)

Ability to thrive as the only infrastructure engineer supporting a small team in a high traffic environment (excellent communication skills and ability to take personal initiative)