Infrastructure Engineer, Fieldguide

• You have extensive hands-on experience in constructing complex cloud solutions using multiple AWS services
• You are skilled in provisioning and configuring cloud services using Terraform and the AWS CLI / API
• You have proficiency in designing effective monitoring/alerting and log aggregation solutions using tools like Datadog and AWS CloudWatch (New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, etc.)
• You have a solid understanding of data systems, including both SQL and NoSQL
• You have experience in developing and maintaining software in security and regulatory compliance environments (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA,, etc.)
• You are comfortable in participating in on-call support to ensure 24/7 availability of services
• You have a passion for mentoring and coaching other engineers
• You have excellent communication and organizational skills, capable of managing multiple competing priorities in a rapidly evolving environment

Desirable

• As an Infrastructure Engineer at Fieldguide, you will play a pivotal role in our mission to design, build, and deliver a cutting-edge foundation for our product teams in a dynamic, cloud-based environment
• You'll collaborate closely with our talented product developers to craft and maintain the optimal cloud infrastructure, finding the balance between performance, resilience, and cost-effectiveness
• You'll be at the forefront of emerging technologies, overseeing our production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic approach to system health to ensure top-notch quality, security, and reliability
• Your role will also encompass providing primary operational support and engineering expertise for our distributed software applications across the entire Fieldguide environment
• Design, build, and maintain core platform infrastructure to support scalable, reliable, and secure services across engineering teams
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform to ensure consistent, reliable environments
• Collaborate with software and data engineering teams to provide self-service infrastructure and platform tooling that accelerates development workflows
• Monitor and improve system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency through metrics, logging, and alerting frameworks (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch)
• Ensure infrastructure security and compliance by implementing best practices for identity management, network segmentation, secrets handling, and vulnerability management
• Contribute to incident response and postmortem processes, driving root cause analysis and long-term improvements
• Mentor and collaborate with other engineers, fostering a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous improvement
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning, ensuring high availability and resilience of critical systems
• Document infrastructure design, architecture decisions, and operational procedures for transparency and team enablement