Senior Cloud Engineer, Handshake

• You are adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles
• You thrive taking projects from inception to completion and are outcome-oriented, measuring business impact
• You act with empathy when partnering with fellow engineers and coworkers, focusing on user experience and simplicity
• You build and maintaining cloud-based architectures in AWS and/or GCP, at scale
• You have expertise with Kubernetes, IaC, observability and modern infrastructure tooling
• You have prior experience with building and maintaining self-service tooling and guardrails
• You have experience in securing Cloud workloads through implementing best practices such as OPA, RBAC, and utilizing Kubernetes security features
• You have experience building or working directly with SRE in areas related to Operational Readiness and Incident Response
• You have Infrastructure networking experience: firewalls, load balancing, DNS, etc
• You are passionate about building simple, yet high-quality infrastructure
• You have experience working in distributed, performant, at-scale backend systems
• You are strong in Operations and have a passion for automation and reducing toil

Desirable

• At Handshake, we are assembling a team of dynamic engineers who are passionate about building high-quality, impactful, self-service platforms
• As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will spearhead the management of our Search Infrastructure platform and Search Data Pipeline, guaranteeing their seamless operation in a scalable cloud environment
• Your expertise will be pivotal in optimizing our platforms for maximum efficiency and reliability, owning our Technical Excellence and SRE programs, ensuring they meet the demands of our growing business while maintaining robust scalability
• You'll play a crucial role in mentoring and developing junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented team culture
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure solutions using industry best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration of infrastructure components and broader application architecture
• Monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud infrastructure performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness
• Automate deployment, configuration, and management tasks using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Spacelift
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior members of the infrastructure team
• Participate in on-call rotations to address infrastructure-related incidents and ensure high availability of our cloud services and the Handshake Platform
• Stay updated on emerging cloud technologies and trends, evaluating their potential impact on existing infrastructure and recommending appropriate adoption strategies
• Design and document infrastructure configurations, procedures, and best practices to facilitate knowledge sharing and maintain operational efficiency
• Lead our Technical Excellence program, increasing observability and measurement of KPIs & SLOs across our platforms
• Implement modern, cloud-native solutions such as service mesh, advanced scaling and deployment strategies, workflow orchestration
• Develop and improve processes to provide self-service and first-class user experience for our engineers
• Be a thought leader, drive innovation by helping to develop team roadmaps aligning with our business goals