Axios

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Axios

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $101,000 - $191,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudGoGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPython

About the role

  • Architect and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure and security solutions.
  • Oversee deployment and optimization of cloud-based systems for security, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Lead and perform day-to-day infrastructure and cloud security tasks, implement controls, identify vulnerabilities, and collaborate on remediation efforts.
  • Contribute to and help shape the long-term security roadmap.
  • Develop and maintain high-quality automation frameworks that streamline configuration and deployment processes.
  • Enhance monitoring systems, implement best practices, and improve insight into service performance, availability, and reliability.
  • Design robust, efficient infrastructure solutions that balance technical and business requirements.
  • Coach less-experienced engineers on infrastructure best practices, coding standards, and emerging technologies.
  • Partner with product, data, and QE teams to deliver end-to-end infrastructure enhancements.
  • Spend approximately 50% of time on proactive security initiatives, automated vulnerability scans, controls implementation, remediation, and roadmap contributions.
  • Architect, deploy, and optimize AWS environments to meet defined performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency targets.
  • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines that deliver consistent, repeatable deployments.
  • Evaluate, pilot, and integrate new infrastructure tools and methodologies that measurably improve performance, security, and cost efficiency.
  • Define and implement monitoring, alerting, and SLOs in collaboration with engineering teams.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver major infrastructure enhancements that directly support business goals.

Requirements

  • Deep knowledge of cloud, infrastructure, and platform security best practices, including IAM, encryption, secrets management, threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, and compliance.
  • Proven expertise with AWS services, including EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, IAM, S3, and SecretsManager.
  • Extensive experience with Kubernetes, including cluster provisioning, scaling, and management.
  • Hands-on proficiency in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
  • Strong scripting or programming skills in Go, Python, or Bash for building and maintaining infrastructure tooling.
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
  • Demonstrated leadership in guiding teams, providing technical direction, and aligning projects with organizational goals.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive cross-functional solutions.