Infrastructure Engineers help clients build and evolve systems that client organizations use to deliver and run software. They are comfortable working within teams of people with diverse roles and levels of experience to find solutions that meet the needs of the organization. They combine technical expertise and understanding with consideration of different situational needs. They champion technical quality and effective ways of working as a means to better outcomes for clients, rather than an end in themselves. They help clients to understand agile ways of working and DevOps as a mindset for collaboration.
We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with AWS experience in cloud security and modern cloud architectures, alongside proficiency in IaC, CI/CD, and scripting.
Job responsibilities
- You will provide expertise and guidance in the areas of DevOps, cloud, platform and infrastructure engineering, specifically with AWS, AWS VPC Network Security, Amazon EC2, and API and service design, both internally and in client sites.
- You will explore the client’s needs, applying stakeholder management and effective communication to collaborate on building a technical roadmap and impactful solution that will support their ambitious business goals.
- You will ensure and build the controls and processes for continuous delivery and evolution of infrastructure and applications using Github Actions, Terraform, CloudFormation, and Python, driving automation through all stages of the process.
- You will establish trusting and thoughtful partnerships with a client’s engineering leadership, leveraging your advanced/fluent English skills to work seamlessly with American clients.
- You will work within teams to launch projects through hands-on implementation, evaluate existing infrastructure and drive improvements.
- You will help shape and build Thoughtworks’ cloud and infrastructure practice through collaboration with other practitioners, business development, marketing and capabilities development teams.
- You will take a proactive role in monitoring and ensuring that technical expectations of deliverables are consistently met on projects.
- You will adjust and suggest innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies.
Job qualifications
Technical Skills
- You have a deep understanding of cloud and virtualization platforms, with hands-on experience in AWS, AWS Lambda, AWS S3, Amazon EC2, Python, and Terraform.
- You have an understanding of security concerns, threats, and approaches for dealing with them, including AWS VPC Network Security, IAM Roles Anywhere (AWS), Linux and container hardening, infrastructure platform vulnerabilities, secrets management, and software supply chain security.
- You have experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools like Github Actions and CloudFormation across different tech stacks, as well as an understanding of API and service design.
- You have advanced/fluent English communication skills, allowing you to articulate technical concepts and collaborate effectively with US-based client teams.
- You can contribute to the design and implementation of enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms and can administer application servers, web servers and databases.
- You have experience working with software delivery teams, and understand DevOps philosophies, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code and how to apply them to your work.
- You have a history of working with at least one IaaS cloud platform, and two or more application runtime platforms including physical servers, virtual servers, container clusters, serverless and databases.
- You can write scripts using at least one scripting language and are comfortable building one or more of: Linux servers, Windows servers, or container clusters.
- You’ve previously worked with monitoring systems for availability, performance or security.
- Bonus points if you have experience with unit testing and automated testing tools, stress and performance testing.
Professional Skills
- You possess effective communication and stakeholder management skills, genuinely enjoying interacting with teammates from across the business and having a knack for communicating technical concepts to nontechnical audiences.
- You love creating robust, scalable, flexible and relevant solutions that help transform businesses and industries.
- You’re comfortable partnering directly with infrastructure technicians, support and network analysts, security analysts, system administrators and/or IT managers to design technical strategies while simultaneously collaborating with senior IT groups in an advisory capacity.
- You adapt effortlessly to uncertainty, embrace change, and confidently make decisions with limited information to achieve positive outcomes.
Other things to know
Learning & Development
There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.
About Thoughtworks
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