Infrastructure Engineer (Senior)

What we are looking for

Equilibrium was founded with a vision for building a company where innovation, collaboration, machine learning, and data science power all aspects of our algorithmic decision-making. We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who can multitask, demonstrate flexibility, and deal with many different situations at a time, like writing specifications and documentation for the infrastructure and back-end features, analyzing the technology currently being used, and developing plans and processes for improvement and expansion.

As a key member of our Platform group, you will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining the core infrastructure used by Equilibrium’s development teams & empower critical developer workflows. 

What you will do

• Help define, design, develop, and deploy EQ's Internal Developer Platform
• Focus on Kubernetes, apply and advance best practices for DevOps, including Infrastructure As Code, Gitops, and CI/CD Pipelines.
• Participate in project planning meetings to share knowledge of system options, risk, impact, and costs vs. benefits. In addition, communicate operational requirements and development forecasts.
• Perform routine maintenance to ensure the production environment runs smoothly. Develop maintenance requirements and procedures.
• Implement advanced monitoring and alerting
• Share on-call responsibilities with the rest of the Platform group, and the Engineering department as a whole
• Participate in and lead blameless post-mortems to build a culture of continuous improvement

The minimum qualifications you’ll need

• Demonstrated passion for clean energy initiatives and combating climate change.
• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of relevant work experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes or other containerized workload platforms.
• Extensive practical knowledge of AWS cloud technologies, including IAM, EKS, RDS, and EC2.
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code, particularly with Terraform.
• Proficiency in software development, with a preference for Python, emphasizing code readability, reliability, and testing.
• Experience with automated deployment and orchestration tools like CI/CD pipelines, Gitlab / Github, and Docker.
• Strong inclination towards automation, DevOps methodologies, and fostering collaborative environments, incorporating operational excellence and development best practices.
• Ability to seamlessly integrate into cross-functional teams and adapt to evolving work methodologies.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies or a willingness to learn and apply them effectively.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Nice to have additional skills

• Experience managing Postgres, Snowflake, or Databricks at scale.