Staff Platform Engineer
REMOTEAbout the Role:We are searching for a Staff Platform Engineer specializing in Infrastructure to join our team. As a key member, you'll lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of our cloud infrastructure. If you have a passion for guiding organizations toward a fully modernized infrastructure (IaC, CI/CD, and DevOps) utilizing advanced HashiCorp tools like Terraform, Nomad, Consul, and Vault, as well as GitOps, this is the role for you. Your pivotal contributions will ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of our systems while spearheading automation and continuous improvement initiatives.Responsibilities:
- Infrastructure Management: Design, implement, and upkeep AWS infrastructure using HashiCorp tools like Terraform, Nomad, Consul, and Vault.
- AWS Architecture: Contribute to the architecture of scalable, reliable, and cost-optimized solutions within AWS.
- Configuration Management: Utilize configuration management tools for consistent infrastructure management.
- Agile Scrum Practice: Employ Agile Scrum methodologies within a Jira environment for efficient project management.
- CI/CD & Source Control: Manage CI/CD pipelines and source code repositories using GitHub Actions and GitHub.
- Implement Datadog Monitoring Solutions: Deploy and manage Datadog monitoring solutions to ensure comprehensive system visibility, including integrations with other tools for enhanced monitoring capabilities.
- Scripting and Automation: Develop automation scripts and tools to streamline infrastructure processes.
- Documentation, Training, and Mentorship: Create and maintain detailed technical documentation for infrastructure and automation processes. Provide hands-on training and ongoing mentorship to junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and ensuring knowledge transfer across the team.
- Technical Leadership: Lead technical initiatives, both for familiar and unfamiliar solutions.
- Continuous Improvement: Evaluate existing processes and infrastructure for optimization, driving improvements to enhance performance and scalability.
Technologies:
- Cloud Infrastructure: AWS
- Infrastructure Management Tools: Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Vault
- Configuration Management: Salt
- Support Applications: Jira, Slack, Google Workspaces
- Application Architecture: Nomad, Vector, LogScale
- CI/CD & Source Control: GitHub Actions, GitHub
- Monitoring Solutions: Datadog
- Scripting and Automation: Python, Shell
- Other AWS Services: EC2, Lambda, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Security Hub
Required Knowledge & Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
- 10+ years of total relevant experience, including 5+ years of experience with AWS infrastructure management and automation
- In-depth knowledge of AWS services and architecture, including but not limited to EC2, Lambda, VPC, Transit Gateway, IAM, S3, and RDS.
- Hands-on experience with HashiCorp tools, particularly Terraform, Nomad, Consul, and Vault, for infrastructure management and automation.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging solutions such as Datadog.
- Experience with Docker and Container based architectures.
- Strong scripting and automation skills, with expertise in Python and preferably Shell or similar languages.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts and security best practices in cloud environments.
Additional Skills and Qualifications:
- Experience with incident response, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting in complex distributed systems.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrated capacity to manage workload independently, prioritize tasks effectively, and meet deadlines without supervision.
- Ability to learn new products and solutions and champion their adoption.
- Microsoft Azure Experience
- Experience in the Network Security / Log Analysis Industry (Vector, LogScale)
- Experience running a Cloud Center of Excellence, and AWS Security Services (Inspector / Security Hub / Guard Duty)
- Familiarity with open source network security tools (Suricata, Zeek, Stenographer)
Who we are:At Pondurance we embrace, educate, and protect people by helping make our world a better and safer place. We believe in inviting good people into our company who are driven to become great! Every person at Pondurance is encouraged to focus and grow in their individual areas of interest, passion, and career path. We have accessible leaders as Mentors who believe “None of us are as smart as all of us” (R. Pelletier). We believe everyone has the freedom to be themselves, especially at work and so we embrace, support, and celebrate each other.
Each one of us influences our company’s direction through speaking up, you have a voiceand we want you to use it.Do you want to be a part of something different? Do you want to influence real change? Do you want to be part of the solution? Then join us in redefining the security and cyber risk landscape.What We Offer: The opportunity to apply your expertise, take on new challenges, and help customers address their biggest security objectives. An inclusive culture of teamwork that embraces the diversity of our people and communities in which we work.Some of the corporate benefits (there are more) for full-time employees include:
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, FSA, HSA, life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) Plan.
- Time off: PTO, sick, holiday, & parental leave details are available
- Money: We provide competitive compensation packages based on the market and your overall credentials.
Although this is a remote role, if you live close by, you’ll have access to our office locations: McLean, VA or Indianapolis, IN.To promote a healthy and safe work community we require background and drug screenings as part of our hiring process. Details of our process will be provided upon request. We are an equal opportunity employer focused on celebrating diversity and inclusion. We believe that each individual should be treated equally without regard to race, color, identity, national origin, protected veteran status, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
