Role Overview
Build and operate enterprise-grade production infrastructure for complex technology and AI initiatives. This role focuses on improving the reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and operational efficiency of distributed systems while working hands-on with Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog, and modern cloud-native tooling.
Key Responsibilities- Build, operate, and continuously improve highly available, scalable production infrastructure.
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes-based production environments.
- Design and maintain cloud infrastructure, primarily on AWS.
- Strengthen system reliability, availability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Build and maintain infrastructure and application observability using Datadog or comparable platforms.
- Investigate production incidents, conduct root-cause analysis, and deliver durable fixes.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and overall production visibility.
- Develop automation and internal tools that reduce manual operational work.
- Partner with software engineering teams on deployments, infrastructure, and production reliability.
- Contribute to infrastructure architecture and technical decisions for complex distributed systems.
- Professional experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Production Engineering.
- Hands-on experience operating complex, enterprise-grade production systems.
- Strong production experience with Kubernetes, AWS, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability platforms.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent technologies.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, networking, containers, Linux, and cloud architecture.
- Experience building or maintaining CI/CD and production deployment infrastructure.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and incident-response capabilities.
- Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language, such as Python, Go, or Bash.
- Operating Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure at significant production scale.
- Supporting high-traffic or mission-critical applications.
- Building infrastructure or platform tooling used by large engineering organizations.
- Owning production reliability, on-call operations, incident response, or capacity planning.
- Improving SLOs, SLIs, observability, deployment reliability, infrastructure performance, or operational efficiency.
- Remote, full-time hourly engagement.
- Must be able to commit to full-time work.
$200 per hour.
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