Senior Infrastructure Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the design and execution of scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, supporting both Candidly's AI and SaaS offerings.

• Drive the architectural vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives while identifying risks before they escalate into issues.

• Own and enforce best practices for infrastructure as code (IaC), continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and automated deployments.

• Take charge of automating and expediting SDLC processes — pinpointing bottlenecks in our build and delivery pipeline, and designing solutions that enhance the overall pipeline efficiency, whether through AI-assisted tools or traditional automation methods.

• Act as a subject matter expert in cloud architecture, containerization, and observability.

• Lead incident response efforts and post-mortems with an emphasis on systemic improvements rather than just immediate fixes.

• Proactively identify and address gaps before they become compounded issues.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5–7+ years of practical experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

• Expert-level knowledge of AWS services: EC2, ELB, ASG, RDS, S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation, CDK, and Route 53.

• Strong understanding of Linux administration and networking principles (VPNs, VPC peering, NAT, DNS, firewalls).

• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for container orchestration at scale using CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English — capable of articulating trade-offs to both engineers and stakeholders.

• Comfortable working remotely and independently.

• Moderate-level experience with Azure, with the ability to operate across multi-cloud and multi-region environments.

• Expertise in CI/CD pipeline management (AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI, or similar tools).

• Strong skills in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, and Ansible.

• Comprehensive understanding of monitoring and logging systems and strategies (AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, Azure Monitor).

• Hands-on experience with high-availability architectures and auto-scaling methodologies.

• Solid understanding of AWS security best practices: IAM, encryption, Secrets Manager, and security auditing.

• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, Redshift).

• Familiarity with serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, Fargate).

• Knowledge of database replication strategies.

• Experience in a high-growth, regulated sector (Fintech), specifically in architecting and scaling infrastructure to ensure reliability and compliance amid rapid user and transaction growth.

• Proven technical leadership skills, including enhancements in infrastructure processes.

• AWS Professional-level certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional).

• Knowledge of event-driven architectures (SNS, SQS, EventBridge).

• Experience with cost optimization strategies for AWS environments.

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC, NIST, ISO, CCPA, GDPR).

• Experience integrating AWS services with third-party tools for enhanced observability and security.

• Experience with both single-tenant and multi-tenant architectures, as well as client on-premises deployment systems.

• Familiarity with scalable and reproducible ML pipelines, tools, and frameworks (Kubeflow, MLflow, Amazon SageMaker).

• Data engineering experience involving large-scale data processing and storage.

• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence, including best practices for ticket management and KPI tracking.

🏝️ Benefits

• Candidly's job offers are contingent upon the successful completion of our employment screening process (which may include a review of past employment and educational credentials, background checks, and/or credit checks & fingerprints).

• Candidly is committed to creating an environment where every employee can thrive. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disabilities, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law. All employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.