Senior Infrastructure Engineer

The work

Some of the Infrastructure Engineer’s responsibilities include:

• Maintaining and updating Glia’s core infrastructure
• Troubleshooting and resolving infrastructure-related issues
• Improving our security posture
• Implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines
• Implementing support for telemetry
• Consulting other teams on infrastructure-related topics
• Working with third-party vendors and service providers.

Infrastructure Engineers report to the team’s Engineering Manager and work closely with the team’s Tech Lead. The team’s work is driven by business goals, with priorities defined in collaboration with the Director of Engineering. All projects within the team’s space are planned, led, and executed by engineers. 

The team’s setup

Team Infrastructure has engineers in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia, our processes are optimized for remote collaboration. We work in the Eastern European time zone (EET/EEST).

Our tech stack

• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes (AWS EKS), Istio, APISIX
• Persistence: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Apache Druid, Snowflake
• Cache: Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
• Event Streaming: Apache Kafka
• Message Broker: RabbitMQ
• Monitoring: DataDog
• CI/CD: Jenkins
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible

Additionally, engineering teams at Glia use:

• Backend: Elixir and Ruby
• Frontend: JavaScript and ReactJS
• Native mobile SDKs: Java and Swift

Requirements

• Experience in building and maintaining reliable and highly available systems
• Experience in working with cloud infrastructure and running containerized applications
• At home with Linux/Unix tools and ecosystem
• Infrastructure-as-Code enthusiast
• Experience in coding that extends beyond scripting
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.