Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Infrastructure department at Flatfile handles ongoing construction and maintenance of our internal cloud infrastructure as well as deployment of our software into client’s infrastructure (our On Premise product). Everything that Flatfile does with customers runs through infrastructure, whether ours or theirs. 

The Infrastructure Software Engineer role will own building and maintaining our infrastructure in a way that makes continuous deployment and management easy while also being built in a way that it can be easily extracted for on-premise customers. Most of your day will be spent in our infrastructure but you will be expected to assist if not lead on-premise customer deployments.

• Design, implement, and continuously improve large components of Flatfile’s infrastructure. 
• Fully understand the inner workings of our infrastructure and be able to rebuild it without breaking a sweat.
• Proactively monitor any ongoing or potential infrastructure issues affecting Flatfile and our customer base.
• Collaborate with engineering, leadership, and other cross-functional teams to meet business goals. 
• Continually strive for uptime and other KPIs.
• Automate manual tasks and reduce technical debt.
• Lead on-premise deployments for our customers who demand a white-glove service level. You should know the answers to most if not all questions they can ask (there’s not that many).
• Be a resource to our on-premise customers whenever they need one.

• 2+ years of experience AWS, as well as at least half of these additional products: Elasticache Redis, EKS, S3, MSK, RDS
• 2+ years of Kubernetes experience, a basic understanding of pods, ingresses, and deployments is a requirement. Right now our Kubernetes deployments are very vanilla but are growing more complex every week. 
• 2+ years of Linux experience
• 1+ years of Terraform and HCL experience
• On-call experience

• Replicated on-premise deployment solution
• Redis
• PostgreSQLAdvanced
• Kubernetes topics, such as multi-region deploys
• Github actions experience