Handshakes is an award-winning DataTech company that empowers clients to make informed decisions by providing valuable insights derived from reliable data sources. Leveraging cutting-edge machine learning technology, we analyze and offer corporate data from both public and private domains. Our Handshakes App is recognized for fusing these data sources to deliver strategic business intelligence to our clientele.
At Handshakes, we are committed to delivering innovative and robust cloud-based solutions that drive our business forward. We are looking for a skilled Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our tech team. In this role, you will play a key part in designing, deploying, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure solutions across AWS, while ensuring best practices for cost management, governance, and security.
Responsibilities:
- Cloud Infrastructure Management: Design, implement, and manage cloud environments on AWS, including core services like EC2, S3, RDS, ECS, Fargate, and serverless technologies like AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and Step Functions.
- Infrastructure Automation: Use CDKTF (Cloud Development Kit for Terraform) to define and automate cloud infrastructure as code, ensuring repeatable and scalable infrastructure setups.
- CI/CD Pipelines: Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous delivery and improving deployment speed and reliability.
- Cost Optimization: Regularly monitor cloud expenditures using AWS Cost Explorer and recommend best practices for efficient cloud resource usage.
- Developer Enablement: Work with developers to understand their pain points and propose tools, workflows, or changes that streamline the adoption of cloud technologies and improve their overall experience.
- Monitoring & Observability: Implement monitoring and alerting strategies with Datadog, focusing on both infrastructure health and application performance to help teams proactively address issues.
- Infrastructure Governance: Ensure that infrastructure changes are governed correctly across all environments, maintaining compliance and security best practices.
- Modernization: Lead efforts to modernize legacy infrastructure by designing and implementing cloud-native, serverless or containerized architectures, improving scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Code Review & Collaboration: Review and approve Pull Requests for infrastructure code, ensuring that best practices and quality standards are maintained.
Required Skills & Experience:
- AWS Expertise: 3-5 years of hands-on experience with AWS services including compute, network and storage
- Serverless Architecture: Strong experience with serverless technologies like AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and Step Functions for building scalable and efficient solutions.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with CDKTF or other tools like Terraform for automating infrastructure provisioning.
- CI/CD Pipelines: Expertise in building, managing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
- Cost Management: Ability to monitor and optimize cloud costs, including proposing and implementing recommendations.
- Developer Enablement: Experience understanding and identifying tools or processes that improve the developer experience, helping teams adopt best practices and new technologies effectively.
- Monitoring with Datadog: Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies with Datadog (or other similar observability tools) for proactive performance management and issue resolution.
- Code Quality: Comfortable reviewing and approving Pull Requests, ensuring that infrastructure code meets quality standards.
- Independent Worker: Ability to work autonomously, manage your own projects, and take ownership of your tasks.
- Security Mindset: Understand key security concepts including maintaining confidentiality, integrity and availability of technologies and systems, and securing CI/CD pipelines
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience with Kubernetes and EKS.
- Knowledge of cloud security best practices.
- Familiarity with container orchestration and DevOps practices.
- Experience with other monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) in addition to Datadog.
Why Join Us:
- Work on cutting-edge cloud technologies and solutions.
- Be part of a dynamic, innovative, and growth-focused engineering team.
- Enjoy flexibility and the opportunity to lead impactful projects.
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and a collaborative work environment.
If you're passionate about cloud infrastructure and have the skills to back it up, we'd love to hear from you!
