Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About the position

Scythe is looking for a highly knowledgeable and experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our team. The desired candidate will be instrumental in designing, implementing, and improving the cloud infrastructure used at Scythe. You'll work in concert with teammates from across the company to build a rich understanding of product needs and bring those ideas to life. We expect you to be broadly experienced to be able to 'see around corners', to thrive in a fast-paced, self-managed engineering environment, and to be a collaborative, low-ego teammate who helps Scythe realize its big mission.

Responsibilities

• Provision AWS assets and resources (S3 buckets, IAM policies, clusters, etc) using Terraform
• Implement security policies and organize AWS IAM as our company grows
• Monitor cloud infrastructure performance, reliability, and budget proactively
• Be a source of expertise regarding best practices related to cloud infrastructure for CI, Customer Web, and Data Platform teams
• Assess and implement any needed encryption on assets in the cloud
• Assist teammates with third-party integration needs

Requirements

• Standing up and managing container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes for managing containerized applications at scale
• Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible for provisioning and managing cloud resources
• Scripting languages such as Python and Bash for automating tasks and infrastructure management
• CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or ArgoCD for automating software delivery processes
• Networking principles including TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, Load Balancing, and Firewall configuration in cloud environments
• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker
• Security fundamentals and implementing secure cloud infrastructure

Nice-to-haves

• Provisioned and managed cloud-based database services such as Amazon RDS, Azure SQL Database, or Google Cloud SQL, as well as NoSQL databases like DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, or Bigtable

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity compensation
• Fully-sponsored medical, vision, and dental insurance, including 75% funded dependent coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan (non-matching today)
• Flexible paid time-off and hybrid work
• Highly collaborative learning culture where personal freedom, growth, and responsibility are valued
• An opportunity to have an incredible positive impact on the world