Avant - Chicago, IL
posted 1 day ago
Full-time - Mid Level
Remote - Chicago, IL
Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
About the position
The Infrastructure team is responsible for the platform, tools, and infrastructure supporting Avant's customer-facing products. As a team member, you will be developing tools to create and maintain cloud infrastructure, automate the management of complex service-oriented applications, and develop frameworks to ensure the Avant platform's stability and scalability.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy infrastructure solutions using modern cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform).
- Implement automation and orchestration tools to streamline provisioning, deployment, and management of infrastructure and services.
- Collaborate with software engineering teams to design scalable and resilient architectures for applications/services.
- Monitor and troubleshoot platform performance issues, ensuring high availability and optimal resource utilization.
- Continuously optimize infrastructure and processes to improve reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
- Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in platform engineering, incorporating new technologies and methodologies as appropriate.
Requirements
- Strong development experience in a modern programming language: E.g., Python, Ruby, Go, or Bash.
- Proven experience in platform engineering or a related role, with a strong understanding of cloud computing concepts and technologies.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience creating and working with containers and leveraging container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and technologies such as Karpenter, KEDA.
- Experience building and managing highly available public cloud infrastructure and services.
- Experience with standard infrastructure-as-code provisioning and configuration management tools.
- Experience supporting relational and non-relational databases, messages busses, caching services, and other data persistence tools.
- Experience developing CI/CD workflows, GitHub Actions.
- Experience with migrating services and workflows to new platforms.
- Familiarity with standard monitoring, logging, and observability platforms, we use Datadog, Sentry.
- Familiarity with Amazon Web Services, Terraform, Helm, Vault, Ansible, Spacelift.
- Experience with Databricks for data engineering and analytics tasks.
- Familiarity with Airflow for orchestrating complex data workflows.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, security best practices, and containerization technologies.
Benefits
- Choice of great Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Plan options
- 401(k) Match
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Flexible Work Environment
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
- Lunch Allowance (Fooda) and In-office Snacks
- WFH Stipends for our Remote Employees
- Access to LinkedIn Learning for Professional Development
- No Meeting Wednesdays - (a.k.a. planned time to Get Sh!t Done)
- Summer Fridays
- Fun In-Office and Virtual Social Events
- And who doesn't love the swag
