Develop incident-response dashboards and SLO-based alerts, improve logging, metrics, tracing, authentication, and infrastructure observability, benchmark cloud storage, review security and network configurations, optimize costs, build application features, create infrastructure-as-code for AWS, GCP, and Azure, and support IAM needs.
Description
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Develop dashboards to best aid our incident response capabilities
- Develop alerts based on SLOs allowing the team to respond to issues quickly
- Review logging setup to ensure that understanding the product flow is easy for engineers
- Benchmarking cloud disk performance and understand tradeoffs between filesystems
- Reviewing security group and network configurations to ensure the least privilege is being requested
- Build features in the development codebase from time to time
- Update the application code to review logging, metrics, tracing, auth etc.
- Reviewing infrastructure costs and looking for potential savings
- Write public-facing Terraform and Cloudformation for AWS, GCP and Azure
- Work with product development teams to support their IAM needs
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- 4+ years of experience as an engineer working in a cloud environment.
- A curious mindset where you like to be challenged to dive deep when required.
- Proven, hands-on experience with infrastructure as code in production environments (Terraform, Terragrunt, Cloudformation, CDK, ARM-BICEP etc..).
- Some programming experience (Golang or Java preferred).
- Scripting/programming skills with Python/Bash/Csh.
- An innovative approach, with the ability to quickly learn technologies, and implement cutting edge technologies.
- A strong sense of ownership and accountability .
Advantages
- Deep knowledge of snapshotting, volumes and encryption on public clouds.
- Deep knowledge of filesystems.
- Hands on experience with multiple cloud vendors, including cross account IAM and identity federation schemes
- Familiarity with deploying serverless functions with multiple Cloud Vendors
Upwind Security San Francisco, California, USA Office
140 New Montgomery St, San Francisco, California, United States, 94105
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