Senior Infrastructure Architect
Introduction
You are an experienced tech professional and are passionate about site reliability engineering, cloud computing and operational excellence. You will be part of our Data Engineering Team and bring an energetic, creative approach to work. Are you convinced that you fit the profile and that a fast-paced, high growth working environment would fit your skills, contact us!
Job description
- Your main objective will be to lead Operations of the Sentiance Platform.
- You facilitate release management of new components.
- You implement logging, monitoring and alerting within the Sentiance Platform.
- You will harden the Sentiance platform against intrusions.
- You work closely with the Platform Squad on the architecture and design of the Sentiance Platform.
- You coach junior engineers on pitfalls and best practices of highly scalable infrastructure.
Desired skills and expertise
- Academic degree (BSc or MSc) in computer science or related field.
- Proven experience running operations for systems with millions of users that process terabytes of data.
- Ability to build out an Operations team to support business goals.
- Cloud computing (pref. Amazon Web Services).
- Shell scripting and automation, you know Linux inside out.
- Infrastructure-as-code is your mantra: you know server provisioning tools (e.g. Ansible) and containers (e.g. Docker).
- Monitoring frameworks (e.g. Nagios, ELK, …).
- Programming in Java and/or Python.
- Fluent in English.
Bonus
Experience with any of the following is considered a plus:
- Database (SQL/NOSQL) and/or web server (nginx) administration.
- Experience with Microservices.
- Experience with Hadoop ecosystem tools (Spark/Kafka/HDFS/YARN…).