About the job
AlphaSights' Platform Engineers work hard to make sure we’re performant, highly available and resilient to failures. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for planning, building and maintaining our core AWS infrastructure and our CI/CD pipelines and toolset.
We're looking for people who are interested in designing and executing solutions to a very high standard, comfortable working across multiple technologies, and learn quickly when new ones are introduced. We care more about your engineering skill versus your deep knowledge of a particular tool, provider or technology.
What You’ll Do
- Create solutions that enable our engineering teams to deploy code quickly, reliably and securely
- Ensure the availability, scalability, performance and security of our cloud infrastructure
- Diagnose and troubleshoot application and infrastructure related issues quickly and effectively
- Provision cloud resources based on capacity, computing and security requirements
- Always have best security practices top of mind, employing zero trust and principle of least privilege across all critical systems and resources
- Work in tandem with development teams to manage and execute DevOps and Infrastructure initiatives
- Regularly evaluate and research alternative solutions to improve internal DevOps processes
- Continuously evaluate and refine the monitoring of our critical infrastructure and applications
- 3+ years experience in demonstrating competency and positive results in a DevOps, SRE or Infrastructure Engineering role
- Professional experience with CI/CD tooling and concepts
- 3+ years experience managing and demonstrating competency with AWS infrastructure, including EKS, IAM, RDS, S3, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, ECR and ASM. AWS Certification is a plus
- Capable of developing and maintaining tools that enable developers to manage environments and automate common tasks
- Experience with automating infrastructure provisioning using Terraform or another IaC tool
- Knowledge of a variety of security concepts and frameworks that can be leveraged in your day to day work, and applying those concepts in securing our AWS environments
- Experience with multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking.
- Familiarity with disaster recovery concepts, failover and redundant architecture.
- Highly collaborative, organized and has the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects.
- Highly driven and proactive – you relentlessly and independently push through hurdles and drive towards excellent outcomes.
Please note that we are able to sponsor visas for this position. AlphaSights is an equal opportunity employer.