Infrastructure Engineer

HireTalent; Montreal; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in micromobility is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join their Cloud Platform Infrastructure team in Montreal. The role focuses on enhancing the infrastructure for their state-of-the-art cloud platform, applying Site Reliability Engineering principles and ensuring optimal use of resources. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code, AWS, and security practices. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to innovative solutions across multiple markets.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of VPC fundamentals including subnets and routing.
• Experience with AWS services like ALB and Route53.
• Commitment to security fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Build infrastructure and improve production systems' robustness.
• Drive projects using Site Reliability Engineering principles.
• Share on-call responsibilities and improve on-call practices.

Skills

Infrastructure-as-code best practices

Git

Network observability

Security fundamentals

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Title: Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Montreal QC (Canada)
Duration: 6 Months (Contract to Hire)

Role Overview:

• At Client, our purpose is to serve and connect. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
• As a leader in micromobility, Client powers millions of rides daily across over 200 cities with our cutting-edge ride-sharing, bike-sharing, and scooter-sharing technologies.
• Our Montreal office is the birthplace of North America's first automated bike-share system, which has since revolutionized urban mobility.
• Today, our pioneering system is operational in more than 50 cities worldwide, including Barcelona, Bogota, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Dubai, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Montreal, New York, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, and Washington DC, to name just a few. Join us and be part of the team behind some of the world's largest and most successful bike-share systems!
• The Client's Solutions team is developing the future of micro-mobility and we are looking for a solid, experienced Infrastructure Consultant for our Cloud Platform Infrastructure team to work on helping us transition our customers to our latest generation platform and to make the platform evolve in a solution that can be brought to multiple different markets and business models.

Responsibilities:
● Use the core Site Reliability Engineering principles of change management, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, and production readiness reviews to run the platform.
● Build infrastructure and drive projects that break things with the aim to improve the robustness of production systems
● Build holistic visibility into SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, dependency graphs, past performance of software, network, and system to ensure that we can continue to scale without increasing operational burden or toil.
● Step back to observe patterns and develop innovative tools and automation to minimize toil. Use those learnings to drive the best operational practices.
● Share on-call responsibilities with other teammates and own the improvement of the team’s on-call practices
● Unblock, support, and effectively communicate across teams to achieve results
● Assist in cost engineering efforts to ensure effi cient use of cloud resources.

Requirements:

• Infrastructure-as-code best practices (preferably using Terraform and/or Crossplane) Source control best practices using Git A deep commitment to
• security fundamentals such as attack surface minimization, blast radius minimization and least-privilege authorization
• Deep understanding of VPC fundamentals including subnets, routing and security groups VPC peerings and Transit Gateway routing (including cross-region routing)
• Redundant Site-to-Site VPN best practices Direct Connect best practices AWS ALB configuration including automated configuration via a Kubernetes Load Balancer Controller DNS management on AWS Route53 including automated configuration via a Kubernetes External DNS controller
• Internal DNS management including the use of Route53 resolvers Network observability and alerting using cloud services such as Datadog Experience with operating in PCI-compliant environments is an advantage Experience with Private Link is an advantage
• Experience with BGP is a nice to have Experience with Kubernetes manifests and network meshes such as Cilium is an advantage