Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Alpine Solutions Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpine Solutions Group in Chicago is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design and maintain a highly available, high-performance distributed system that processes trades and integrates with blockchain and banking systems. You will collaborate with stakeholders in the digital asset space and build an entire platform from the ground up.

This role reports to the Head of Engineering and requires hands-on cloud infrastructure experience, strong security practices, and a fintech/crypto

Qualifications

• 4+ years of total infrastructure/devops/SRE/platform engineer experience.
• Hands-on with Terraform to create and manage resources as code.
• Experience designing cloud infrastructure and security controls.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes and distributed systems.
• Background in fintech, crypto or trading environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect highly resilient and scalable cloud-based distributed systems.
• Implement security controls.
• Deploy and patch new infrastructure and applications.
• Monitor production infrastructure and lead production support efforts.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

DevOps

SRE

Platform engineering

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

• 4+ years of total infrastructure/devops/sre engineer/platform engineers


• Able to create new AWS resources using terraform, using it as infrastructure as code to create and manage resources


• Managed support and maintain the entire cloud infrastructure


• Biggest things: AWS cloud services, terraform, Kubernetes, and infra and code


• Architected and implemented a cloud based infrastructure using aws, terraform Kubernetes


• Must be hands on with scripting with terraform


• Has set up cloud infrastructure that will run production code


• Comes from a team of less than 10 people


• Understands networking, subnets, firewalls, security groups within networking


• Comes from one of these two:

A smaller team /start up

Financial services, crypto, or trading company background

PLUS:

• Bachelors in Computer Science


• Has come from a smaller start up


• Built an infrastructure environment from scratch in the cloud before


• Has Worked within a highly secure and Highly resilient cloud environment and understands fault tolerance (two of everything and can talk to each other)

DAY TO DAY:

We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, responsible for implementing and maintaining the architecture of a highly available, high performance distributed system that processes trades and interacts with the blockchain and banking systems. In this position you will collaborate with stakeholders, get to know the ins and outs of the digital asset space, and get to build an entire platform from the ground up. The position will report to the Head of Engineering.

This client of ours is a digital assets exchange created in collaboration between US retail wealth managers and market makers for secure and compliant trading of digital assets, which is bringing best practices from existing markets to crypto (e.g., segregation of duties to reduce conflicts of interest between a market maker and an exchange) while mitigating the conflicts of interest in current digital asset markets.

• Design and architect highly resilient and scalable cloud based distributed systems


• Implement security controls


• Deploy and patch new infrastructure and applications


• Monitor production infrastructure and lead production support efforts