Infrastructure Engineer

Ostium is looking for a senior-level infrastructure to spearhead our ambitious efforts on the infrastructure side. We are building a state-of-the-art infrastructure layer that will allow engineers to self-serve 90% of their infrastructure needs. This will allow you to focus on higher-level projects and help us achieve ambitious goals.

This is an on-site position based in our New York office.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Maintain, improve, and optimize a new data pipeline to handle massive scale effectively.

- Use 100% IaC to build, maintain, deploy, and manage applications and services.

- Latency - Decrease latency, increase visibility, and find ways to give us an edge (real financial impact on the business). This means both working with app teams + writing application code.

- Lead the company on best practices for infrastructure.

- Empower every single developer at Ostium to self-serve: deploy new applications, request new infrastructure, monitor and alert—you name it.

- Reliability and Security - Constantly thinking like a hacker who wants to take advantage of our system and bring it down. Leveraging AI tools and our existing test suite to coordinate contained attacks on our system.

- Stack Orchestrator - An in-hour testing and validation tool for the various parts of our stack locally. Make it mature so developers can run their application in 10 different ways locally and work effectively with multiple agents in parallel.

WHO YOU ARE

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

- Core infrastructure fundamentals (security, networking, access control, etc).

- Strong experience with Kubernetes and Kubernetes best practices.

- Hands-on experience with Terraform, ArgoCD, GitHub Action, Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana. Evangelist of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

- Experienced with CICD pipelines and building dynamic releases systems.

- Nice to have: Strong understanding of modern data pipelining and best practices.

CHARACTERISTIC REQUIREMENTS