A technology company developing a next-generation data acceleration platform is looking for an **Infrastructure & Automation Engineer** to be the first engineer in this area, building and maintaining the automation and infrastructure behind its core technology. This is a highly hands-on role with significant ownership and the opportunity to shape the foundations of the environment from the ground up.
**Responsibilities:**
• Build robust automation frameworks for testing, validating, orchestrating, and releasing software.
• Develop internal tools in Python to automate complex workflows, debugging, testing, and release processes.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ensuring every release meets high standards of correctness and performance.
• Build monitoring and observability across distributed systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.
• Work hands-on with AWS and Kubernetes/EKS to build and operate scalable infrastructure.
• Investigate complex system failures and performance issues across the application, container, cloud, and Linux layers.
• Work closely with low-level systems and engineering teams, creating automated feedback loops that help drive system and hardware-level optimization.