Sn. Infrastructure Engineer
On-siteAtlanta, Georgia, United States or Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Design, develop, and implement enterprise platform software services enabling scalable, secure, and policy-enforced production operations across the software delivery lifecycle. Build control plane components, event-driven automation systems, and policy-as-code enforcement engines integrating self-service developer experiences, governance gates, and observability. Manage large infrastructure projects and troubleshoot complex technical issues impacting performance and reliability while ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks. Provide technical guidance to infrastructure teams and collaborate with cross-functional partners to continuously improve standards and processes. This in-office role requires 5 days per week onsite.
Required Qualifications
- English (Required)
- 1st shift (United States of America)
- 5-days per week onsite
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
- Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering
- Advanced knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies including cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, and middleware
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in the financial services industry, particularly within regulated environments subject to FFIEC, SOX, NIST 800-53, or PCI compliance frameworks
- Strong proficiency in Python (FastAPI) and/or Java for implementing production microservices deployed on Kubernetes or OpenShift
- Hands-on implementation experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego for policy-as-code authoring, testing, and enforcement
- Proven experience implementing Apache Kafka producer/consumer services, schema registry integration (Confluent), and event-driven architecture patterns in production environments
- Demonstrated experience implementing resilience patterns including circuit breakers, bulkheads, retry with backoff, dead-letter queues, and graceful degradation in distributed systems
- Experience implementing horizontal scaling, connection pooling, caching strategies, and performance optimization to meet sub-200ms p95 latency and 99.9%+ availability SLOs
- Proficiency implementing GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including custom pipeline stages, security scanning integration, and governance gate development
- Experience implementing Backstage developer portal workflows, including software template development, catalog entity management, and scaffolder plugin authoring
- Working knowledge of HashiCorp Vault for implementing secrets injection, credential rotation, and automated secrets path bootstrapping
- Experience implementing observability instrumentation using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Splunk, and distributed tracing systems (Jaeger/Tempo)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
- Experience implementing container security practices including image signing (Cosign), SBOM generation (CycloneDX), and container scanning pipelines
- Industry certifications such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, HashiCorp Certified Vault Associate, or equivalent
- Prior experience implementing or contributing to internal developer platforms (IDPs) or platform engineering initiatives at enterprise scale
- Experience engineering with AI coding agents and assistants (e.g., GitLab Duo, GitHub Copilot, or similar) as collaborative development partners to accelerate implementation, generate code, review designs, and augment engineering workflows
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