Infrastructure Engineer (Remote) - Us

Who we are:

AlphaSights is the leading global knowledge platform. Our sophisticated technology platform enables our clients, our people, and our experts to connect, collaborate, and transfer globally distributed knowledge faster than ever before. Professionals at investment firms, consultancies, corporations and nonprofits rely on us to connect them seamlessly with knowledgeable domain experts who help enhance their thinking, inform critical decisions and propel their business forward. Founded in 2008, AlphaSights currently employs more than 1,500 professionals in nine offices around the globe and regularly ranks as one of the fastest-growing companies in the world.

The role:

AlphaSights' Infrastructure Engineers work hard to make sure we're performant, highly available and resilient to failures. As an infrastructure engineer, you will be responsible for planning, building and maintaining our core AWS infrastructure and our CI/CD pipelines and toolset.

We're looking for people who are interested in designing and executing solutions to a very high standard, comfortable working across multiple technologies, and learn quickly when new ones are introduced. We care more about your engineering skill versus your deep knowledge of a particular tool, provider or technology.

What you'll do:

• Ensure the availability, scalability, performance and security of our cloud infrastructure
• Regularly evaluate and research alternative solutions to improve internal DevOps processes
• Always have best security practices top of mind, employing zero trust and principle of least privilege across all critical systems and resources
• Continuously evaluate and refine the monitoring of our critical infrastructure and applications
• Provision cloud resources based on capacity, computing and security requirements
• Diagnose and troubleshoot application and infrastructure related issues quickly and effectively
• Work in tandem with development teams to manage and execute DevOps and Infrastructure initiatives
• Create solutions that enable our engineering teams to deploy code quickly, reliably and securely

Who you are:

• Experience with automating infrastructure provisioning using Terraform or another IaC tool
• Highly collaborative, organized and has the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects.
• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes administration and container orchestration in a production context
• Familiarity with disaster recovery concepts, failover and redundant architecture.
• Capable of developing and maintaining tools that enable developers to manage environments and automate common tasks
• Professional experience with CI/CD tooling and concepts, including Git, CircleCI, GitLab, Spinnaker
• Experience with multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking.
• Highly driven and proactive – you relentlessly and independently push through hurdles and drive towards excellent outcomes.
• 2+ years experience managing and demonstrating competency with AWS infrastructure, including EKS, IAM, RDS, S3, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, ECR and ASM. AWS Certification is a plus
• Knowledge of a variety of security concepts and frameworks that can be leveraged in your day to day work, and applying those concepts in securing our AWS environments
• 2+ years experience in demonstrating competency and positive results in a DevOps, SRE or Infrastructure Engineering role

Who you would work with:

• Your co-workers will include motivated recent graduates as well as experienced industry leaders from companies such as Google and Amazon
• You would join a dynamic, multinational, and diverse team who enjoy solving interesting problems in a collaborative environment
• We have self-taught engineers as well as graduates from top Computer Science and Engineering schools

Learn more about our tech organization and see our team in action by viewing this video!

This position is remote friendly. You will have the option to opt into one of the following work environments:

• In-office: New York, NY
• Remote: Only if you have/will have a permanent address in NY, NJ, PA, CT, NC, GA, FL, or TX

• $150,000 - $160,000 base salary

Don't worry if your experience or background doesn't match all of these areas, we believe a broad spectrum of experience provides great perspective on solving problems in new and innovative ways and we'd love to hear from you.

Please note that unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas for this position. AlphaSights is an equal opportunity employer.