Senior Infrastructure Strategist

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Senior Infrastructure Strategist to oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of our critical infrastructure systems. As a Senior Infrastructure Strategist, you will play a pivotal role in establishing and implementing best practices for infrastructure management, leading a team of engineers, and driving automation, monitoring, and incident response strategies.

This position combines technical expertise with business acumen to build and maintain high-performing, reliable infrastructure systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Design & Implementation:
  • Lead efforts to design and implement scalable and reliable infrastructure systems.
  • Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure business requirements are met.
  • Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and system inefficiencies.
• Incident Management & Response:
  • Establish and improve incident management processes and on-call rotations.
  • Lead incident response and root cause analysis for high-priority outages.
  • Drive post-incident reviews and ensure actionable insights are implemented.
• Automation & Tooling:
  • Develop and implement automated solutions to reduce manual operational tasks.
  • Enhance system observability through metrics, logging, and distributed tracing tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic APM).
  • Optimize CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployments.
• Collaboration:
  • Partner with software engineering teams to improve the reliability of applications and infrastructure.
  • Work closely with product/engineering teams to design scalable and robust systems.
  • Ensure seamless integration of monitoring and alerting systems across teams.
• Leadership & Team Building:
  • Manage, mentor, and grow a team of engineers.
  • Promote best practices and foster a culture of reliability and performance across the organization.
  • Drive performance reviews, skills development, and career progression for team members.
• Capacity Planning & Cost Optimization:
  • Perform capacity planning and implement autoscaling solutions to handle traffic spikes.
  • Optimize infrastructure and cloud costs while maintaining reliability and performance.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Technical Expertise:
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP) and Kubernetes.
  • Hands-on knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform/Helm/Ansible.
  • Proficiency in Java.
  • Expertise in distributed systems, databases, and load balancing.
• Monitoring & Observability:
  • Proficient with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic APM, or New Relic.
  • Understanding of metrics-driven approaches for system monitoring and alerting.
• Automation & CI/CD:
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Azure Pipelines etc).
  • Skilled in automation frameworks and tools for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Incident Management:
  • Proven track record in handling incidents, post-mortems, and implementing solutions to prevent recurrence.

Benefits:

• Be a key driver in building and scaling reliable infrastructure systems in a fast-paced environment.
• Work with cutting-edge technologies and influence the evolution of the infrastructure.
• Lead a high-impact team and foster a culture of reliability and innovation.