Sr Infrastructure Engineer

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and managing our organization's IT infrastructure. You'll be responsible for ensuring the availability, reliability, and security of our systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Design: Lead the design and architecture of the various tooling infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• Infrastructure Management: Oversee the day-to-day management of servers, storage and cloud-based services to maintain optimal performance.
• Project Leadership: Lead infrastructure projects, from planning and implementation to monitoring and optimization.
• Troubleshooting: Resolve complex infrastructure issues, including hardware and software problems, and guide junior engineers. Recognized as an expert in the systems they are assigned to monitor.
• Capacity Planning: Monitor system performance and capacity, recommending enhancements and scalability.
• Security Compliance: Ensure infrastructure compliance with security policies, procedures, and standards. Provides insights into opportunities for automated testing and regression checks that ensure ongoing compliance. 
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure configurations, procedures, and best practices.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Expertise in server, network, and storage technologies, with a strong foundation in design and architecture.
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and experience using infrastructure-as-code techniques (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Python and PowerShell to automate and optimize processes.
• Extensive experience in SQL databases (preferably PostgreSQL).
• Experience in Linux (Debian) and Windows server environments, virtualization technologies, cloud platforms, and automation tools.
• Comprehensive understanding of security principles and best practices.
• Strong leadership capabilities combined with excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while effectively collaborating within a team environment.
• Relevant certifications, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, or CompTIA Network+, are advantageous.

What We Offer:

• A challenging and rewarding role with significant impact.
• Opportunities to work on cutting-edge technologies.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• A supportive and collaborative work environment.

Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with headquarters in Moscow (ID) and Boston (MA) and offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India.  We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities. 

Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.