Job Description:
The Opportunity
The Data Infrastructure Engineer will join a well-established, collaborative team focused on scaling up our production data infrastructure. There will be regular opportunities for professional growth, including formal training and mentorship from more senior engineers. You’ll be part of a small squad of Data, Infrastructure, and QA specialists empowered to define ways of working that work best for everyone. You’ll have the freedom to come up with innovative solutions to unique challenges and help us use data to make work more human. The results you deliver are directly linked to our company's strategic objectives.
What we can offer you
- Implement monitoring solutions to track platform health, including metrics collection and alerting thresholds.
- Analyse and improve system performance across storage, compute, and networking layers.
- Maintain and enhance infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform.
- Implement deployment automation and CI/CD pipelines for consistent and reliable releases.
- Lead incident response efforts and conduct post-mortem analyses to prevent future incidents.
- Monitor resource utilisation trends and forecast capacity needs.
- Optimise infrastructure costs while maintaining performance SLAs.
- Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with data governance requirements.
The skills you will bring
- Ideally, you have at least 4 years of experience in managing cloud infrastructure, with a preference for experience in data infrastructure.
- You have hands-on experience with AWS services such as Redshift, EKS, S3, as well as knowledge of technologies like Athena, EMR, Apache Spark, Airflow, and similar tech stacks
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Terraform for infrastructure automation and management.
- You have basic Python programming skills.
- You communicate effectively and understand the importance of trust, transparency, and honesty.
- You build relationships with your colleagues and leaders through informal conversation as well as formal work-related collaboration.
Achievements
You've implemented automation to make life easier for your team - and you're excited to tell us about it!
The Company:
At Workhuman® our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals’ differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long-term growth and success. Even if you don’t think you “check every single box” above, please still consider applying. We’re looking for a human who is collaborative, innovative with a growth mindset
We love what we do because we’re shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world’s leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.
Did you know we have an award-winning culture across EMEA and North America:
- We were named as #5 Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work Awards in Ireland in 2022 in the large-sized workplace category. We were also recognised as the Best Workplace for Women and the Best Workplace in Technology in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
- In 2021 we were named as #2 Best Workplace in Europe in the medium-sized workplace category.
- We were also recognised as #2 Best Large Places to Work in Boston by Built In for 2023 as well as the Best Place to Work in Boston, U.S. Best Large Places to Work, and U.S. Best Places to Work.
- There are currently over 7.5 million users on the Workhuman® cloud across 180 countries.
- Our core values are Respect, Determination, Innovation, and Imagination.
Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based solely on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
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