Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (FinOPs)

Why Lytx:

Do you want to join a team of hungry, humble, and capable people and dedicate your time and talent to making a difference in our world? At Lytx, you’ll work to apply innovative technology to improve safety and help save lives on our roadways! Being part of a market-leading, medium-sized technology company means that there's room for you to learn, grow, and make a significant impact! As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will work on Lytx production services which handles massive amounts of video and data collected from over 600,000 vehicles worldwide. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience crafting, building and automating AWS cloud infrastructure.  We will build and maintain IaC toolset to run all cloud services and work with multiple engineering teams to support cloud infrastructure projects.

You Will:

·       Understand AWS Cloud TCO (FinOPs) and have experience implementing tools and processes to improve AWS cost transparency, accountability, and cost efficiency. 

·       Build/Implement Core AWS services and infrastructure for compute, storage, network, monitoring, management, FinOps, databases.

·       Work closely with Architects, DBAs, Developers, DevOps, SRE and Data engineers to bake AWS standard methodologies, IaC and cost optimizations early in the design process.

·       Design and Implement Lytx cloud services using AWS Well architected framework principals.  

·       Build Lytx cloud resources using Infrastructure as code (IaC – Terraform/Terragrunt) using Gitops principals. 

What You'll Need:

·       7+ years of experience in running highly available cloud based distributed systems in multiple accounts using IaC.

·       7+ years of hands-on experience developing modular and reusable enterprise grade Terraform code to run AWS services. 

·       Experience implementing tools and processes to improve AWS cost transparency, accountability, and cost efficiency. 

·       Proficient with AWS cloud native technologies using:

o   Compute and storage services using, EC2, AMIs, Redshift, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, CloudWatch, Autoscaling.

o   AWS Security: IAM, AD, KMS, CloudTrail, Security Hub.

o   AWS Network: Route53, DNS, VPCs, Network ACLs, Security Groups (SGs), Transit Gateway, API Gateway, ALB, NLB, WAF.  

o   AWS Organization Management: SSO, SCP, Control Tower, CloudFormation stacks and stacksets.

·       5+ years hands-on programming experience: Terraform, Python, Golang (Go), Git

·       5+ years Linux Operating Experience (OS)

·       Excellent documentation and interpersonal skills. 

·       Participate in on-call rotation.

Preferred:

·       Certifications:  FinOPs, Multiple AWS Certifications. 

·       Experience leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to build and optimize cloud infrastructure solutions. 

·       Lambda

·       VPC peering

·       FlowLogs

·       Cloudflare

·       Experience in running containers

·       EKS / ECS

·       MSK

Personal Attributes:  

·       Self-Motivated with ability to work with minimal supervision and make collaborative decisions with peers while keeping management informed. Proactively identifying problems that need attention, and take initiative to resolve them within our defined process. 

·       Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment. 

·       Willing to be flexible to work outside of normal business hours as needed to complete maintenance, upgrades, resolve unplanned impacts to the business, and collaborate with offshore teams.  

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Lytx is powered by cutting-edge technology and Happy People. You want to use your powers for good, and that’s exactly what we do at Lytx. Our team is made up of hungry, humble, and capable people who are making a difference every day with technology that helps save lives each year.  

You’re driven to succeed and so are we. At Lytx, our mission is to protect a world in motion, and we do it by building technology and partnerships that help keep people safe on the road. The way we work is guided by our shared values: Deliver for the customer, Responsibility in every outcome, Innovate with purpose, Velocity with excellence, and Elevate each other.

If you’re looking for meaningful work, a team that challenges and supports you, and the chance to grow your career while making a real impact, we’d love to meet you.

Together, we’re helping make roadways safer and saving lives!

Lytx, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, gender, genetic information, uniformed service, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, or any other status protected by federal or state law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email TA@lytx.com.  Lytx conducts background checks on applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment in accordance with applicable local, state, federal and regional laws. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered. Background check results may potentially result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment and will be made in accordance with all applicable local, state, federal and regional laws.