Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Unqork is a new way to build enterprise software: it's a purely visual, drag-and-drop no-code platform designed to support the scale, complexity and security that enterprise applications require. Our customers are leaders in insurance, financial services, healthcare and the public sector, and they use Unqork to build custom software faster, with higher quality and at lower costs than code-based approaches. Founded in 2017, Unqork reached unicorn status in 2020, with a valuation of over two billion dollars. Unqork has been named one of the Best Startup Employers by Forbes, Best Places to Work by Built In NYC and one of LinkedIn's Top Startups.

At Unqork, we are ignited by inclusive and thoughtful thinkers  who aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo. We encourage you to apply!

The Impact U will make:

• Report to our Engineering Manager of the Cloud Infrastructure team
• Commit to your team’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion goals created in our DEI Unqork Application 
• Automate the multi-cloud infrastructure lifecycle and keep our services running.  
• Be a key driver of improvements that impact  the high availability, resiliency, scalability, security and cost optimization of our mature infrastructure in AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Scale existing systems sustainably through automation; evolve systems by pushing code changes that improve reliability and SDLC velocity.
• Build tools to deploy and monitor our available, essential cloud infrastructure, defining infrastructure  as code via Ansible and Terraform
• Provide technical leadership through mentorship, communicating technical information to management, and knowledge-sharing best practices
• Promote best practices, for security, automation, scalability, and high availability
• Develop software release and deployment processes/infrastructure (CI/CD)
• Work with engineering teams across Unqork to understand the different services and needs to help achieve the best results in delivering them
• Participate as a partner in planning the product roadmap, sprint planning, and stand-ups
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Participate in on-call responsibilities 
• Write documentation across your projects

Tools / Technologies we use:

• AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Kubernetes (800+ clusters)
• Docker
• Mongo Cloud
• Consul
• Vault
• Rancher
• Helm
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Github Actions (CI)
• others…

What U bring:

• You must be a U.S. citizen or Green Card holder to apply for this position
• 8+ years of experience in designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure at a large-scale (multiple clusters)
• Experience with networking and modern web services architectures
• Experience with best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Background in Linux/Unix administration
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining services within AWS, Azure or GCP
• Experience operating a production kubernetes environment
• Experience deploying kubernetes applications / kubernetes operations
• Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or Nomad in production
• Experience with Spinnaker, ArgoCD, Codefresh, Octopus Deploy, Flux, etc (any CD tool)
• Experience in security auditing and best practices
• Experience building and maintaining infrastructure through software (Ansible and Terraform)
• Strong communication skills
• Familiarity with Agile processes

Benefits:

💻 Work from home with a remote-first community

🏝 Unlimited PTO (and the encouragement to use it)

📝 Student loan payback program

🏥 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision options available to you and your dependents

💸 Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

🏠 Monthly stipend toward your WFH setup, vacation, development and more

💰 Employer-sponsored 401(k) with contribution match

🏆 Free Peloton membership through UHC

📣 Robust DEI Program that compensates ERSG leaders for their efforts

🍼 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave for all new parents

A few more things:

At Unqork we value DEI and every Unqorker focuses on a DEI organizational goal that is tied to their performance evaluation. All Unqorkers can actively measure and track the impact of their DEI initiatives through our custom DEI application. 

Unqork is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. We strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring proce