Rapid7 Senior Infrastructure Engineer 

United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belfast 

439050500

About the role

This is a unique role, combining aspects of typical DevOps Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Systems Administrators, and Cloud Architects.

In this role, you will be:

• Deploying infrastructure that will be accessed by both internal and external customers

• Monitoring the infrastructure to predict, detect, or remediate potential or ongoing issues

• Ensuring the infrastructure is secure, including performing OS-level patching, auditing AWS and app permissions, and working with Information Security to reduce risk

• Automating your tasks or assisting others in automating theirs

• Assist others in troubleshooting issues that in one way or another involve the infrastructure you manage

• Communicating technology specifications and procedures with internal stakeholders, especially in relation to new customer onboarding and ongoing support issues
  

The skills you will bring:

• Ability to drive projects to completion; self-reliance when accomplishing underlying tasks

• Knowledge of the Linux OS, including file system, package & process management, logging, text manipulation, etc

• Knowledge of networking and security fundamentals

• Ability to work in a cloud environment and navigate various services to manage and troubleshoot infrastructure (AWS; EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, VPC, Lambda)

• Practical experience with Kubernetes

• Experience building and managing infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation

• Use of CloudWatch or Datadog for infrastructure monitoring

• Experience with Python a plus