Job Title: Azure Infrastructure/Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) (80% REMOTE)
Hybrid: Remote + 1 days a week in WEST MIDLAND office location
Clearance: DV
Company Overview:
Atreides helps organizations transform large and complex multi-modal datasets into information-rich, geo-spatial data subscriptions used across various use cases. We focus on providing defense intelligence professionals with high-fidelity data solutions to derive insights quickly. As a fast-growing, high-performance early-stage company, we value diversity and inclusion, trust, and autonomy. A mission-driven mindset and entrepreneurial spirit are essential as we work to unlock the power of massive-scale data for a safer, stronger, and more prosperous world.
Team Overview:
We are a passionate team of engineers, data scientists, and analysts with backgrounds in operational intelligence, law enforcement, large multinationals, and cybersecurity operations. We obsess about designing products that will change the way global companies, governments and nonprofits protect themselves from external threats and global adversaries.
Position Overview: We're looking for a skilled Azure Infrastructure/Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a focus on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to join our rapidly growing team. Your role will involve designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, secure cloud infrastructure on Azure, while ensuring the infrastructure's reliability and availability for data processing in the petabyte scale. You will collaborate with our developers to provide a robust platform for our innovative applications.
You'll leverage your experience in dealing with big data and complex problems to ensure that our infrastructure is not only stable, but also optimized for our unique needs. You'll be working on tasks that don't necessarily have out-of-the-box solutions and will need to use your skills, creativity, and understanding of our mission to find the right answers.
Team Principles:
At Atreides, we believe that teams work best when they:
- Remain curious and passionate in all aspects of our work
- Promote clear, direct, and transparent communication
- Embrace the 'measure twice, cut once' philosophy
- Value and encourage diverse ideas and technologies
- Lead with empathy in all interactions
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and maintain scalable, secure Azure infrastructure, with a focus on Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
- Continually monitor and optimize infrastructure for availability, performance and cost-effectiveness
- Collaborate with software engineers to ensure infrastructure effectively supports application requirements
- Maintain high-level system security and implement necessary security measures
- Utilize your expertise in big data to ensure infrastructure is optimized for data processing on a petabyte scale
- Lead troubleshooting and resolution efforts for infrastructure issues, providing swift and reliable solutions
- Collaborate with Third Party entities that are co-delivering to Customer to liaise and supply expertise on Cloud / Technical Devops
- Develop and maintain detailed documentation of infrastructure design and specifications
- Work in collaboration with multiple third party vendors on cutting edge defense facing programs, to include a plethora of sensor and cloud integration platforms
- Consistent advisory and collaborative work on niche technical asks, demanding outside the box problem solving to provide obscure solutions
Desired Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience in Azure Infrastructure and/or SRE roles. Azure certificates in Network, Admin, Security and Hybrid Admin a plus. AWS experience is a plus
- Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Pulumi or Terraform or CloudFormation along with experience in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters
- Proficiency in implementing and integrating VPN solutions and overlay services, such as those from Cloudflare, into complex cloud-hosted network infrastructures
- Knowledge of big data tools and environments, having previously worked with at least 100TB of data at production scale
- Experience with SQL and noSQL environments
- Familiarity with geospatial data formats such as Parquet/GeoParquet, GeoJSON, and Shapefiles is a plus.
- Experience in using DevOps tools such as Git, Docker, Jenkins, etc.
- Knowledge of networking concepts such as IP Protocol, DNS, and load balancing, spanning both hardware and software, with experience from cloud infrastructures to physical systems, ideally with exposure to CCNA certification.
- Experience with orchestration like Dagster, Prefect, Airflow or Temporal
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think quickly in a high-performance environment.
- The ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Technical concepts with a Defence focus are nice to have.
Compensation and Benefits:
? Competitive salary
? Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans
? Flexible hybrid work environment
? Additional benefits like flexible hours, work travel opportunities, competitive vacation time and parental leave
While meeting all of these criteria would be ideal, we understand that some candidates may meet most, but not all. If you're passionate, curious and ready to "work smart and get things done," we'd love to hear from you.