Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Job description Infrastructure Platform Engineer

• Are you passionate about building a cloud infrastructure platform to meet business requirements?

• Are you able to demonstrate a mix of technical skills, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities?

• Are you continuously learning and looking for adoption of new technologies?

If the answers to the above questions are yes, then this role could be ideal for you

We are looking for a skilled Infrastructure Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Platform Engineering team - where you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure solutions. Your day-to-day work will be alongside other Infrastructure Platform Engineers in close collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features and enhancements. This also includes continually evaluating and optimizing the cloud platform infrastructure to improve performance, reduce costs, and enhance security.

Job requirements What you will do 

• Striving to build out the company's cloud infrastructure in line with the technical vision 

• Help to shape GRID's technological landscape together with experienced colleagues

• Developing and improving existing infrastructure and delivery process

• Clearly communicating technical approaches with technical teams as well as the wider business

• Taking pride in building stable, scalable systems and maintaining a high degree of infrastructure uptime, both for production and development systems

Your skills will include

• Minimum of 2 years of commercial experience in Platform Engineering or related fields

• A self-starting attitude with the ability to think on their feet and take the initiative to get things done

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment

• Passionate with building scalable cloud-based infrastructure based on AWS

• Implement infrastructure provisioning using of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) tools

• Experience in running Kubernetes clusters

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, such as GitHub Actions (GitLab CI)

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, performance, and reliability.

• Enthusiastic in writing clean and modular code that is easy to read, maintain, update, and scale

• Transparent about system outages, errors, and mistakes, and see them as a way to learn and improve

• Being able to work the CET time zone

Nice to have

• Experience of working with microservices and a strong understanding of the benefits and challenges of working with this architecture pattern

• Experience of working with software teams using similar technologies (Go, Kotlin/JVM, TypeScript)

• Advanced level of hands-on experience with the Linux ecosystem

• Experience of using Prometheus / Grafana for monitoring software and infrastructure performance

• Experience of running large MySQL and PostgreSQL instances at scale

• Extensive experience working with distributed systems running messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ and Kafka

• Familiarity/Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure)

Benefits of working at GRID

• Flexible working conditions

• Mental health support

• Company and team-wide events

• Work travel opportunities with travel insurance

• Training and development budget

About our culture

• Flexibility: Work from the place that inspires and motivates you the most From our awesome Berlin/ Wroclaw offices to the comfort of your own home. Meet up in person with your colleagues every so often, making use of the travel opportunities GRID offers

• Sustainability: We want our employees to be well-rested and able to perform effectively. We offer a generous vacation allowance (28+ days a year) and the opportunity to speak with professional counselors to support mental health, covered by the business

• Pragmatic: GRID thrives on being rational, allowing us to make the best decisions rather than keeping to rigid processes and procedures that don't work well for us

• Fostering growth: Empowering employees who are determined to grow by providing a self-development budget and strong career advancement opportunities. Support from your teammates to guide and encourage you to grow in your desired professional field

• Company culture: We believe a diverse industry is best served with an inclusive and diverse workforce. With people based in over 24 countries, our latest employee survey shows that more than 98% agree GRID provides a supportive, effective remote work environment

About GRID

Founded in 2018 in Berlin, GRID offers the GRID Data Platform to the esports & games industry. Specializing in in-game and play-by-play data, GRID curates data for game developers and tournament organizers and leverages its data platform to unlock the potential of the right holders' data assets for the purposes of storytelling, fan engagement, and integrity.

GRID's official data partnerships cover multiple partnered rights holders (data sources) and integrated commercial data consumers, covering 15+ game titles. Our exclusive data partners include the likes of Riot Games, Ubisoft, Krafton, Moonton, BLAST, PerfectWorld, Hero Esports and CCT.

If you have the ambition and desire to work at the forefront of cutting-edge industry projects, then GRID is the place for you.

Apply today to find out more and begin your journey

Details On-site, Remote, Hybrid

• Wrocław, Dolnośląskie, Poland

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