Infrastructure Engineer - Brazil

Who we are:

AlphaSights is the leading global knowledge platform. Our sophisticated technology platform enables our clients, our people, and our experts to connect, collaborate, and transfer globally distributed knowledge faster than ever before. Professionals at investment firms, consultancies, corporations and nonprofits rely on us to connect them seamlessly with knowledgeable domain experts who help enhance their thinking, inform critical decisions and propel their business forward. Founded in 2008, AlphaSights currently employs more than 1,500 professionals in nine offices around the globe and regularly ranks as one of the fastest-growing companies in the world.

The role:

AlphaSights' Infrastructure Engineers work hard to make sure we’re performant, highly available and resilient to failures. As an infrastructure engineer, you will be responsible for planning, building and maintaining our core AWS infrastructure and our CI/CD pipelines and toolset. 

We're looking for people who are interested in designing and executing solutions to a very high standard, comfortable working across multiple technologies, and learn quickly when new ones are introduced. We care more about your engineering skill versus your deep knowledge of a particular tool, provider or technology.

What you’ll do:

• Create solutions that enable our engineering teams to deploy code quickly, reliably and securely

• Ensure the availability, scalability, performance and security of our cloud infrastructure

• Diagnose and troubleshoot application and infrastructure related issues quickly and effectively

• Provision cloud resources based on capacity, computing and security requirements

• Always have best security practices top of mind, employing zero trust and principle of least privilege across all critical systems and resources

• Work in tandem with development teams to manage and execute DevOps and Infrastructure initiatives

• Regularly evaluate and research alternative solutions to improve internal DevOps processes

• Continuously evaluate and refine the monitoring of our critical infrastructure and applications

Who you are:

• 3+ years experience in demonstrating competency and positive results in a DevOps, SRE or Infrastructure Engineering role

• Professional experience with CI/CD tooling and concepts, including Git, CircleCI, GitLab, Spinnaker

• 3+ years experience managing and demonstrating competency with AWS infrastructure, including EKS, IAM, RDS, S3, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, ECR and ASM. AWS Certification is a plus

• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes administration and container orchestration in a production context

• Capable of developing and maintaining tools that enable developers to manage environments and automate common tasks

• Experience with automating infrastructure provisioning using Terraform or another IaC tool

• Knowledge of a variety of security concepts and frameworks that can be leveraged in your day to day work, and applying those concepts in securing our AWS environments

• Experience with multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking.

• Familiarity with disaster recovery concepts, failover and redundant architecture.

• Highly collaborative, organized and has the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects.

• Highly driven and proactive – you relentlessly and independently push through hurdles and drive towards excellent outcomes.

Who you would work with:

• You would join a dynamic, multinational, and diverse team who enjoy solving interesting problems in a collaborative environment
• We have self-taught engineers as well as graduates from top Computer Science and Engineering schools
• Your co-workers will include motivated recent graduates as well as experienced industry leaders from companies such as Google and Amazon

Learn more about our tech organization and see our team in action by viewing this video!

Don't worry if your experience or background doesn't match all of these areas, we believe a broad spectrum of experience provides great perspective on solving problems in new and innovative ways and we’d love to hear from you.

Please note that unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas for this position. AlphaSights is an equal opportunity employer.