DevOps/AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Full time. Hybrid work model in Barcelona, Spain

We are Zoundream, a dynamic, growing startup, developing the world's most advanced technology for infant voice analysis, using AI and sound recognition.

Our team has a strong background in machine learning and embedded systems, a mature core technology that we are continually improving upon, and an award-winning product based on it. We are now in the process of developing the next iteration of this product and continually expanding our user base.

We are looking to expand our team with a cloud engineer specialized on the AWS platform, with a proven track record in implementing and monitoring services at scale, while maintaining at all times a high level of reliability.

What you will do:

We need your expertise to manage our production infrastructure all matters pertaining to scalability and reliability and help bring to market new products. More specifically:

Improve and expand our monitoring and observability system to:

o Alert of anomalies before they become problems.

o Allow the engineering team to help identify and solve the root cause of any detected anomalies.

o Provide our business people a clear and constantly up-to-date view of operational costs and traffic patterns, so they can make the best informed decisions on future offerings and partnerships.

Contribute to, and improve, our CI/CD infrastructure, establish practices that guarantee the quality of our code as well as smooth and safe deployments.

Contribute to ensuring that our organization's security practices meet GDPR, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 requirements.

Work with the rest of the engineering team to help identify ways to reduce costs and improve performance while maintaining or increasing reliability, security and performance.

Constantly document your work and engage in knowledge transfer with the rest of the team.

Help foster a work culture aligned with the most current DevOps and IT Security principles and practices.

Help writing job descriptions and participate in interviews for hiring new staff. As our cloud engineering team grows, your help in shaping it will be invaluable.

What you will bring:

A strong and provable track record in deploying and monitoring highly scalable infrastructure for cloud services.

At least 3 years of experience in working with Terraform and the AWS cloud.

An honest and forward approach to the review of existing systems and infrastructure.

Great communication skills. You are not afraid to give and receive honest and constructive feedback which helps the team work together better.

Confidence in your experience and expertise: you don't hold back in pointing out better ways of doing things whenever an opportunity arises to do so.

An interest and willingness to help shape the direction of the company as it grows: you are interested in joining a small interdisciplinary team of people with different backgrounds, open to change and welcoming new perspectives on how to do things better, more efficiently and more pleasantly for everyone.

Tech Stack:

• We use AWS, currently leverage API GW, Athena, ECS, ECR, Elasticache/Redis, Kinesis, Lambda, MemoryDB, VPC, S3, SNS, SQS, RDS. This list is not exclusive, if you have more experience with AWS, whether with cost optimization strategies or security best practices, such skills will be welcome too!
• We use Terraform Cloud to manage our infrastructure; Github Actions for CI/CD; OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, Grafana, CloudWatch/alarms for observability and monitoring; Cloudflare for DNS, proxy, WAF, and more.
• IT SysAdmin, IT Support, InfoSec experience are also very welcome.
• The technology stack driving our software includes Python 3, Node.js/TypeScript and Go, therefore any experience or familiarity there is a plus.

Note that we do not use Kubernetes and currently we do not have plans to migrate to Kubernetes.

What type of person you are:

Proactive. Independent. Entrepreneur spirit. Nobody will tell you day by day what to do

Curious, always willing to learn new things. We're a startup: we do new things every day. And for most of them, we learn from scratch. You'll need to be able to do the same, and be comfortable with that

Structured. Able to read a project plan, and stick to agreed milestones and time. No one will chase other people's timelines or deliverables. You need to be able to handle your own todo list, time and resources

Fluent in English We are an international team, English is our day-to-day working language.

What we offer:

Becoming a key person, in the core business of a high-tech ambitious startup

New challenges, constantly. No single day will be like the previous one

An extremely dynamic and innovative environment

Opportunity to really influence what the company does, day by day. We expect everyone to challenge and shape - all together - what we do

Full time employment, permanent role, company laptop.

Salary range: 50-60K €/year + 20K € stock options.

Office in coworking space Aticco Bogatell. Hybrid work policy. Possibility to work from home on some days of the week

Support to EU citizens to obtain a local work permit

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