Infrastructure Engineer

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About the Role

As a member of our engineering team, you will play a key role in shaping and evolving our client's cloud infrastructure. You will design, implement, and maintain highly available and secure systems, partnering with engineering teams to deliver exceptional application performance and rapid deployment cycles. This position requires a broad understanding of cloud technologies, automation, and best practices for system reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable infrastructure solutions using modern cloud and container technologies.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Build and maintain observability frameworks, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing, to ensure system health and performance.
• Partner with development teams to align infrastructure capabilities with application needs.
• Plan, execute, and validate infrastructure upgrades, such as Kubernetes and other critical platform components.
• Enhance system reliability through proactive identification and resolution of bottlenecks or weaknesses.
• Collaborate with teams to define and implement CI/CD pipelines that enable rapid and secure deployments.
• Ensure infrastructure meets compliance, security, and scalability standards.
• Document processes, standards, and runbooks to support maintainability and knowledge sharing.

About You

The essentials:

• 8+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or related roles.
• Proficient in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Strong expertise in AWS with EKS
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes
• Experience with Apache Druid at an enterprise level
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, FluxCD).
• Knowledge of distributed systems, networking, and security fundamentals.
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Strong ability to collaborate, communicate, and work effectively in distributed teams.
• Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., DataDog, Splunk, Sentry) and best practices.
• On Call rotation one week every six weeks.

Not a must, but a plus:

• Hands-on experience with Pulumi or similar tool.

At .monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.