Our world-class software is the easiest way for small and medium-sized businesses to manage HR, payroll, employee engagement, and benefits. We’ve grown 100% year-on-year since our inception in 2014, and now service over 90,000 businesses and 850,000+ active users globally. We have exciting growth plans for 2023 and beyond, powered by our mission of making employment easier and more valuable for everyone.
We take a Remote First approach with our team. Employment Hero can hire across the world, so long as candidates have eligible working rights and are in a suitable timezone to their colleagues. If you’ve got the skills for the role and the passion for our mission then we want to hear from you!
About the Infrastructure Architect job:
Our Core Technology and Platform team are looking for an experienced Cloud Infrastructure professional with deep experience in Cloud technologies and Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses, to be a key subject matter expert in both our current infrastructure posture, and any future infrastructure architecture designs. This position is pivotal in strategically developing our scaling infrastructure, and delivering elegant solutions to unique and complex cloud technology challenges.
As our Infrastructure Architect you will:
- Provide expertise, design solutions, and architect infrastructure for existing and future needs, with a goal to support and improve engineering operations across the company.
- Mentor existing team members, providing both technical and soft-skill guidance to help them grow their expertise and impact.
- Communicate with and assess potential 3rd party vendors e.g. monitoring, infrastructure, build-pipelines etc.
- Determine a strategic vision that continually modernises the architecture and tooling to provide increased performance and resilience, whilst being cost-effective.
- Provide Cloud operation functions for a growing SaaS platform, focused optimised infrastructure components for uptime, scalability and performance (SLOs).
- Design processes and pipelines ensuring reliable workflow for developers and application deployments.
- Enhance engineersʼ productivity by developing internal tools and cloud automations.
- Define and then deliver to the metrics that define success for the team and company as a whole.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including security experts and architects to ensure and enforce best application and infrastructure-security practices.
- Participate in hiring activities to find the best talent to help grow the team’s capabilities.
- Participating in on-call rotations, incident management and providing emergency response for production incidents.
- passionate about working in a high-performing, collaborative, respective and intellectually challenging team.
- A strong communicator, with excellent English language skills (both verbal & written).
- Strong understanding of standard Software Engineering processes, Testing, quality coding practices, and Agile methodology.
- A critical thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Expertise in running a highly-available SaaS platform leveraging the AWS Cloud platform with deep knowledge of infrastructure design and deployment across multiple regions.
- Experience with Linux command line tools, operating system internals, networking layers and popular web application components (background jobs workers, web servers, load balancers, etc).
- Deep experience in cloud-native architectures; including Kubernetes based container orchestration systems, MicroService architecture, ServiceMesh, Secret management, Observability solutions, etc.
- Strong understanding and 3+ years of experience with at least one programming language and one configuration management tool.
- Expert level of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) based environment and use of complimentary service offerings on production deployments.
- Understanding of modern continuous integration/delivery pipeline and Gitops workflow.
- Strong sense of stateful systems and their use cases, including but not limited to ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL and Kafka.
- Knowledge of serverless technologies and design patterns including Lambda, DynamoDB.
- Understanding or experience with industry-standard compliance, e.g. ISO 27001:2013, GDPR.
- A background in using Terraform.
- AWS certification, e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional.
- Experience with Ruby or GoLang.
- Knowledge of .NET based system deployments and running.
- We are remote-first, where you can work from the comfort of your home, and enjoy flexible working time
- Work your local hours! 40 hour work week, Monday to Friday
- Generous vacation leave allowance
- A generous budget to spend on setting up your home office
- We set you up for success with the latest and greatest hardware, tools and tech
- Budgets towards continuing your learning
- International annual company conference (Last conference we spent a week in Phuket, Thailand!)
- Refer friends to open jobs and receive a cash bonus for every successful referral you make
- Participate in our Employee Share Options Program - you’ll be a part owner of Employment Hero
Why join Employment Hero?
Oh, and we don’t want to toot our own horn (actually yes, we do), but others think we’re pretty cool too – we’ve received many awards for smashing some seriously ambitious goals including:
- Raised $181M achieving unicorn status in February 2022
- LinkedIn Top 25 Startups 2021, ranked #2 in Australia
- The Australian Top 100 Innovators List 2021
- Raised $140M Series E round led by Insight Partners July 2021
- Raised $45M Series D round led by Seek 2021
- Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2020, ranked #42 in Australia
- LinkedIn Top 10 Startups 2020
- Raised $22M Series C Round led by Seek July 2019
- Raised $8 mill series B round led by Seek and OneVentures
- Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2019, ranked #20 in Australia
- GetApp Category Leader Q1 2019
- Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2018, ranked #12 in Australia
- HRD Gold Medalist - Human Capital Management Systems 2018
- HRD Gold Medalist - Rewards and Recognition Service Provider 2018
- HRD Rewards and Recognition Employer of Choice 2018
- LinkedIn Top 25 Startups 2018
- EY Entrepreneur of the Year National Finalist 2018
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