Infrastructure and Operations Engineer

Position SummaryJob DescriptionCTA is seeking a talented infrastructure engineer to work on the modernization of one of the most critical data systems in progressive politics. CTA is undertaking work with a key progressive organization to completely rebuild key infrastructure. As the infrastructure engineer of this ground-floor initiative, you will play a central role in rebuilding a piece of data infrastructure central to the progressive ecosystem. This career-defining opportunity offers the chance to shape a high-impact project from the ground up, leveraging modern data technologies and DevOps practices. You’ll work within the supportive framework of an established, mission-driven organization with a history of delivering transformative solutions.As an infrastructure and reliability engineer, you’ll lead operations work, partnering with our engineering team to find scalable, repeatable, and secure solutions to complex technical challenges. You’ll partner closely with technical leadership and the client to ensure we implement observability, reliability, security, and resiliency in a greenfield environment. You’ll help us through the occasional outage and help us understand how always to improve detection and resilience.About UsCommunity Tech Alliance is a group of progressive technologists and strategists formed to provide data infrastructure building blocks to the progressive ecosystem at a low cost. CTA seeks to uplevel program impact by unlocking the potential of data, using software and data engineering, and removing the barriers to entry. We are a small team of engineers, data practitioners, product managers, and strategists looking to create infrastructure for progressive change.Community Tech Alliance Believes Strongly ThatInclusive teams are strongest, and supportive work environments take investment, intentionality, and opennessEmpathy is the cornerstone of building smart technology solutionsAll team members should take ownership of the project and team’s developmentIteration is key, and smart solutions require action not perfectionNothing great has been built without making mistakes and learning from themJob requirementsAs An Infrastructure Engineer, You ShouldWork to solve pressing infrastructure challenges, keeping in mind the productivity of engineers and customersHave a high level of confidence when making changes with complex networking and IAM environmentsDeliver a “secure by default” experience for our clientHave experience working with cloud-based infrastructure projects with multiple engineers or contributorsHave experience working in or administering a popular data warehouse, like Redshift, Vertica, BigQuery, or SnowflakeAlways be thinking about tooling to improve the developer experienceBe considering how to communicate infrastructure performance, status, and cost We Use Things LikePython, SQL, and Docker run in Google Compute Engine or Kubernetes EnginePulumi, Puppet, HashiCorp Terraform and open-source build and testing toolingGoogle Cloud Platform (too many individual services and APIs to name!)Windmill, Rundeck, and other cloud-hosted tools that allow us to run an efficient remote team and solve problems quickly and without a lot of overheadWe don’t expect every applicant to know or have worked with every technology we’ve listed, so we urge you to apply if you’re interested and some of the above apply to you! We’re looking for engineers of all levels and hiring for the people over the position above all else.Physical DemandsThe Physical Demands Here Represent Those That An Employee Must Meet To Perform The Essential Functions Of This Job Successfully. Reasonable Accommodations May Be Made To Enable Individuals With Disabilities To Perform The Essential FunctionsAbility to sit at a computer monitor for extended periods of timeOccasional travel to Washington, D.C. Salary And BenefitsSalary is between $150/yr and $170/yr, commensurate with experience.Community Tech Alliance provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.