Infrastructure Engineer

How You’ll Make an Impact:  
We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer to join our team at Strata Decision Technology. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing infrastructure systems that enable the reliability and performance of our technology platforms supporting SaaS applications. You will play a critical role in ensuring the platforms and systems maintain high availability, scalability, and resilience. With a strong foundation in infrastructure engineering, you will focus on proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization to achieve maximum uptime and performance. Collaborating with diverse teams, you will ensure our systems consistently meet and exceed expectations. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• System Support: 

• • Work closely with Infrastructure, DevOps, and Cloud teams to optimize performance and streamline application deployment processes. 

• • Drive reliability engineering practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident management, capacity planning, and disaster recovery. 

• • Automate infrastructure deployments, upgrades, and maintenance tasks using tools like Ansible and Terraform. 

• Documentation and Best Practices: 

• • Develop and maintain system architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures, and runbooks. 

• • Create and update best practices documentation for team members and cross-functional teams. 

• Performance Monitoring & Optimization: 

• • Conduct system and application performance analysis using monitoring tools, logging systems, and other relevant metrics to identify and resolve issues. 

• • Optimize overall system performance by leveraging insights and ensuring that systems are meeting performance benchmarks. 

• Collaboration & Strategic Vision: 

• • Collaborate with the Manager of Infrastructure and the Sr. Director of IT to define, implement, and execute long-term strategic goals for applications and infrastructure. 

• Engineering Team Support: 

• • Focus on supporting Engineering Teams from an Infrastructure perspective, ensuring smooth operations and efficient workflows. 

What we’re looking for:  

• 2+ years of experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation). 

• 2+ years of experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. 

• 2+ years of experience with at least one configuration management tool such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, or Chef. 
• 1+ years of experience with incident management, performance monitoring, and capacity planning tools. 

Estimated Salary Range: $95,000 - $120,000

Actual salary will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, skill set and level of experience. This salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Strata also provides discretionary variable pay programs based on role. In addition, Strata provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits, health and welfare benefits, paid time off, parental leave, life and accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits.

Find out more about Strata benefits here.  

How we work:
The preferred location for this role is in Chicago, IL or St. Louis, MO. We value our people spending time together and have campuses hosting in-person events located in both cities. We are truly a hybrid environment with all team members experiencing the flexibility to work from home. 

Thinking about applying?  
Research shows that women and underrepresented groups tend to apply to jobs only when they check every box on a job posting. If you’re currently reading this and hesitating to click “Apply” for that reason, we encourage you to go for it! A true passion and excitement for making an impact is just as important as work experience.

Should you require a reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please reach out to careers@stratadecision.com. 

Here @ Strata… 
Our culture is driven by our people solving problems together. We embrace learning, collaboration, and continuous career growth. Together, we lift our customers, our products, our company, and our community.  

We believe that each of our team member’s unique perspectives and experiences is what drives innovation and positive change. Our individual differences are what make us a more forward-thinking organization. We foster a culture of inclusion, equity and belonging, regardless of race, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.  

Our Core Values:
While we celebrate what makes each member of our team unique, our core values are what connect us. They set clear expectations for how we approach our work and how each of us can positively influence the experience of our team and our customers.

• We connect with positive intent.
• We are helpful.
• We own it.
• We get better every day.
• We are humble.