What are the responsibilities and job description for the Infrastructure Engineer position at Ascent?
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About Us
We are Ascent! and we help our customers solve problems, elevate, and do existing things better. We are on a mission to help our customers connect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinary outcomes. You could say we are a digital transformation business.
We specialize in software product development, analytics, data science, IoT solutions, machine learning, DevOps optimization, and modernization of applications, data, and platforms.
We work with incredible clients in all types of industries such as smart home devices, space exploration, beer manufacturing, finance, ecology, and logistics. We work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses and we employ the sharpest minds too!
About the Role
We are excited to find our next new exceptional employee to join Ascent, please note this role is in need of someone who can start asap.
As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a critical role in supporting, automating, and maintaining our cloud and DevOps infrastructure. You will work with cutting-edge technologies to design, configure, and monitor network infrastructure while ensuring high availability and security compliance. Your expertise will drive the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems as you collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust solutions.
Responsibilities
- Support and automate existing infrastructure provisioning using PowerShell, ARM templates, and Terraform.
- Maintain and support existing application and DevOps infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot cloud services, conduct analyses, and resolve issues.
- Apply and enforce operational and security measures in compliance with customer´s MR guidelines.
- Monitor cloud and DevOps infrastructure to ensure optimal performance and availability.
- Design and configure network infrastructure to meet business needs.
- Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to improve system reliability.
- Develop and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines to support CI/CD processes.
- Participate in roll-out activities and new infrastructure deployments.
- Create and update comprehensive infrastructure documentation.
What You Will Bring
- Proficiency in YAML, PowerShell, and ARM templates. Terraform would be beneficial
- Experience with Azure IaaS and PaaS (App Services, Application Gateway, Azure Firewall, Routing, API Management).
- Understanding of distributed systems, Windows Server administration, Azure Policies, and redundancy (e.g., geo-redundancy).
- Familiarity with infrastructure visualization tools.
- Knowledge of OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Azure Entra ID, and basic SQL.
- Experience with Linux, Kusto Query Language, Gremlin Query Language, and Pester.
- Knowledge of SaaS, Azure Active Directory (AAD), Managed Identities, Azure Artifacts, and Desired State Configuration (DSC).
- Development Toolchain and CI/CD
- Proficiency in Azure DevOps, Git, Visual Studio Code, and REST clients.
- Operating Systems and Cloud Platforms.
- Experience working in Agile and Scrum methodologies.
Working with Ascent
At Ascent we promote a healthy work-life balance by offering flexibility in where you work. We also promote well-being and provide access to Well Being Coaches.
Your development and learning will be taken seriously, and we’ll support your professional development with training and certification, with regular feedback and review. It is a fun, supportive and modern workplace where we really live by our company values of Empathy, Energy and Audacity! Ascent also offers a variety of benefits in each of our countries.
Ascent is an equal opportunities employee. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favorably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.
If you have any questions contact our Talent Acquisition team on ta.admin@ascent.io.
For more details about life at Ascent, check out our Life Page here.
