Infrastructure Engineer

Job Overview

Are you a strong coder who loves automating systems so you only need to do anything just once? Are you motivated by the idea of working for a non-profit that’s working on AI for the common good? If so, our infrastructure team is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer who thrives both independently and as part of a collaborative team. In this role, you’ll work closely with our IT help desk team to identify opportunities for automation to keep our company running smoothly. If you enjoy taking initiative, learning on the fly, and making a real impact, we want you on our team.

Key Responsibilities

• Integrating software subscriptions with Okta for seamless user management
• Creating terraform configurations to for consistent management of GCP and AWS
• Building and deploying software that monitors for security vulnerabilities
• Investing in infrastructure to aggregate costs across all our services into a consistent format
• Deploying automation to audit user access across all of our software subscriptions
• Building and maintaining an automated pipeline for managing people, their accounts, and permissions

• Developing incident response automation, including auto-remediation workflows for common alerts
• Implementing backup and disaster recovery automation across critical systems and data stores

Required Qualifications

• Excellent communication, customer service, and problem-solving skills
• 5+ years of experience in IT or software development, with at least 3 years of experience focusing primarily on automation.
• Strong coding ability in a language such as Python
• Familiarity with using GitHub to organize code, and GitHub Actions for automation.
• Experience with specific IT automation tools, such as Terraform, Kandji/Iru, and Okta
• Experience administering and supporting major cloud providers such as AWS and Google Cloud
• Demonstrated knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Proven ability to collaborate with non-technical departments to translate business requirements into automated solutions
• Strong documentation experience with a focus on clear runbooks and end-user guides
• Familiarity with SAML and SCIM for identity and access management

Bonus Qualifications

• A background in cybersecurity
• Hands on experience supporting security and compliance audits

About Ai2

Ai2 is a Seattle based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen. Our mission is building breakthrough AI to solve the world’s biggest problems. We develop foundational AI research and innovation to deliver real-world impact through large-scale open models, data, robotics, conservation, and beyond.

Benefits

• Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, and an employee assistance program.
• Team members are able to enroll in our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• Team members are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
• Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses and can participate in the long-term incentive plan.