BarkleyOKRP - Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Requirements
• Practical experience with Google Cloud Platform and managed services, including operational databases (Cloud SQL) and data warehousing platforms (BigQuery). • Production experience architecting and running containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes to support new product stacks. • Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform) and modern CI/CD deployment workflows. • Calm under pressure: A methodical, safety-first approach to live-site incident response. • Pragmatic problem solver: You understand the realities of legacy software and prefer practical, stable solutions over chasing unproven tech fads. • Strong communication skills to collaborate with developers and stakeholders during high-stakes migrations or outages. • Familiarity with Java development, enabling you to read application code, assist developers with debugging, or understand internal stack traces more deeply. • Experience with transitioning legacy tech stacks to modern GCP / cloud-native setups. • The annual gross base salary range is $90,000 - $150,000USD. This range represents the anticipated target salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and are based on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and geographic location. Salary is one component of BarkleyOKRP's total compensation package, which includes multiple health insurance options, flexible PTO, life insurance, and 401K. • BarkleyOKRP’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion + Belonging • At BarkleyOKRP, DEI+B drives work that matters. We believe people and creativity are made of the same substance, and when every perspective is valued, the impact is stronger. We build belonging as a business strategy, power inclusive creativity that delivers measurable results, and hold ourselves accountable as a B Corp committed to progress over performative intent. When people are valued, the work carries greater impact.
Responsibilities
• Incident Response & Operational Stability: Own the incident management lifecycle for production. Triage alerts, troubleshoot OS-level bottlenecks, debug performance issues, and drive rapid root-cause analysis. • Performance Monitoring & Debugging: Actively monitor system performance, application logs, and resource health using modern observability platforms (such as Observe by Snowflake) to quickly diagnose and resolve operational issues. • Legacy Infrastructure Management: Proactively maintain, patch, and secure our existing virtual machines on GCP. • Legacy Database Operations & Health: Monitor MySQL 5.7 instances, manage backups, and troubleshoot connection pool exhaustion or locking issues. • Cloud Architecture & Modernization: Collaborate to design, provision, and scale forward-looking cloud infrastructure for our new products and services, incorporating modern cloud-native tools and managed services (such as Cloud SQL and BigQuery). • Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Gradually replace manual operational tasks with clean automation scripts and infrastructure tools to reduce toil and improve repeatability. • Security & Compliance: Ensure systems comply with enterprise security baselines through rigorous OS hardening, access controls, and vulnerability patching. • Qualificiations: • Experience: 5+ years in a System Administration, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Operations role within an enterprise environment. • Legacy Stack Mastery: • Deep expertise in Linux administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting (including storage and file system management, specifically ZFS). • Proven experience running, tuning, and debugging Java/Tomcat applications in production. • Strong working knowledge of MySQL 5.7, including query tuning, replication, backup/restore strategies, and migration troubleshooting. • Proficiency in shell scripting and writing lightweight automation (Bash)
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