Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Are you a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer that has a passion for building reliable systems that scale? Are you an advocate for system reliability, observability, and security? Do you thrive in collaborative environments, viewing engineering as a collective effort? Are you motivated by team success? If so, continue reading…

I am on a mission to build and strengthen our engineering teams to match the accelerating success of Street Context. We provide a premium Email, Analytics and Broker Relationship platform, purpose-built for capital markets and institutional investors. Street Context has charted a course to:

1. Scale our system to meet increasing global demand
2. Meet regulatory compliance requirements in new regional markets
3. Productionalize and roll-out new market-validated features

• You have strong AWS experience: You have worked with developers to meet their infrastructure needs in an AWS environment. You have experience with different types of system topologies, including monolithic applications, and event-driven microservices. You have the expertise to provide insight into issues that could arise from specific architectures and AWS services.
• You have strong Terraform experience: You have worked with Terraform for over 3 years. You can read, understand, change and improve existing Terraform code. You can leverage existing Terraform registry repos, especially concerning event-driven architectures.
• You can drive value from observability tools: You can leverage Datadog and other tools or strategies to reduce MTTR.
• You are security conscious: You promote least-privilege. You understand privilege escalation, IAMs, conditionals, AWS SSO and SAML Integration. You know Okta. You empower teams to monitor their systems for vulnerabilities.
• You focus on building trust: You can become a trusted member of the scrum team and provide value within the first sprint.
• You are dynamic: You embrace change. You can "wear many hats" and excel at serving internal customers.
• Most importantly, you empower developers: You empower teams through education, tooling, access and mentorship. This frees you to focus on solving tough cloud engineering problems.

• 3+ years of Terraform experience.
• 3+ years of Datadog experience, and your experience must be recent and include infrastructure, security, APM, and logging.
• 5+ years of AWS experience, leveraging the common services as well as exposure to event-driven solutions.
• 10+ years of IT industry experience.
• You've come up through various roles, having worked with virtualization, Linux, middleware, Java stacks and been exposed to multiple technology stacks and solutions.

Finally, in-office collaboration is integral to our team dynamic and company culture. We seek candidates who will enthusiastically embrace this aspect of our work environment, valuing the opportunities it presents for team bonding, collaboration, and innovation.

I am personally looking forward to connecting with you! Apply now to continue our conversation and learn how you can become part of the Street Context team. Also, I am open to informal introductions at any tech Meetups in Toronto. I’ll let you know which ones I will be attending via LinkedIn. I invite you to follow me to keep up-to-date.

Take-care,

Matthew Hilchie

Head of Engineering @ Street Context

streetcontext.com • linkedin.com/in/matthilchie/

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion @ Street Context

Street Context is an equal-opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, colour, race, citizenship, ethnic origin, place of origin, creed, disability, family status, marital status, gender identity and gender expression, receipt of public assistance, record of offences, sex or sexual orientation.

To that end, Street Context is committed to making our recruitment processes as accessible as possible including providing accommodations during the recruitment and hiring process as required. Upon request, Street Context will consult with applicants to provide or arrange for suitable accommodation.