Infrastructure Engineer - Contract - Hybrid

Job summary

Pelmorex is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer - Meteorological Development for a contract role until February 2027. This role combines infrastructure engineering, platform reliability, and software development to deliver highly available, scalable, and high-performance systems. The engineer will work in a modern cloud-native environment, designing and operating distributed systems on Kubernetes and AWS ECS, and ensuring system reliability through Linux-based operations and observability tooling.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes across platforms such as CloudStack, Proxmox, EKS & GKE.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and infrastructure technologies including AWS, GCP, CloudStack, and Proxmox.
• Experience with core networking concepts including TCP/IP, NAT, DNS, load balancing, and firewalls.
• Strong experience building and supporting production-grade distributed systems in Linux environments.
• Experience developing production applications in one or more of the following languages: Go, Python, C/C++, or Rust.
• Strong scripting and infrastructure automation experience using technologies such as Python, Bash, Terraform, Helm, Terragrunt, Groovy, or JavaScript.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and performance optimization concepts.
• Experience designing and supporting highly available, scalable systems handling large volumes of data.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including caching technologies such as Redis or AWS ElastiCache.
• Experience with CI/CD practices and tools such as Jenkins or similar platforms.
• Experience building and consuming REST-based APIs and services.
• Familiarity with security best practices and secure infrastructure design principles.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Jaeger and Kiali.
• Understanding of cloud cost optimization, including balancing performance, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills with the ability to gather requirements, whiteboard solutions, and collaborate effectively across teams.
• Experienced in maintaining operational runbooks, automation playbooks, and reliable cloud infrastructure procedures for production systems.
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure or platforms is considered an asset.
• Keen interest in data and data mining, problem solving.
• Experience with spatiotemporal data sets and scientific data formats including netCDF, HDF, GRIB and BUFR is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate distributed systems on Kubernetes (AWS EKS & GCP GKE) with Istio service mesh and AWS ECS using Docker containers, infrastructure as code (Terraform & Terragrunt), and GitOps/CI/CD pipelines (on Jenkins).
• Work across AWS and/or GCP services.
• Manage application delivery with Helm.
• Support stateful and caching layers such as Redis (AWS Elasticache).
• Ensure system reliability through Linux-based operations and observability tooling including Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, ElasticSearch, Jaeger and Kiali.
• Implement and maintain playbooks and runbooks using bash scripts and Ansible.
• Work closely with technical leads, developers, operations teams, and infrastructure administrators.
• Modernize and standardize infrastructure through automation, observability, and cloud/platform engineering best practices.
• Ensure platform stability, scalability, security, and operational excellence across critical meteorological systems and data pipelines.
• Provide support to Pelmorex’s meteorological infrastructure and platforms that power The Weather Network, MeteoMedia, ElTiempo.es, and subsidiaries.
• Design and implement Meteorological infrastructure core services running under Kubernetes (AWS EKS) with Istio Service mesh, EC2 instances, ECS Clusters and deployed under Jenkins CI/CD pipeline via Helm, SSM and bash deployment scripts.
• Improve monitoring systems running under Prometheus, Grafana and Kibana.
• Use AI-assisted development tools and workflows to improve productivity, accelerate delivery, enhance code quality, support troubleshooting, and streamline operational tasks while maintaining quality and accountability.
• Provide technical advice and produce effort estimates on required work; execute work based on priorities.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure all systems function as intended and without impediment to existing products or processes.
• Develop and/or integrate monitoring systems.
• Work with Technology Operations team to ensure end-to-end data monitoring in software design, from data acquisition to delivery.
• Use knowledge of databases and database technology to create distributed, multi-tier applications capable of servicing large volumes of data.
• Provide support to operational teams for production systems and ensure services stay available and stable.
• Maintain operational runbooks, automation playbooks, and reliable cloud infrastructure procedures for production systems.

Skills

Degrees

Contract length

Relocation