Senior Terraform Infrastructure Engineer for Observability Stack Setup

Northbay Systems

Contract · Remote · Flexible hours

About the role

Northbay Systems is launching a performance and reliability overhaul of its flagship customer‑facing platform. As a Terraform Infrastructure Engineer you will lead the infrastructure redesign for the new "PulseGuard" module, ensuring fast, resilient service delivery across multiple AWS regions.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement Terraform code to provision a multi‑AZ VPC, subnets, and security groups for PulseGuard.
• Integrate AWS Auto Scaling groups and Application Load Balancers to meet latency targets under peak load.
• Migrate legacy CloudFormation stacks to Terraform, preserving state and minimizing downtime.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions that run Terraform plan/apply with automated policy checks.
• Implement monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards to track latency, error rates, and infrastructure health.
• Conduct performance testing using k6 and refine infrastructure based on results.

Must-have skills

• 5+ years Terraform experience, including modules and state management.
• Deep knowledge of AWS services (EC2, RDS, ALB, VPC, IAM).
• Strong DevOps background with Docker containerization and CI/CD tooling.
• Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python) for automation and testing.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and alerting.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Kubernetes deployments on EKS.
• Knowledge of chaos engineering tools for reliability testing.