Mendix
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Mendix is a low-code app development platform:
First, what is low-code? Low-code is a visual approach to software development that enables you to abstract and automate every step of the application lifecycle. Gartner predicts that “by 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65% of application development activity.” Mendix is repeatedly ranked a Leader in analyst reports from Gartner and Forrester. In the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Multiexperience Development Platforms, Mendix placed at the very top of the Leaders quadrant.
Mendix, the global leader in enterprise low-code, was created to promote collaboration between Business & IT teams. Thousands of forward-thinking companies around the world like Ford Auto, Rabobank Netherlands, Zurich Insurance, and Red Bull, can unleash their best ideas faster with the help of the Mendix Platform.
Mendix is a Siemens Business:
Siemens is a Top 10 Global Software Company and a leader on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in the World! With the acquisition of Mendix in 2018, Siemens Digital Industries Software is driving transformation to enhance the digital enterprise where engineering, manufacturing and electronics meet the future of innovation. Mendix employees have the opportunity to work in a hyper-growth environment with the support of Siemens’ unbeatable market position and resources.
The role
In the role of Cloud Infrastructure Engineer you will be responsible for building, shipping, and maintaining complex infrastructure at scale. The Mendix Cloud hosts tens of thousands of mission-critical customer applications, powering anything from insurance quotes, to ensuring that PostNL can deliver millions of parcels on time.
Specifically, you will be part of the team running the core infrastructure powering the Mendix Public Cloud. The Mendix Public Cloud has 4 primary components:
- Compute - using CloudFoundry as a PaaS container orchestration, with AWS EC2 underneath
- Database - using AWS RDS
- Storage - Amazon S3
- Networking - Nginx on AWS Fargate
On top of this, there are various microservices, developed in house, that handle provisioning of these services, entitlement, and upgrades. These are written in Python and Golang.
The core infrastructure team is responsible for this infrastructure, spread across 10 production deployments across the globe, 24/7, with 4 nines of uptime. Our infrastructure is managed using Terraform (for IaC), Concourse CI (for CloudFoundry deployments), GitLab CI and Jenkins (CI for our microservices), and monitored using Prometheus and Datadog.
We're looking for you if:
- You are either a strong programmer with good knowledge of infrastructure, or a strong infrastructure engineer who can also code when needed.
- You have extensive and deep experience (~5 years) with IaaS Cloud Providers. AWS is ideal, but GCP/Azure would be fine too.
- You have strong programming experience with (ideally) Python or Golang (5+ years).
- You have experience with running cloud orchestration technologies like Cloud Foundry and/or Kubernetes, and designing highly resilient architectures for these.
- You have strong knowledge of Unix/Linux fundamentals.
- You have experience with infrastructure as code tools. Ideally Terraform, but CloudFormation or Pulumi are fine too.
- You have a DevOps mindset: you build it, you run it.
- You care about code quality, and know how to lead by example: from a clean Git history, to well thought-out unit and integration tests.
- You are willing and able to use your technical expertise to mentor, train, and lead other engineers.
Even better (but not essential!) if you have experience with:
- Mendix’s low code platform - this is a huge plus, but not a requirement.
- CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Concourse CI
- Open Service Broker APIs
- Cloud Native Buildpacks
- Networking fundamentals (subnets, VPN, VPCs, security groups, NATs, etc)
- Monitoring tools that we use, such as Datadog and Prometheus
You’ll help drive digital innovation by:
- Moving to the most recent technology - moving to CloudFoundry on Kubernetes
- Continually improving our security + operational excellence
- Rapidly scaling our infrastructure to match our rapidly increasing customer base
- Continuously improving the observability of our platform, so that we can fix problems before they occur
- Improving our automation and surrounding tooling to further streamline deployments + platform upgrade
- Improving the way we use AWS resources, and defining cost optimization strategies.
Here are many of the tools we make use of:
- Amazon Web Services (EC2, Fargate, RDS, S3, ELB, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, IAM, and more !)
- PaaS: (Open Source) Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Docker, Open Service Broker API
- Monitoring: Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana, Datadog
- CI/CD: Concourse CI, Jenkins, GitLab CI
- Automation: BOSH, Terraform, Helm
- Programming languages: mostly Python and Golang, with a sprinkling of Ruby and Lua
- Scripting: Bash, Python
- Version Control: Git + GitLab
- Database: PostgreSQL
- Webserver: nginx
Working for Mendix and with our Customers means your reliability has to be beyond any doubt, and therefore every employment is subject to a onboarding screening and the condition precedent a Certificate of Conduct is provided that demonstrates you did not commit any offences that are relevant to the performance of your function.
Mendix is a low-code application development platform that accelerates the creation and deployment of enterprise software by bridging the gap between business users and developers. Our platform emphasizes visual modeling, allowing organizations to modernize operations and enhance production efficiency with ease.
- Founded
- Founded 2005
- Employees
- 201-500 employees
- Industry
- Internet Software & Services
- Total raised
- $34M raised
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer