Junior Systems Engineer/Security Engineer

Proekep is seeking a junior cloud/security engineer for a messaging platform that is experiencing rapid growth in the construction industry. This engineer will focus on improving our existing infrastructure and reducing our security risk surface along with handling general devops/cloud engineering tasks.

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate who wants to grow with an established and profitable startup company!

About Prokeep

Prokeep is a software company that has developed a messaging platform for the $100+ billion wholesale distribution market (i.e. plumbing, electrical, HVAC, etc). We are post product, post revenue, and growing fast in the US and Canada. Our team is small, nimble, and devoted to making our customers' lives easier with simple to use technology. We envision a world where distributors using our tools are more efficient and able to build stronger relationships with their customers.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a dedicated junior systems engineer who is excited to make significant contributions to our integrated stack, data layer, and overall performance, security, and reliability. You will be primarily focused on building out our SOC 2 compliance stack including SSO, MFA, and data security, as well as cloud engineering. We are a small and highly collaborative team, so from time to time you may also take a diversion into other adjacent tech realms. You don't have to be an expert with all the tools in our stack, but an interest in working on projects at all levels of the stack will be helpful as we expand the breadth of our platform. You should have strong opinions about tools and architecture, but should also be able to explain those opinions persuasively, not abrasively. You should take pride in writing performant, logically structured, readable code, but also be pragmatic enough to realize that sometimes shipped projects or systems are better than perfect projects or systems. Some training will be provided.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience working as a cloud, systems, or IT engineer.
• We will consider recent graduates in a related technical field for the right candidates
• General system infrastructure maintenance and improvement
• Shell scripting
• Linux system administration
• Docker experience
• AWS services: CloudFront, ALB, IAM, ECS, Lambda
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Experience working in a geographically distributed team
• Desire to collaborate with other developers and ability to communicate over various channels (email, phone, Slack, Google Hangouts, etc.)

Ideal Skills and Experience (Stuff you will learn)

• SOC 2 compliance
• Google MFA
• MFA/SSO
• Athena/Glue Data Lake
• AWS WAF
• Terraform

Working Relationship

This is a full-time salaried position starting immediately. At this time we can only hire US based full-time employees and cannot consider consultants or contractors. This is a remote work opportunity, but you should be able to work core hours in U.S. pacific time. Prokeep offers our engineering staff an options package, home office/equipment stipend, education stipend, health insurance, life insurance, dental and vision insurance, as well as unlimited PTO.