SMASH, Who we are?

We are agents for tech professionals in Costa Rica and Colombia that help them build careers in the United States.

We believe in long-lasting relationships with our talent. We invest time getting to know them and understanding what they are looking for as their professional next step.
We aim to find the perfect match. As agents, we pair our talent with our US clients, not only by their technical skills but as a cultural fit. Our core competency is to find the right talent, fast.
We purposefully move away from the “contractor” or “outsourcing” type of relationship. Our clients don’t want contractors or “just a service.” Neither does our talent.

Our Benefits

Work from everywhere within Costa Rica
Private Medical Insurance
English Academy for Employees and Relative
Business Skills Coach – Certifications
Discounts with Tech Universities
Events and additional Perks

This position is Remote to work with a US Company; you will be required to have Citizenship or a work permit from Costa Rica or Colombia to apply for this role

Job Description:

The CPE team (Cloud & Platform Engineering) provides platform services to Lakeshore's product teams. We support software development teams with CICD solutions for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring software in different Lakeshore environments. We are looking for someone who has experience creating gitops workflows for teams to enable them to be self-sustaining while providing guardrails to keep within organizational boundaries.

Skills We Are Looking For:

CICD: Experience in software delivery through pipeline automation using cloud-hosted and cloud-platform solutions.
Cloud: Experience in managing and maintaining AWS cloud environments.
Containerized Platforms: Building, automating and deploying containerized applications using container orchestration services focused on serverless aws offerings.
IAC/CasC: Provisioning infrastructure and services using Infrastructure As Code (IAC) and Configuration As Code (CasC) principals. We are looking for something very strong in Terraform to help our team build reusable modules we can power behind GitHub Actions to enable product teams to self-support their own products.
Logging & Monitoring: Monitoring of business-critical applications using Security information and event management (SEIM) and logging platforms.
GIT: Good understanding of Git branching and merging strategies geared toward providing platform solutions enabled by gitops workflows

Preferred Tooling:

Cloud Systems:

AWS (Required)

Programming Languages:

Interpreted Languages Bash, Python, etc

CI/CD:

GitHub Actions
AWS Amplify
AWS Code Deploy
Automation and IAC:
Terraform (Required)
Ansible

Container Technologies & Orchestration:

AWS Serverless Platforms

Secrets Management:

Vault
AWS Secrets Manager a & Parameter Stores
GH native Secrets Management

Monitoring & Alerting:

Opensearch
New Relic

Other:

Hashicorp Products (Packer, Cons
Pagerduty Workflows
Open Policy Agent

Cloud & Platform Engineer C-476