Data Center Operations Engineer
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SendGrid is looking for a talented and passionate individual to help manage our world-class SaaS email delivery infrastructure. They will be instrumental in helping grow our data center infrastructure to keep pace with its controlled yet considerable growth. As a Data Center Operations Engineer you will play a key role in ensuring SendGrid IT's core infrastructure effectively meets the demands of our client base. This position includes duties in the areas of enterprise systems design, deployment, maintenance, support, and scaling. Data Center Operations Engineers are required to work both at our offices and at data center locations in Las Vegas and Chicago as required.
What You’ll Do
- Take personal responsibility for the availability and reliability of our data center infrastructure
- Use configuration management tools to automate SendGrid infrastructure intake and provisioning
- Identify key system metrics and ensure adequate monitoring coverage for new and existing services
- Work on our server image configurations, collaborating with core server engineers to optimize for task performance, reliability, failover and scale
- We're an agile, fast growing company and this job description isn't meant to be a complete list of your qualifications or all the things you'll do
About You
- You have the passion to "do data center infrastructure right"
- A minimum of 3 years of Linux system administration experience
- A minimum of 2 years experience using configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc)
- A minimum of 2 years experience maintaining large-scale, multi-data center infrastructure deployments
- Experience racking, cabling, installing and maintaining servers, switches, firewalls, PDUs and other data center equipment
- Experience with virtualization systems: KVM, QEMU, etc.
- Strong familiarity with TCP/IP networking with experience in BGP-based environments preferred
- Very strong organizational skills with an eye for detail
- Computer Science / Engineering degree or equivalent experience
- A distributed systems foundation and a service-oriented mindset
- You've "carried the pager" before (ideally at both a startup and a large infrastructure provider) & have first-hand experience with what happens when infrastructure / tools fail
- You work well independently and are motivated by making and meeting commitments
- You have great communication skills
- You are able to travel between 50-70% of the time
- You are able to lift up to 60lbs
SendGrid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.
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