Infrastructure Architect
KEY DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Liaison with existing hosting and network vendors at various levels of detail. Partner with them as-needed to improve their processes, monitoring, capacity planning, and any other details as determined or communicated by engineers
- Act as the project and technical lead for major infrastructure projects such as datacenter build-outs
- Evaluate and determine hardware and software standards (including vendor) for servers, systems integrators, network hardware, external DNS, CDN, etc.
- Track infrastructure budget and spend. Drive appropriate changes to improve cost efficiency
- Monitor the capacity of worldwide serving and data systems. Continually improve capacity measurement
- Along with the rest of the ops team, investigate production alerts as appropriate and solve for both the short and long term
- Work with developers and product owners to advocate for operational improvements in our software stack
- Troubleshoot, investigate, and fix production issues in cloud and hosted environments, including both hardware and internal software issues
- Design and build features to improve systems and personnel scalability
- Participate as an escalation point in an on-call rotation related to core infrastructure
- Design and implement tools, standards, vendors, and processes for in-house physical server management, such as supply chain logistics, spares inventory, and hardware repair
- Help to bootstrap a network engineering team and work closely alongside them for all aspects of global network management and scaling
- Design and improve core services such as system imaging (pxeboot), DHCP, DNS, or virtualization
- 5+ years in an infrastructure or operational role (DevOps, system engineer/administration, SRE, network engineer, etc.)
- Experience with configuration management software such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or other types of tools such as Consul
- Big plus if you are familiar with and passionate about next-gen infrastructure scheduling software such as Mesos, Kubernetes, Docker / Swarm, or CoreOS
- Deep experience with physical datacenter infrastructure (such as hardware load balancers, imaging systems, out of band management, DNS)
- Experience working with appropriate vendors to bootstrap a new physical environment: co-location, cabling, network and systems integrators, etc.
- Experience with power and cooling planning and design for physical footprints
- Ability to code in at least one language
- Knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals is required. Intermediate network engineering experience is a big plus
- Experience managing a hybrid Windows and Linux environment, or a willingness to learn one of these platforms
- Experience with agile methodologies and a rapid development cycle
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs
- Ability to travel occasionally as needed
- A desire to seek out needless complexity and remove it
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