Sr. DevOps Engineer
Massive private cloud nodes. Smart, tech-savvy clients. Intense challenges and amazing opportunities. Can you build the private, hybrid-, and multi-cloud services of tomorrow?
Faction, Inc. is a leader in deploying cloud infrastructure at scale. We are a profitable, venture-backed, rapidly-growing provider of private, hybrid-, and multi-cloud infrastructure. We design and deploy compute, storage, networking, and services for clients who need infrastructure at significant scale, driving those economies of scale to benefit our service provider and enterprise clients. We consult with our client on a variety of cloud migration and transformation efforts, and assist them in making the most of cloud infrastructure with a variety of managed services.
We are seeking a strong Sr. DevOps Engineer candidate to build out new products and services, and engineer improvements to existing services.
Job Summary:
Work in the product team across the design and transition of services to build services and help service operations and engineering successfully operate the services
Create “glue code” and systems to integrate the Faction CMDB, vendor systems, and operations team processes
Build and test proof of concepts for durability, reliability, performance, and vendor capability validation
Train into the engineering and service operations team to transfer information when handing off from product
Write key documentation, including as-built architecture documents, implementation documentation, runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, etc
Act as an additional SME during critical support escalations
Desired Qualifications:
Enjoys rapidly mastering new technologies
Broad and deep technology mastery with experience across systems, network, and storage, with a very deep knowledge in at least one area
Strong expertise with VMware technologies
Experience with Amazon Web Services; other major public clouds a plus
Experience documenting aspects of a platform or service for operations
Experience in a multi-tenant environment, whether at a service provider or a line-of-business-oriented enterprise
Experience with “at scale” design and engineering in the 10,000+ host / multi-petabyte storage environments, and understanding of the principles of scalable systems
Comfortable being part of a high-performance team working hard to overcome big challenges on tight timelines while maintaining work-life balance
Enjoys a transparent, high-communication environment
Experience with developing for operations; Ansible/Puppet/BASH/Python/Perl/Ruby/etc
BS in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or a related field or equivalent experience