Terraform Engineer
Hundreds of petabytes of storage; hundreds of terabytes of RAM; hundreds of gigabits of network connectivity. Do you have what it takes to help our team wrangle the infrastructure required to scale to this level using Terraform and Go?
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 customers who need infrastructure at significant scale, driving those economies of scale to benefit our service provider and enterprise customers.
We are seeking a sharp Terraform Engineer who can help us significantly advance our capabilities by automating most, if not all, of our infrastructure deployment, configuration, and management.
Job Summary:
Can create Terraform providers and/or use Terraform to automate the on-going configuration and creation of physical and virtual: switches, storage systems, virtual machines, and other infrastructure
Create multi-cloud configurations spanning network, storage and compute workloads.
Have strong understanding of Restful, Soap and other remote communication technologies
Understands how to use Git
Desired Qualifications:
Enjoys eliminating manual labor with code
Drives for consensus on solution acceptance criteria with stakeholders and is self-motivated to push the entire team towards an excellent technical outcome
Comfortable being part of a high-performance team working hard to overcome big challenges on tight timelines
Passionate about writing clean, well tested, and maintainable code
Enjoys and contributes to a high-communication environment
Experience with Terraform and Go or other similar technology
Experience with virtualization and/or cloud technologies
Familiarity with the OSI Model
Bias toward engineering “hardened” code that strongly checks assertions and fails loudly and gracefully, if it must fail
BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or a related field or equivalent experience