Who are we?
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 260 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.
Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams. We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.
Job Summary:
This position entails the development of greenfield platform services which authenticate and authorize provisioning APIs used for enabling various Equinix technology streams. An ideal candidate would have 7+ years’ experience in the Clojure programming language, familiarity with Identity Access Management, as well as an advanced understanding of building 99.999 reliability in an AWS cloud environment.
Responsibilities:
Software Architecture and Design
Collaborate on the design of a new IAM solution which integrates and coordinates with existing legacy systems to provide a seamless customer migration.
Create reliable deployment topologies and software designs which satisfies the 99.999 needs of our customers and application partners.
Development/Coding
Experience in Clojure or other LISP based language.
Ability to create written documentation describing complex systems and interactions with existing components
Focus on quality, with an emphasis on building solid unit tests
Understanding of modern IAM constructs such as ABAC, RBAC, Federation / SSO, OpenId Connect, and authoring access policies
DevOps
Experience building 99.999 reliability in an AWS environment
Ability to craft CI/CD workflows and deployments in Github
Act as reliable point of contact for periodic SRE duties with experience tracking failures across multiple cloud components
Customer/Stakeholder Engagement
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Ability to act as a consultant for internal and external stakeholders as they migrate to the new platform solutions
Customer focused with the ability to design systems and software increments which satisfy specific customer use cases
Qualifications:
· 7+ years experience
· Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.
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