Staff Engineer, Equinix
Platform Infrastructure Engineering
Digital infrastructure company
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Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have strong experience, but most importantly a passion, to deliver efficient, automated, on-demand platform services globally at scale. Able to leverage FOSS options to solve problems, as well as commercial offerings
- They will operate as an independent technical leader and mentor to the team, and work with both the team and internal stakeholders, following agile practices, to analyse requirements and develop solutions
- Strong systems and software troubleshooting ability is a must
- Experience working with distributed systems
- Deep Linux systems proficiency is a must
- Experience with virtualisation and containerisation (QEMU, KVM, LXC, containerd, docker)
- Experience managing on-prem Linux-based server infrastructure at scale with Configuration Management tools such as, but not limited to, Puppet or Ansible
- Experience with delivering Kubernetes infrastructure at scale and/or delivering and operating applications on Kubernetes infrastructure. Our Kubernetes infrastructure is 100% vanilla, built upon FOSS components as well as our own bespoke tailoring
- Experience developing software and scripting for systems and/or applications. We primarily use Go, Perl, Java and Shell scripting
- Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Experience with Secrets Management processes and tooling, such as Hashicorp Vault
- Experience with Monitoring and Observability of Applications, Infrastructure, and Networks (gNMI, BMP, SNMP, Syslog, Telegraf, etc)
- Experience with CI / CD and VCS tooling (Jenkins, Gitea, ArgoCD)
- Experience with Networking and Routing is desirable
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join our highly skilled team of Platform and Infrastructure Engineers supporting a geo-distributed server and Linux-based cloud platform (PaaS) infrastructure critical to the delivery and operations of Equinix's Digital Services
- Contribute to the development and operational support our geo-distributed telemetry collection, aggregation and normalisation system for Product Networks
- Support internal platform customers with on-boarding applications and tools to the Kubernetes platform infrastructure
- Suggest and develop improvements as well as carry out maintenance to the Kubernetes platform, CI/CD tools, and Observability systems
- Participate in an on-call / support rota to respond to critical production impacting incidents
- Suggest and implement improvements to existing manual processes promoting and enabling self-service for our internal customers
- Participate in design reviews and contribute to the development of software solutions
- Debug complex software and system issues and resolve performance bottlenecks
- Participate in bi-weekly sprint planning and weekly scrum meetings
- Take ownership of the root-cause analysis of identified problems, participating in Incident reviews to analyse the problem and work with the team to develop a long term solution
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Equinix employees receive excellent health care and counseling plans that vary by country to ensure the well-being of you and your family. We offer paid vacations and holidays and encourage community involvement year-round via volunteer opportunities
- Spending time with your loved ones and taking care of your family are important. Equinix provides a range of country-specific programs that ensure you have the resources needed to thrive and manage your family’s needs
- Equinix offers different programs to help you build your financial security, make charitable donations and seek additional education. In many countries we also offer a flexible employee stock purchase plan
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Charles Meyers
(President & CEO (Not Founder))Former Senior Associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton, President and COO at BellSouth.net, and VP of Business and Corp Development at Internet Security Systems. Before becoming CEO of Equinix, they were a Senior Technology Executive and Fitness Entrepreneur at Life Restorations LLC and Group President of Messaging and Mobile Media at VeriSign.
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