Infrastructure Engineer

Our partner’s mission is to help people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them with data, inspiration and guidance to reach their goals.

You'll be instrumental in providing support and tooling that underpins a phenomenal and continually available user experience. Our customers are uploading their tracking data and viewing stats all the time, so site performance is essential to customer satisfaction.

You'll participate in engineering automation throughout our infrastructure, furthering our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platforms (puppet, ansible, terraform), increasing automation of internal services (python), enhancing our microservices platform (Aurora/Mesos), evangelizing and shepherding internal customers of these services (discovery, process, communication, documentation).

You'll enjoy a wide range of engineering challenges. Major components we use daily are Python, Ubuntu/Linux, Aurora/Mesos, Puppet, Terraform, Bazel, HAProxy, Nginx, Zookeeper, and Ansible.We utilize externally hosted bare metal servers, along with an increasing amount of cloud services. We favor coupling open source software with internal development to bridge gaps and achieve a highly performant system.

For our partner, a global company that is transforming the way the world sees health & fitness - we are looking for anInfrastructure Developer.

Daily tasks:

● Develop software automation and tooling to drive efficiencies and help us scale the core infrastructure that other services are built upon.

● Architect technical offerings, processes and documentation as we hand off services to other teams to operate and utilize.

● Shepherd internal customers on-boarding to our services, while ensuring we scale and remain competitive.

● Ensure that our services lifecycle and performance needs of our services are met and broadly visible .

● Be available for time sensitive needs, escalations, and periodic on-call responsibilities.

Strong understanding of industry trends 

As an Infrastructure Developer you need to have:

● You have 5+ years of experience in operations and automation supporting large scale data center or cloud environments.

● Proficient in Linux system administration and operational needs at scale (python, CM/IAC tools, linux and python packaging, build systems, CI/CD).

● You are able to code (python), automate recurring needs, utilize and develop APIs, find ways to automate tasks and continually improve how we do things.

● Presentation and collaboration proficiency, ability to move from ideas to identifying key needs and action steps.

● You design processes to drive efficiency and consistency.

● You enjoy analyzing metrics to arrive at supportable data- driven conclusions.

● Able to develop plans and strategies, incrementally moving things forward in manageable steps in an always-available environment.

● Comfortable communicating via video conferencing.

● Flexibility in working with geographically diverse team members.

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If you have:

The ability to communicate and develop a cross functional relationship with people of multicultural background and organizations based in different parts of the world

Good interpersonal, time management skills

Analytical thinking state of mind J

Curiosity and never stop learning skills

Proactive, self-motivating attitude and the ability to understand and convey complex information

Is a plus if you have:

● Exceptional communication and organization skills.

● You possess a detail- oriented mind set, both technically and interpersonally.

● You are self-motivated and driven to succeed.

● Able to extract key insights from data and communicate them effectively with others.

● Willingness to travel a few times per year for team meetings.

● Ability to tackle complex problems and engineer a successful future.

● Thrive in an evolving operational environment with continual iteration, responding to occasional unexpected production- level issues.

● History of meaningful open source contributions a plus.

Then we should get to know each other better!