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 SummaryWe 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.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.ResponsibilitiesContribute to the development and operational support our geo-distributed telemetry collection, aggregation and normalisation system for Product NetworksSupport internal platform customers with on-boarding applications and tools to the Kubernetes platform infrastructureSuggest and develop improvements as well as carry out maintenance to the Kubernetes platform, CI/CD tools, and Observability systemsParticipate in an on-call / support rota to respond to critical production impacting incidentsSuggest and implement improvements to existing manual processes promoting and enabling self-service for our internal customersParticipate in design reviews and contribute to the development of software solutionsDebug complex software and system issues and resolve performance bottlenecksParticipate in bi-weekly sprint planning and weekly scrum meetingsTake 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 solutionQualificationsStrong systems and software troubleshooting ability is a mustExperience working with distributed systemsDeep Linux systems proficiency is a mustExperience 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 AnsibleExperience 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 tailoringExperience developing software and scripting for systems and/or applications. We primarily use Go, Perl, Java and Shell scriptingSolid understanding of data structures and algorithmsExperience with Secrets Management processes and tooling, such as Hashicorp VaultExperience 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 desirableEquinix 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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