This is an engineering position that requires a thorough grasp of network, infrastructure, and system technologies. With a strong engineering perspective, you will be able to solve and develop our infrastructure automation concerns, with a focus on positioning our infrastructure, systems, services, and platforms for growth, scalability, and supportability.

You will be part of a globally dispersed engineering team that will assist to push engineering best practices across the firm. There is an excellent chance to take the lead, develop best practices, and push the frontiers of Infrastructure and Systems engineering automation approaches.

Here are some things you’ll do

• Engineer and maintain automation platforms in support of infrastructure systems in our Data Center and across cloud providers.
  
• Build robust, supportable, secure and highly scalable computing and network infrastructure.
  
• Design systems for peak reliability, scalability, and performance.
  
• Debug Live Site events and conduct follow-up post-mortem and root cause analysis.
  
• Willing to travel to our US Data Center environment – Travel required minimal.
• Participate in an SLA-driven on-call rotation, including after-hours, weekend, and rotating holiday participation.

About you

• At least five years of experience in a solid DevOps/SRE skill set. That means you are hands-on with Linux, comfortable setting kernel tunable parameters and shell scripting, know three ways to find a file, check the utilization of system I/O, measure network throughput, and are comfortable navigating large log files.
• Solid Infrastructure automation experience, Worked with Terraform and at least one orchestration framework (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, CFEngine, Saltstack, etc.)
• Solid experience with Layer 2 networks, VXLAN, routing protocols (BGP), IPSec, VPN peering, and IPv6.
• Strong cross-group collaboration and communication skills.
• Familiar with at least one of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience debugging, diagnosing, and troubleshooting complex production software.
• Resilience, supportability, availability, and security is a cornerstone considerations for every change you make.

There's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. We're looking for an optimist with grit and determination, who is excited to face the challenges of a growing startup. MaxFense is the type of company where you can grow, and we encourage you to apply to us even if you don't 100% match the exact candidate description.