Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer

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.

Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Job Summary

Mid-level application administrator with experience in areas including installation, configuration, build, deployment, migration, refreshes, backups and troubleshooting. May also have experience in audit, compliance and governance. Should understand the importance of application security and control.

Responsibilities

Experience and Deep Knowledge in following areas:

• Experience in Cloud Architecture and Design, both GCP and AWS
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define cloud strategies that align with business goals
• Experience in various cloud services in GCP (Dataflow, composer, Cloud Function, BigQuery, AppEngine, LB and GKE) and AWS
• Develop and implement automated deployment pipelines for multi-cloud environments
• Automate provisioning using terraform(IaC), scaling, and monitoring processes
• Implement DevOps best practices, such as Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), version control, and automated testing
• Utilize DevOps tools like Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• Implement security best practices for multi-cloud environments, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and compliance
• Manage Enterprise and Open source Kafka clusters
• Automation in Configuration like Patching and Setup of New Kafka Cluster using Ansible (roles, modules, Jinga template)
• Automation of various manual activities using Python
• Experience in Docker and Kubernetes(K8s)
• The ability to work completely independently or with a team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Qualifications

• Proven years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or related technology
• Demonstrable experience working in large scale enterprise production systems. Prove years of operational experience required
• Experience with public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure), VM and container virtualization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Very detail-oriented in planning, implementation, documentation, and follow-up
• The ability to work completely independently or with a team
• Team player attitude with experience working in a collaborative environment

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.

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.