Staff Engineer

Company: Equinix
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: May 3, 2021

Job Description:

Staff EngineerEquinix is the worlds digital infrastructure company, operating 210 data centersacross the globe andproviding interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.At Equinix, wehelp the worlds digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, andtransform peoples lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams. We hirehardworking people who thrive on solvingchallengingproblems 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 providingan equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success. Job SummaryIf you're always looking for improvements and automation is your second nature, have experience in at least one programming language, and tools used in the DevOps practices excites you then you're our perfect candidate. Repetitive activities are boring and have to be eliminated. You will be part of a world-class product engineering team thats paving the path for new ways for enterprises to consume ever increasing cloud services. This team is responsible for building Equinixs highly scalable, globally distributed and real-time data center infrastructure monitoring applications.ResponsibilitiesDesign and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictableCreate mechanisms/architectures that enable rapid recovery, repair and cleanup of faulty migrations with good understanding of fault tolerance and failure domainsIdentify opportunities to deliver self-service capability for the most common infrastructure and application management tasksImprove the predictability and reliability of software releases with the implementation of automated build, test and deployment tools and processesEngage with Software Engineering in the design and development of software tools to reliably manage application deliveryEngage with Production Engineering in the design, implementation and maintenance of the build/release infrastructureWrite code, integrate systems and build configurations to drive and innovate around Public Cloud based platform across the organizationMove fast, break things, and determine how to fix them, test everythingQualifications5+ years of experience. 2+ year of hands on professional software development experience architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining customer facing applications at scale in an innovative engineering environment, hands-on experience with Java is a plusConfiguration Management and automationKnowledge on Ansible create, maintain and run Ansible playbooks (tasks, handlers, conditionals, loops and registers)You have experience in describing the infrastructure configuration as a code with Hashicorp Terraform with the usage of different providersSoftware EngineeringYou have knowledge ofCommon API concepts and standards as well as aspects of data storage, service status and session handlingHow to operate with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins experience is a plusUnderstanding of the components of a CI/CD pipelineDeployment best practices/strategiesThe Twelve-Factor app methodologyArchitecture of the infrastructureExperience in building and running production systems utilizing microservices and distributed systems architecture at scaleYou have a background in workload based on cloud-based system with at least one of the leading public cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)Container and Machine DeploymentYou have working experience with containers and orchestrators:You know how to build and operate Docker containers architecture, construction and optimizationYou have experience with defining and manage applications that operate on orchestration platforms Kubernetes, RancherExperience with service-mesh architecture is a plusEquinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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