Senior Infrastructure Engineer

TripAdvisor LLC; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Tripadvisor is seeking an Operations Engineer to join their Technical Operations team in Canada. The role focuses on enhancing production environments, automating workflows, and ensuring service uptime. Successful candidates will have strong problem-solving skills and experience in cloud environments, particularly AWS, and must be proficient in Python and container orchestration technologies.

Qualifications

• Experience in a dynamic production environment is essential.
• Proficiency in coding/scripting languages such as Python.
• Experience with hybrid-cloud environments, especially AWS.

Responsibilities

• Build stability by strengthening production environments and implementing best practices.
• Collaborate across teams to enhance automation.
• Establish SLAs for service uptime and develop necessary telemetry.

Skills

Automation

Problem Solving

Networking Fundamentals

Tools

Python

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

We believe that we are better together, and at Tripadvisor we welcome you for who you are. Our workplace is for everyone, as is our people powered platform. At Tripadvisor, we want you to bring your unique perspective and experiences, so we can collectively revolutionize travel and together find the good out there.

At Tripadvisor, we believe there’s good out there. We understand that travel brings out the best in us while lifting deserving businesses and strengthening the communities we meet along the way. We know that as the world’s largest travel site, we’re here to inspire and empower people to explore our world with confidence — and share their trip experiences with others. And every day, we see our ideas come to life in work that enables travelers to discover all the good the world has to offer. As part of the Tripadvisor team, you’ll have the opportunity to do the same.

The Technical Operations team is responsible for the architecture, deployment, and secure operation of our production environments & services, including our on-prem data centers where we manage thousands of physical and virtual machines, multiple cloud vendors where we have both directly managed environments as well as tenant environments, and our global network which spans over 26 countries.

Asan Operations Engineer, you will be a force multiplier for our engineering & operations teams, delivering tooling & infrastructure that not only has a direct impact on day-to-day operations but also helps contribute to the future evolution of Infrastructure & Engineering here at Tripadvisor.

What you’ll do:

• Build Stability: Strengthen our production environments, implement best practices, and when appropriate drive change across existing workflows.
• Empower end users: Collaborate across engineering & operation teams to improve automation of workflows and infrastructure.
• Ensure predictability: Establish SLAs for service uptime and build the necessary telemetry and alerting to reach them.
• Maintain Consistency: Develop and maintain solutions for deploying critical production infrastructure across diverse environments.
• Practice Accountability: Participate in periodic on-call duties and ensure that incident root causes are identified, debugged, and resolved to prevent recurrence.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience working in a highly available, dynamic production environment.
• Proficiency in coding/scripting languages such as Python. Driven towards automation, removing manual process bottlenecks to increase efficiency.
• Practical experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Strong understanding of Linux (RedHat/CentOS) and Web Servers (Tomcat/Apache).
• Experience with configuration management (e.g., Puppet, Ansible) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CDK).
• Experience working in hybrid-cloud environments (AWS preferred) as well as on-premise data centers.
• Familiarity with database technologies (PostgreSQL preferred).
• Excellent problem solver, ability to action high-level business needs and adapt to changing requirements.
• Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals.

Related Technologies:

• Programming Languages: Python, Bash, Go

If you need a reasonable accommodation or support during the application or the recruiting process due to a medical condition or disability, please reach out to your individual recruiter or send an email [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

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