Staff Engineer, Platform Infrastructure Engineering

Equinix, Inc; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in digital infrastructure is seeking a Staff Engineer to support its geo-distributed cloud platform. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining Kubernetes infrastructure, troubleshooting system issues, and mentoring junior team members. This role is crucial for the operational success of their digital services.

Qualifications

• Strong troubleshooting ability with systems and software.
• Experience with distributed systems and deep Linux proficiency.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes infrastructure and Configuration Management tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support telemetry systems for Product Networks.
• On-board applications to Kubernetes platform infrastructure.
• Participate in design reviews and implement improvements.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Distributed Systems

Linux Systems

Virtualisation

Containerisation

Configuration Management

Kubernetes

Software Development

Scripting

Data Structures

Monitoring

CI/CD

Job description

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 Summary

We 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.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and operational support our geo-distributed telemetry collection, aggregation and normalisation system for Product Networks
• Support internal platform customers with on-boarding applications and tools to the Kubernetes platform infrastructure
• Suggest and develop improvements as well as carry out maintenance to the Kubernetes platform, CI/CD tools, and Observability systems
• Participate in an on-call / support rota to respond to critical production impacting incidents
• Suggest and implement improvements to existing manual processes promoting and enabling self-service for our internal customers
• Participate in design reviews and contribute to the development of software solutions
• Debug complex software and system issues and resolve performance bottlenecks
• Participate in bi-weekly sprint planning and weekly scrum meetings
• Take 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 solution

Qualifications

• Strong systems and software troubleshooting ability is a must
• Experience working with distributed systems
• Deep Linux systems proficiency is a must
• Experience 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 Ansible
• Experience 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 tailoring
• Experience developing software and scripting for systems and/or applications. We primarily use Go, Perl, Java and Shell scripting
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience with Secrets Management processes and tooling, such as Hashicorp Vault
• Experience 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 desirable

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.