Senior Compute Infrastructure Engineer

NextGenEnergyJobs; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in the company

Relocation assistance to Portland

Competitive cash compensation 150k–200

Job summary

NextGenEnergyJobs in Portland, OR is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to design, build, and operate our internal computing platforms across on-premise datacenters and cloud environments.

You will automate tooling, manage security, performance, and reliability, mentor teams, and collaborate with software engineers. This role requires 10+ years in the field and willingness to relocate if needed.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of directly relevant working and/or research experience
• 10+ years of directly relevant experience with Windows, Linux and MacOS system administration
• Infrastructure automation with Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform
• Experience building on-premise or cloud-hosted Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) and virtualized hosting
• Experience designing, building, and improving networks including IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls

Responsibilities

• Collaboratively architect, build, and operate internal and external-facing computing infrastructure in on-premise datacenter and cloud-hosted environments
• Design and implement automated tools and processes for hosting software applications reliably, performantly, and securely
• Develop infrastructure-as-code software to support platform and application workloads
• Deploy, operate, monitor, upgrade and migrate business applications to ensure reliable and scalable performance
• Implement solutions including deploying new servers, network equipment, applications, end-user devices
• Manage and administer third-party SaaS applications used by the company
• Monitor systems, applications and networks to identify problems and threats
• Respond to incidents to maintain business continuity and security
• Document system architecture, procedures, and protocols

Skills

System administration

Networking

Scripting

Security

Tools

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

Terraform

HCI

Job description

Our offices, lab, and machine shop are located in Portland, Oregon.

Key Responsibilities

• We are developing technology that will operate in the worst conditions the world’s oceans have to offer for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention. Building this technology requires collaboration across teams and tools. Our internal computing infrastructure and software applications are fundamental to the operation of our overall business and our technology systems in the field.
• You will take shared responsibility for building and operating our internal computing infrastructure platforms and the many business-critical applications that run upon them. The ideal candidate will understand performance, availability, and security requirements for the company’s infrastructure, networks, and applications. You will architect and develop technology solutions to business problems and directly implement and operate them. You should have extensive experience with Windows and Linux systems administration, operating system configuration management, virtualized/cloud-hosted/containerized infrastructure, IP networking, and infrastructure security. You should be able to employ a first-principles, fundamental logic-based approach to problem solving while building highly-secured, performant and reliable systems.
• Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills and be able to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis. Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, Virgin Orbit, Virgin Galactic, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries. We are organized as a public benefit corporation, and we are backed by leading venture capital firms, private investors, philanthropic investors, and endowments.
• Collaboratively architect, build, and operate internal and external-facing computing infrastructure in on-premise datacenter and cloud-hosted environments
• Design and implement automated tools and processes for hosting commodity and internally-developed software applications reliably, performantly, and securely
• Develop infrastructure-as-code software to support and enable the operation of platform and application workloads
• Deploy, operate, monitor, upgrade and migrate business applications to ensure reliable and scalable performance that meets the needs of our users
• Implement agreed-upon solutions, including deploying new servers, network equipment, applications, end-user devices, and other equipment
• Manage and administer third-party SaaS applications used by the company
• Monitor systems, applications and networks to identify problems and threats
• Respond to incidents when they occur to maintain business continuity and security
• Document system architecture, procedures, and protocols
• Cash compensation of $150,000 – $200,000
• Equity in the company. We’re all owners, and if we’re successful, this equity will be far and away the most valuable component of your compensation.
• A benefits package that helps you take care of yourself and your family including:
• Relocation assistance to help facilitate your move to Portland if needed

Requirements

• Ability to work in our Portland, OR headquarters
• Legal authorization to work in the United States
• 5+ years of directly relevant experience
• Extensive experience with modern Windows, Linux and MacOS system administration using automated tools and processes
• Infrastructure automation with configuration management and IaC tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
• Experience building on-premise or cloud-hosted Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) and virtualized/containerized application hosting platforms
• Experience designing, building, and improving networks, including experience in IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls and high-availability architecture
• Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, PowerShell, etc.
• Ability to rapidly build understanding and expertise in new technologies, software packages, and programming languages
• Ability to think independently about potential solutions – including the novel or uncommon – rather than implementing industry standards if they will not achieve the desired outcome
• 10+ years of directly relevant working and/or research experience
• Comfort working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities
• Experience supporting software development teams in the practice of building/testing/deploying/operating custom software applications, especially IoT software and hardware
• Experience deploying and maintaining engineering-focused software (e.g. Siemens NX, Ansys, other CAD/CAM/Simulation/FEA software)
• Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster administration and operation
• Experience with vulnerability management, red-teaming, and other security analysis functions
• Experience at startup companies or with innovative interdisciplinary teams, including: Comfort working with ambiguity and uncertainty; Ability to proactively evolve work to meet the changing needs of company; Willingness to question and refine prior requirements; Strong interpersonal and organizational skills; Open-mindedness about possible solutions, conventional or unconventional; Ability to identify problems, willingness to call them out constructively, and dedication to resolving them
• A history of successful mentorships, training others, teaching of seminars, or authoring technically focused web pages or white papers
• The above qualifications are desired, not required. We encourage you to apply if you are a strong candidate with only some of the desired qualifications listed.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States
• Travel to test sites and manufacturing locations as needed
• Intermittently able to work longer hours and weekends to support critical need; we expect a lot of each other, but we also offer a high degree of autonomy and work-life balance, including unlimited PTO and flexible working hours