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Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 250 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 Profile
We are looking for a strong Principal Engineer to join our highly skilled team of Platform and Infrastructure Engineers supporting a globally geo-distributed server and Linux-based cloud platform (PaaS) infrastructure critical to our organisation’s 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 demonstrate FOSS options to tackle 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 partners, following agile practices, to analyse requirements and develop solutions.
Responsibilities
- Works with Business Analysts to understand business requirements.
- Designs architectures for features.
- Participates in architectural review process.
- Provides technical leadership to team for design of solutions and applications.
- Evaluates and recommends adoption of open source.
- Participates in cross-technical technical integration and peer reviews.
- Manages internal/external customer relationships and communication, working with all the Product Stakeholders.
- Ensures and enables ITIL compliance.
- Works with technical project managers and product management teams to define schedule on multiple projects.
Skills & Experience
Software Design & Architecture
- Experience in software design solutions and as technical leader.
- Practical knowledge of relational/non-relational, time-series, OLAP databases.Perl and Shell scripting.
- Previous hands-on experience in software development using Go and/or Python (or another programming language).
- Ability and willingness to work with agile methodology.
DevOps Engineering
- Strong systems and software troubleshooting ability.
- Experience working with distributed systems.
- Deep Linux systems proficiency is a must.
- Experience with virtualisation and containerisation (QEMU, KVM, LXC, containered, docker).
- Experience handling 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 tailoring.
- Proven understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with Secrets Management processes and tooling, such as HashiCorp Vault.
- Experience with CI / CD tooling (Jenkins, DroneCI, ArgoCD)
Additional strengths
- 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.
