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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.
The Senior Manager of Common Services & Server Infrastructure will supervise a distributed team of 6-8 engineers who support server and Cloud Infrastructures for developers and critical applications.
The manager will promote and implement agile practices and help build a secure and highly available computing infrastructure, including ESXi, Proxmox, K8S, or public cloud. They will also implement DevOps/GitOps tooling and provide Infrastructure APIs for developers to consume Infrastructure as code.
This role will collaborate with developers, application support, security, and production systems to ensure the success of digital services and the adoption of DevOps.
Leading the team you will:
- design, build, and manage On-Prem and Cloud infrastructure and applications.
- be responsible for server and Cloud Infrastructure, including deployment, management, and security.
- partner with InfoSec to implement security controls for critical Network infrastructure. Additionally, you will be responsible for CI/CD pipeline management and setting guidelines for high availability, performance, monitoring, backup, and restores.
- Collaborate with various stakeholder organizations to build trusted relationships.
- Implement process and technical improvements that help in just-in-time operational tooling and consolidation of tools and dashboards.
- Prioritize initiatives of infrastructure solutions and enact approved improvement recommendations.
- Encourage and support the application of DevOps principles and tools for developers and automation engineers.
The ideal candidate:
- has proven experience in Infrastructure as a Service, and leading Cloud/DevOps teams. They should have led diverse IT, SRE, Server Infra, or Cloud Infra teams. They will handle the private & public cloud environments, Securing, Access Management, RA/VA of Infra, optimizing server and networking landscape in a Data Center setting, and Deployment automation. Core knowledge of core SRE principles and DevSecOps is also vital.
- shows proficiency in networking including server OS, infra management, hypervisors (VMware ESXi, Proxmox), clusters, private cloud (OpenStack, Kubernetes), and public cloud. Skilled in Python, Perl, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
- is knowledgeable in CM tools like Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Ansible. Capable of supporting diverse and intricate developer environments from CI/CD tooling to developer client environments (Vagrant/LXC/Docker etc.).
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.
