Infrastructure Engineer II

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for the technical design, planning, implementation, and optimization of performance tuning and recovery procedures for critical enterprise systems and applications. You will serve as the technical authority in system administration for complex SaaS, local, and cloud-based environments.

Your role is critical in ensuring the high availability, reliability, and scalability of our infrastructure components. You will also be involved in designing philosophies, tools, and processes to enable the rapid delivery of evolving products.

Responsibilities:

• Design, configure, and document cloud-based infrastructures using AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and EC2 instances in AWS.

• Secure and monitor hosted production SaaS environments provided by third-party partners.

• Define, document, and manage network configurations within AWS VPCs and between VPCs and data center networks, including firewall, DNS, and ACL configurations.

• Lead the design and review of developer work on DevOps tools and practices.

• Ensure high availability and reliability of infrastructure components through monitoring and performance tuning.

• Implement and maintain security measures to protect infrastructure from threats.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deploy scalable solutions.

• Automate repetitive tasks and improve processes using scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or BASH.

• Support Airflow DAGs in the Data Lake, utilizing the Spark framework and Big Data technologies.

• Provide support for infrastructure-related issues and conduct root cause analysis.

• Develop and maintain documentation for infrastructure configurations and procedures.

• Administer databases, handle data backups, monitor databases, and manage data rotation.

• Work with RDBMS and NoSQL systems, leading stateful data migration between different data systems.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Science, Computer Science, Business, or equivalent work experience.

• 3-5 years of experience with Amazon Web Services, particularly VPC, S3, EC2, and EMR. Experience in setting up new VPCs and integrating them with existing networks is highly desirable.

• Experience in maintaining infrastructure for Data Lake/Big Data systems built on the Spark framework and Hadoop technologies.

• Experience with Active Directory and LDAP setup, maintenance, and policies.

• Workday certification is preferred but not required.

• Exposure to Workday Integrations and Configuration is preferred.

• Strong knowledge of networking concepts and technologies.

• Experience with infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef).

• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Understanding of Agile project methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, is required.

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