Staff DevOps Engineer - Developer Productivity

DevOps/Network Engineer – Developer Productivity, Nutanix – United States

The Opportunity -

This role offers great breadth of opportunity to contribute to the architecture of a new cloud platform, develop procedures and automation to maintain and support it, and operate critical environments within it. You will use your significant experience as a DevOps Engineer and as a Network Engineer to enable us build a platform that is robust, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient.

 Your Role

• Architect and implement infrastructure and networking at a large scale, spanning datacenters.
• Document and present architecture and designs to Engineering leaders, peers, and cross organizational stakeholders.
• Design, implement, and manage monitoring/alerting for an operational customer base.
• Automate the provisioning and management of switches, routers, and firewalls using both physical and virtual resources.
• Mentor your colleagues, junior and senior

What you’ll bring

Required

• 10+ years of experience with managing mission critical systems with a hard uptime requirement (i.e.: company loses money if service isn’t working)
• 3+ years of experience writing and managing infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CloudInit, Ansible, Salt)
• Expert in internet networking technologies, TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, segmentation strategies, firewalling techniques, multi-datacenter, multi-route, and continuously available topologies
• Experience configuring eBGP, iBGP, manipulating routing with community strings, anycast, and both global and local load balancing techniques, as well as route reflectors, route summarization techniques, and influencing both inbound and outbound traffic
• Expert knowledge of layer 2 & 3 networking protocols, including but not limited to spanning tree, QinQ, VxLAN, and MLAG
• Significant experience with Linux administration (preferably EL7/8)
• Experience with network troubleshooting techniques 
• Extensive Experience developing monitoring and alerting systems (e.g.: Zabbix, OpsGenie, Prometheus, Grafana)

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with the setup and management of DNS and DHCP (i.e.: Bind/Kea)
• Experience with capacity planning, and network surveillance/monitoring
• Manage and govern infrastructure lifecycle and costs
• Participate in the on-call rotation for our services
• Programming experience in Python
• Automation experience (scripting)
• Ability to understand existing APIs and produce automation that uses them
• Prior experience implementing significant technology redesign projects
• Database administration experience

About The Team

Meet Marc Swingler

• I joined Nutanix in 2018 as a DevOps Engineer to support engineering teams at scale
• I now manage the team I originally joined in 2018
• Before joining Nutanix, I previously worked as a Software Engineer, Release Engineer, DevOps Engineer, and Manager.
• Big wins tend to come from big challenges. My biggest professional wins come from taming performance issues in systems used at scale.
• A more personal win for me was learning to seek criticism. It’s helped me grow both professionally and as an individual.
• We’re looking to find a new team member who loves a good challenge, strives for the well-designed solution, is always working to evolve and improve

What the Team Says

• I enjoy working as part of the developer productivity team, a team of incredible people passionate about infrastructure success. This team makes a significant contribution to the daily success of products. It is a dynamic environment where everyone is ready to collaborate and work together to find solutions. I highly value Nutanix’s culture that encourages passion and curiosity for innovation and technology. – Malvika Agrawal
• I’ve had great experience at Nutanix. This place is packed with super-smart people who collaborate to do their best work together. We embrace our differences and ensure we have fun along the way. Everyone is empowered to work on things that they passionate about. Our ideas matter. I love Nutanix culture and the respect we get from each other. – Ankit Khandelwal

 How We Work

We are an interdisciplinary team working to prototype, develop, and operate a new cloud platform that users can run in their own private datacenters or in datacenters Nutanix manages for them. We also run internal production services on the platform ensure we’re actively learning to manage the platform while it’s live. We think big but start small, design with the future in mind, we set goals and strive to meet them.

About us

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix is a passionate team of 6000+ employees worldwide. Our people (we call ourselves “Nutants”) are the heartbeat of #LifeAtNutanix and one of the many things that makes Nutanix a great place to work at. We share an intellectual curiosity, a bias for action, and an obsession for our customers. We are builders and problem solvers with an entrepreneurial spirit. Above all, we celebrate what makes each of us unique. 

We are humbled to be recognized as one of Bloomberg’s Top 50 Companies to Watch in 2020 and one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® 2020. 

We’re growing fast and disrupting the computing industry. Join us and make your mark.

About our business

Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making computing invisible anywhere. Companies around the world use Nutanix software to leverage a single platform to manage any app, at any location, at any scale for their private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

We’re an equal opportunity employer

Nutanix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and (in the U.S.) an Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other category protected by applicable law. We hire and promote individuals solely on the basis of qualifications for the job to be filled.

We strive to foster an inclusive working environment that enables all our Nutants to be themselves and to do great work in a safe and welcoming environment, free of unlawful discrimination, intimidation or harassment.

As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by contacting CandidateAccommodationRequests@nutanix.com.

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $158,400 and $316,800 a year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. 

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.