Senior Compute Infrastructure Engineer

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 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
• 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

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
• 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

Qualifications

• 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
• A history of successful mentorships, training others, teaching of seminars, or authoring technically focused web pages or white papers