Senior Infrastructure Reliability Engineer

Role Description: 

Calix is looking for a technically strong engineer with experience in deploying and running workloads in a private/hybrid cloud infrastructure leveraging various virtualization tools including VMWare, Containers, and Kubernetes focused on supporting a high performing product development and testing organization. Engineering Infrastructure Operations delivers infrastructure services supporting the development of next-generation networking and SaaS products. The ideal candidate has in-depth experience with converged infrastructure running hypervisors, Kubernetes, containerized applications, and Linux.  This candidate will be fully versed in the architecture and systems required to install, run, and manage a resilient environment in either bare-metal, or hypervisor virtualized infrastructure.  Automation and removal of toil will be paramount to the success of this role.  Therefore, knowledge of processes, technologies, infrastructure-as-code and associated development tools/languages, and applications used by service delivery organizations are a must for this candidate.  

Responsibilities: 

• Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Design: Design and implement scalable cloud infrastructure using VMware, Containers, on Linux, and/or Kubernetes (K8s). 

• Automation and Scripting: Write Python scripts to automate tasks, integrate with REST APIs, and utilize JSON/YAML configurations. 

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implement Terraform/Ansible for infrastructure provisioning and management. 

• Monitoring, Alerting, Logging & Audit: Design and implement monitoring solutions, response automation and failure analysis. 

• Security and Compliance: Ensure compliance with security best practices and regulatory requirements. 

• Collaboration and Mentoring: Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers in DevOps practices. 

• End-to-End Automation: Design and implement end-to-end automation for alerts and toil management using tools like Ansible, Terraform. 

• Reporting and Analytics: Provide insights into alert and toil management metrics using data visualization tools like Grafana and Tableau. 

• Develop and document processes, procedures and inventory of assets. 

• Collaborate with development teams to ensure compatibility and efficiency of deployment pipelines and application performance. 

Required Qualifications & Skills: 

• Certification in Kubernetes, e.g. CKA 

• Certification in LINUX 

• APIs and application integration methods 

• IP networking, IP6 and IP4, virtual networking (VLANs, Subnets, Routing, DNS, MAC Filtering) 

• Knowledgeable in virtualized environments using common hypervisors like VMWare, KVM, or Hyper-V. 

• Knowledgeable in automation technologies and scripting (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Bash, Perl, Python, etc.) 

• Experienced with IT service management, ITIL methodology 

• User identity, access, authorization (LDAP, Active Directory, Redhat Identity Manager) 

• Software development methods (Agile /Lean Agile, Scrum) 

• Focused on secure solutions and cybersecurity practices 

• Experience & Education: 8 to 12 years of exp with Bachelor degree