Senior Infrastructure Engineer Cloud

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Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, operating 240+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

We are a fast-growing global company with 20+ years of continuous growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have created the largest, most active global ecosystem of 10,000+ companies, including 2,100 networks and 3,000+ cloud and IT service providers in 32 countries spanning six continents.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Manager to oversee and manage the successful implementation of mission critical multidisciplinary projects to our Managed Services customers and Is responsible for planning standards reviews and setting strategy for company-wide programs/portfolios.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong background as an engineer application with experience in areas including installation, configuration, capacity planning and SOX. May also have experience in audit, compliance and governance. Should be seasoned to independently manage projects.

What you'll be doing

• Work alongside application development teams to support the transition and operation of data-driven applications into AWS

• Deploying, managing, and operating AWS environments with cross functional knowledge on other cloud environments (GCP, Azure & OCI)

• Ensuring that all AWS environments adhere to Experian security standards

• Identifying appropriate use of AWS operational best practices

• Estimating AWS costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms

• Create technical documentation and keep it up to date

• Proactively keep up to date on AWS services and developments

• Automation of environment provisioning

• Lead data and application migration projects

• Improvement of resources and work on the resources which will designate costs required for planning of governance, budgeting, and reporting

• Upgrading software, patching AWS resources and patching linux & windows servers; managing the disaster recovery and creating the data backups

• Maintaining Data Integrity and access control by making use of the AWS application platform; effectively monitoring charging and cost optimization strategies

What you must have

• Solid experience provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running in AWS

• Significant experience with application and data migrations into AWS

• Experience working within an Agile development framework

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Experience leveraging CloudFormation, Terraform, Terragrunt to provision AWS infrastructure as code

• Deployment experience using common AWS technologies like Control Tower, VPC, EC2, ASG, Route 53, Transit Gateway, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, EFS, RDS, S3, Lambda, Cloudfront, Bedrock Docker and more

• Strong experience with CI/CD concepts and DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or GitLab

• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS MSK & AWS RabbitMQ etc.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English

• Strong analytical and software design skills

• Experience in architecting cloud environments, implementing security best practices and global standards

• Understanding with Network topology

• Strong experience with automating day to day repeated activities using shell, python or ansible

• Team Player with good leadership skills and flexible with working hours

• Read to explore new technologies and conduct POC on new options

Why Equinix

Equinix is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard 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.

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 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.