Senior Staff Platform Engineer
Core
Designing and developing robust architectures for monitoring, troubleshooting, and obtaining telemetry from Equinix's worldwide network of datacenters.
Role type
Senior Staff Platform Engineer (Infrastructure)
Builds
Automated infrastructure for 2,000+ VMs, dozens of Kubernetes clusters, and 600+ on-premises servers across 120+ distributed datacenters.
Domain
Digital Infrastructure / Cloud Operations / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes cluster management, Linux systems administration, virtualization (Proxmox, VMware), containerization (Docker, KVM, LXC), configuration management (Puppet, Ansible, Chef), observability (Prometheus, Grafana), CI/CD (ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, GitHub Actions, Jenkins), secrets management (HashiCorp Vault), distributed systems architecture.
Preferred skills
Networking and routing, Kafka, ClickHouse.
Responsibilities
Drive infrastructure automation for configuration management; Collaborate with global teams on security, networking, and platform standards; Implement GitOps practices for deployments and drift management; Build relationships with internal customers and product stakeholders; Work with technical project managers to define and plan projects; Participate in on-call shifts.
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic guidance