Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on infrastructure initiatives and raise the operational bar
• Manage and support production and non-production infrastructure running in AWS
• Administer, monitor, and troubleshoot Linux-based systems and services
• Support multiple production environments including performance tuning and maintenance
• Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to infrastructure and service-related incidents
• Improve system reliability, availability, and performance through automation
• Partner with engineering teams to deploy, maintain, and optimize infrastructure services
• Document processes, operational procedures, and runbooks

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems, or site reliability engineering
• Experience leading technical efforts or mentoring others
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-based infrastructure
• Experience administering and troubleshooting data components like MySQL, Elasticache, Cassandra, or Elasticsearch
• Strong Linux systems administration skills
• Experience with Ansible, Salt, Chef, or Terraform
• Familiarity with scripting and automation using Bash and Python
• Experience supporting production services and participating in on-call rotations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Amazon ECS, EC2, VPC, Aurora, and Networking
• Experience with Datacenters such as Equinix
• Experience with Docker or other container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms
• Experience working in high-availability or customer-facing production environments

About the Company

SolarWinds is a people-first company dedicated to helping customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.