Senior, Systems and Infrastructure Engineer

About the Team

We live and breathe big data. On a daily basis, we ingest and extract useful information from hundreds of live TV channels as well as collect, analyze and report on information from millions of TVs. Today, with over 23 million devices and operating at a massive scale leveraging modern architecture, design and technologies. As any organization that has grown organically and significantly over time, there is a lot to manage and an appetite for tech modernization. This means you will have the hunger to tackle new and existing components within our current stack while helping to support specific operational challenges such as administration, monitoring, logging, configuration management, and automation.

What You Will Do

• We are actively seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer (SRE) to join our dynamic team. As a key player on the Operations team, the ideal candidate will demonstrate senior level proficiency in leveraging cloud technologies to ensure the reliability, scalability and performance of our platform.
• In this role, you will play a crucial part in building and reviewing key SRE metrics, managing on-call responsibilities and exceeding expectations of platform availability and incident response. You are graceful under pressure and ready to jump in when needed.
• You should have a strong understanding of end-to-end architecture with modern microservice based architectures and pipelines. You've been in the trenches building, instrumenting and the observability of highly-scalable and resilient modern based applications from code to backend systems. Understanding and practicing Golden signals as key indicators of system health and performance to support SRE and business partners. Your responsibility will be to help bring our current platform to the next generation with Kubernetes.
• You should exhibit senior-level expertise estimating, building and maintaining large-scale systems deployed in a cloud environment which showcase a strong understanding of cloud architecture and infrastructure. This requires experience in designing, implementing and managing complex AWS solutions, leveraging services such as Route53, SQS, EC2, S3, and EKS and Kubernetes.
• You'll work with others leveraging your ability to influence and provide site-reliability to cross-functional teams to gain buy-in and support.

About You

• You are quick to admit when you have been wrong and are comfortable being vulnerable about what you learned. You will bring an appetite and the capability to learn.
• Exceptional communications and time management skills are a must, as the role involves effectively conveying insights to ensure clear understanding and alignment with team members and stakeholders. You are an excellent active listener with humility and empathy. You naturally build relationships with your team and peers. You often debate the other side of issues and try on other people's perspectives so that you can learn from their experiences and values.
• You embrace asynchronous written communication and work hard to help your team achieve an ideal flow with deep and focused work. You lean into difficult conversations to resolve a situation and do what is right. You understand the value of direct, transparent, respectful and kind feedback. You will have a history of fostering positive relationships across departments, enhancing teamwork.
• Above all else, you take ownership of the systems under your care. You strive to understand their inner workings and how they come together as a whole to deliver a business result. You take equal responsibility for understanding things both old and new, because our customers don't care. You strive to move constantly forward in an incremental fashion towards a future state, and you work to make it possible every day.

• Cloud Platforms:
  
  • 4+ years of proficiency in AWS or Azure and modern pipelining technologies and approaches.
• Containerization and Orchestration:
  
  • 2+ years of design, deployment and monitoring of containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes
• Systems / Infrastructure as Code (IAC):
  
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience with IaC tools, such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Monitoring and Logging:
  
  • 3+ years of expertise in implementing and managing observability platforms and monitoring tools (New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus) feeding into SLOs/SLI objectives and logging solutions like ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) or Splunk.
• Automation and Programming:
  
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Python or Bash and configuration management tools like Salt, Ansible or Chef
• CI/CD:
  
  • 1+ years of hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines like Jenkins or Argo.
• Reliability and Performance:
  
  • 3+ years of implementing highly reliable, scalable and available systems with system optimization, performance and resource utilization
• Incident Response:
  
  • 2+ years of primary incident management, on-call support with incident response procedures and tools such as Pager Duty and related best practices.
• Collaboration and Communication:
  
  • You possess a knack for fostering professional growth and knowledge-sharing with proven ability to guide and empower team members contributing to a collaborative and skill-enhancing work environment.
• Documentation:
  
  • Proficient in creating and maintaining clear and comprehensive documentation.
• Problem-Solving:
  
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems.
• Education:
  • Bachelor's Degree (BA,BS or MS in Computer Science ) or equivalent experience.

About VIZIO

We are Beautifully Simple.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, VIZIO is a leading HDTV brand in America and the #1 Sound Bar Brand in America. VIZIO's mission is to deliver high performance, smarter products with the latest innovations at a significant savings that we can pass along to our consumers. Our loyal following and industry-wide praise continues to grow as we redefine what it means to be smart.

VIZIO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will not pay fees to any third-party agency, outside recruiter or firm without a mutually agreed-upon contract and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes will be considered our property and will be processed accordingly.

For Colorado-based employment: The target salary range is $121K - $142K. In addition to base salary, the compensation package also includes eligibility for an annual bonus, as well as equity and a range of medical, dental, vision and other benefits