Staff Cloud Operations Engineer

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🕒 January 22

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Extreme Networks

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1996

📡 Telecommunications

🏢 Enterprise

🔐 Security

Telecommunications • Enterprise • Security

Extreme Networks is a global leader in cloud networking solutions. The company specializes in providing wired and wireless LAN infrastructure, network security, and cloud-based network management services. Their products and solutions, such as ExtremeCloud™ IQ and Network Fabric, are designed to simplify IT operations through automation and intelligent management. Trusted by more than half of the Fortune 50 companies, Extreme Networks helps organizations securely connect devices and applications, improve operational efficiency, and enhance customer experiences. The company is recognized for its leadership in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Architect & Scale Infrastructure: Design and implement multi-cluster, multi-region Kubernetes deployments using EKS, GKE, and AKS. Build infrastructure that scales across regions and cloud providers. • Own Production Systems: Take end-to-end ownership of production infrastructure. Drive incident response, postmortems, and improvements to prevent recurrence. • Infrastructure as Code at Scale: Build and maintain Terraform modules for complex infrastructure patterns. Manage thousands of configuration files across clusters, regions, and environments using GitOps principles. • GitOps & Deployment Excellence: Design and optimize ArgoCD ApplicationSets and Helm chart architectures. Build deployment pipelines that enable safe, automated releases across hundreds of microservices. • Performance & Reliability Engineering: Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations. Improve SLOs through capacity planning, autoscaling, and architectural improvements. • Observability & Monitoring: Build and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and custom tooling. Drive visibility into complex distributed systems. • Security & Compliance: Implement security controls, compliance frameworks, and best practices across cloud infrastructure. Design secure multi-tenant architectures. • Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers, establish best practices, and drive technical decisions. Collaborate with platform, SRE, and product teams to deliver reliable infrastructure.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in cloud infrastructure engineering, with deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred) • Strong Kubernetes experience: cluster design, operators, controllers, and multi-cluster management • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar • GitOps expertise: ArgoCD, Flux, or similar; experience with ApplicationSets and complex deployment patterns • Deep Linux and networking knowledge • Experience with distributed systems: Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ • Monitoring and observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar • Strong problem-solving skills and experience debugging complex distributed systems • Experience with cloud security, compliance (SOC2, ISO27001), and secure-by-design practices • Excellent communication skills for working across time zones and with distributed teams • Self-directed with a track record of owning problems end-to-end.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. • Prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type.