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Flexential

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2000

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

📡 Telecommunications

B2B • Enterprise • Telecommunications

Flexential is a US-based provider of data center infrastructure and hybrid IT services. The FlexAnywhere® platform combines colocation, cloud (public/private/hybrid), connectivity/interconnection, data protection, managed and professional services to support enterprise workloads — including high-density GPU and AI/ML deployments. Flexential operates 40+ data centers across 18 US markets (3M+ sq. ft. footprint) and a 100+ Gbps network backbone, and positions itself as a B2B partner for enterprises needing resilient, scalable, and interconnected infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, development, deployment and operational management of automated, resilient, high availability, self-healing, secure platforms with native-AI capabilities for IT needs, serving both internal as well as customer business capabilities. • Lead, Build and manage the Platform Engineering team and function — hiring, mentoring, performance management, and technical roadmap ownership. • Plan, build and operate an OpenTelemetry Observability platform with technologies including Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Alertmanager on Kubernetes/RKE2 using Helm and ArgoCD. • Build an automated federated Observability Edge Stack — Prometheus + OTel collector nodes deployed per site and Zabbix auto-discovery configuration and Prometheus scrape profile library for 10+ device classes (Cisco, Juniper, Dell, NetApp, etc.). • Design, develop and manage engineering lifecycle platforms for high-velocity secure SDLC using Gitlab and similar / related technologies. • Build and operate iaC and CI/CD platforms including GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible AWX, Helm, and ArgoCD for automated provisioning and application deployment. • Own, enhance and operate critical IT platform technologies e.g Boomi for integrations, AWS for Cloud environments, including their hosted infrastructure. • Establish and enforce platform security posture: secrets management via CyberArk/Conjur, RBAC, mTLS, compliance boundary design, and zero inbound telemetry architecture. • Build and integrate ITSM capabilities for various platforms e.g automated incident creation, CI enrichment, and CMDB correlation. • Define and implement extensibility patterns including AIOps: e.g anomaly detection hooks, event correlation pipeline design, and integration with future ML/AI tooling. • Partner with other IT and business teams for App Dev, requirements capture, delivery validation and integration needs. • Represent platform engineering in cross-functional architecture reviews and executive-level program updates. • Perform other management and technical duties as required and assigned for team and operational resilience e.g team building, on-call rotation, etc. • Travel maybe required to team or project events.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant technical experience with 2+ years in a management (or Principal-level) role leading a engineering team. • DevOps / Platform Engineering - 8+ years, End-to-end ownership of developer/infrastructure platforms; Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, service-mesh, containerized workloads. • GitOps / CI-CD - 5+ years GitLab CI/CD, pipeline authoring, infrastructure-as-code delivery. • 8+ years of expert level automation frameworks experience with Python, Terraform, Ansible, etc. • Infrastructure (Linux/VM) - 8+ years Linux systems administration, VM lifecycle (VMware vCenter/VCF), Netapp storage and compute provisioning. • Working knowledge of Networking - 3+ years, TCP/IP, BGP/OSPF, SNMP protocol. • AI tooling – Strong understanding (or 1+ years experience) with MCP, Agentic workflows, SRE workflows e.g AIOps for Anomaly detection, event correlation, alert noise reduction on Prometheus and Grafana stack. • Experience with Secrets & Security - 4+ years, CyberArk, Conjur, Vault, or equivalent; RBAC design, compliance boundary architecture. • Engineering Management - 4+ years, Hiring, team building, performance management, roadmap ownership for teams of 5+ engineers. • Other training and experience may be substituted for the job requirements at the discretion of the manager.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Telehealth, Dental and Vision • 401(k) • Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) • Life and AD&D • Short Term and Long-Term disability • Flex Paid Time Off (PTO) • Leave of Absence • Employee Assistance Program • Wellness Program • Rewards and Recognition Program