Principal Infrastructure Engineer

🕒 May 9

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Ooma, Inc.

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2004

📡 Telecommunications

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $5.1M Venture Round on 2015-05

Telecommunications • Internet Services • Enterprise

Ooma, Inc. is a company that provides advanced communications and collaboration solutions, with a focus on delivering business phone systems, enterprise communications, and internet service solutions. Ooma offers affordable pricing plans for both small businesses and residential customers, including home phone and security systems. The company provides customizable business phone, video, and messaging solutions, as well as POTS line replacement options. Ooma serves various industries like hospitality, dental, and real estate and offers free equipment with certain service packages.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and evolve infrastructure supporting production services across network and systems domains, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability • Drive improvements to reliability, redundancy, and overall service delivery across infrastructure environments • Serve as a senior escalation point for complex production issues, troubleshooting and resolving critical incidents impacting service availability • Lead by example through hands-on technical contribution and ownership of challenging infrastructure problems • Oversee and optimize on-premises network infrastructure, including switching, routing, firewalls, and load balancing, while ensuring security and resilience • Architect and manage Linux systems, virtualization platforms, and server infrastructure to support stable, high-performing environments • Lead the development and adoption of automation across network and systems environments, implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to standardize operations • Reduce manual processes and improve consistency across deployments and operational workflows • Partner with Engineering, Development, QA, and Application teams to support services and align infrastructure with business and application requirements • Act as a technical bridge to drive successful delivery of cross-functional initiatives • Establish and enforce infrastructure best practices and standards while mentoring team members and elevating overall technical capability • Drive continuous improvement across infrastructure design, operations, and documentation • Evaluate, design, and implement AI-assisted tooling to improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency • Foster the development, implementation, and progression of AI-based tools and software to streamline infrastructural tasks and expedite completion of projects and initiatives.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, including deep expertise in network engineering (routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing) and systems engineering (Linux, virtualization, server hardware), along with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience may be considered) • Proven experience supporting production environments in on-premises datacenters, with a strong focus on reliability and operational stability • Strong hands-on expertise in Linux administration and performance optimization across complex environments • Solid understanding of core networking protocols, including BGP, OSPF, and TCP/IP, is essential • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot issues across the full infrastructure stack, from hardware through network and systems layers • Experience implementing automation and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar is required • Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash, or equivalent) to support automation and operational efficiency • Familiarity with network and systems automation frameworks and modern infrastructure practices • Ability to operate both strategically and tactically, with a track record of owning and delivering large-scale infrastructure initiatives in fast-paced environments • Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams and communicate complex technical concepts • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker is strongly preferred • Familiarity with hybrid or cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) would be valuable • Exposure to monitoring, observability, and capacity planning tools and practices is a plus • Background in high availability, disaster recovery, and failover design is considered an advantage

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision insurance for you and eligible dependents • Employer Paid Income Protection Benefits (Basic Life and AD&D, Short- and Long-term disability) • FSA Healthcare & Dependent Care • Commuter Benefits • Voluntary Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity and Legal • 401(k), including employer match, and Roth • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) • Paid Time off, Sick Time, as well as corporate holidays observed • Employee Assistance Program • Life Balance benefits with Travel Assistance Services and Identity Theft • Additional Benefits include a Discount Program, Credit Union, Medicare Assistance, etc.