What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior, Systems and Infrastructure Engineer position at VIZIO?
About the Team
Do you enjoy working with other teams and solving problems that empower the development teams to work faster and build more reliable applications? We're looking for a Senior, Systems and Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing DevOps Platform team.
As a Senior, Systems and Infrastructure Engineer your focus will be on building applications that are easier to deploy, quicker to rollback, more reliable, and faster to move into production. You will create observability dashboards for applications. You will work with developers to integrate and streamline development workflows, review design / code, and provide feedback to ensure best practices are followed. You will collaborate with development teams to improve the deployment, management, monitoring, and troubleshooting of our cloud-based services. In this role, it is important to help improve the experiences of our dev teams and the overall engineering culture of the company.
You will create and build onto platforms that give teams the most productive and best practices environment possible. You must be focused on security while also enabling the developers to move at maximum velocity. You are encouraged to create innovative automated solutions and tools to help debug and resolve problems in production and prevent them from recurring. You should be enthusiastic about taking on new unknown challenges and be able to debug complex problems under pressure.
What You Will Do
- Design, develop, deploy, test, automate, maintain, and enhance products, tooling and system solutions for cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CI / CD tools e.g. GitHub Actions, and scripting with languages like Python or Typescript.
- Work in Lambda, ECS, and EKS.
- Build and create VPC networking and connections between VPCs.
- Build out development platforms for the software engineering teams. E.g. Terraform modules, Backstage, and GitHub Action examples.
- Work on Backstage (React / Node development)
- Create observability dashboards that follow SRE recommended patterns.
- Huddle and collaborate with developers to integrate and streamline development and deployment workflows.
- Parachute into teams' codebases to help them with grace and care for their code and team.
- Review design / code and provide feedback to ensure best practices are followed.
- Willingness to contribute to and maintain existing documentation including educational content, system architecture diagrams, post-mortems, and incident management runbooks.
- Participate in weekly gunslinging rotations where you will be the front line for helping developers with one off requests.
- Present DevOps concepts across engineering whether through slack or brown bags.
- Triage application and system issues to debug, track, recover services quickly.
- Contribute to scrum process improvement; mentor team members; manage project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
About You
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 $110,000 - $142,000. 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.
Salary : $110,000 - $142,000
