Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure Engineers at LotusFlare are hybrid software/systems engineers who ensure that LotusFlare's services run smoothly and have the capacity for future growth. They are embedded in every one of LotusFlare's product and infrastructure teams and are core participants in every significant engineering effort underway in the company.

Partnered alongside the best engineers in the industry on the coolest stuff around, the code and systems you work on will be in production and used by millions of users all around the world.  Our team comprises engineers with varying levels of experience and backgrounds, from new grads to industry veterans. Relevant industry experience is important (Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Network Engineer, Systems Administrator, Linux Administrator, Database Administrator or similar role), but ultimately less so than your demonstrated abilities and attitude. We sail into uncharted waters every day at LotusFlare in Infrastructure Engineering, and we are always learning.

Responsibilities

• Build out automation and orchestration for the high available containerized backend
• Drive efficiency, scaling, and self-healing capabilities of our infrastructure
• Identify performance offenders and work with engineers to optimize the platform
• Use cloud-native technologies, public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, operating systems (Linux), container and orchestration platforms based on Docker and Kubernetes and application environments (NGINX, NoSQL persistence solutions), with an emphasis to build tools for automation and orchestration of our workloads
• Implement tools to increase the level of automation in our infrastructure 
• Analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues
• Implement best practices in building, profiling, and monitoring high-performance high availability solutions providing mission-critical real-time functionality on the control plane of mobile and fixed network

Requirements

• BA/BS in Computer Science or other equivalent technical disciplines 
• Minimum 5 years of working experience
• Experience with using a broad range of cloud-native technologies and stacks (e.g. AWS, Azure)
• Strong scripting and automation skills, implementing in Python, Go, and similar languages
• Continuous build and continuous delivery stacks including artifact and container repositories, container runtimes based on Kubernetes
• Developer tools for source control, static code analysis, and test automation frameworks
• Linux kernel experience with good networking and network security knowledge
• Cloud-native infrastructure stack experience with tools like Terraform or Ansible
• Experience with metrics and logging solutions (Prometheus, Kafka, or ELK stack)
• Experience with No SQL databases like Redis or Cassandra (Nice to have)
• Ability to maintain cloud-based solutions with an emphasis on cloud security

Perks

• Competitive salary package
• Paid lunch (In the office)
• Private healthcare
• Yearly bonus
• Company stock options
• Training and workshops
• Truly flexible working hours
• Work from anywhere (office or remote)
• Top-of-the-class engineers to learn from and work with

About LotusFlare

LotusFlare employees join and remain at LotusFlare for two simple reasons. First, they can see immediately that their work makes a positive impact on LotusFlare customers, and second, they grow on a personal level by developing best practices and experience in cloud-native enterprise software.  LotusFlare Founder and CEO Sam Gadodia believes that if you want to make an impact and change industries for the better, you should consider joining LotusFlare. 

LotusFlare has always been about making an impact through software products and changing industries for the better by simplifying technology so as to simplify the customer experience. Founded by the team that helped Facebook reach over one billion mobile users, LotusFlare was born out of a vision to make the mobile internet accessible and affordable to people in parts of the world who often did not have access. 

From this initial work, LotusFlare’s mission now is to design, build and continuously advance a cloud-native digital commerce and monetization platform that simplifies technology and customer experience to deliver valuable outcomes to enterprises. This platform provides the software product foundation for the company’s main offering, the LotusFlare Digital Network Operator® Cloud. LotusFlare DNO™ Cloud is a digital commerce and monetization managed service that serves as a digital BSS to deliver valuable business outcomes for communications and media services providers.

LotusFlare looks for people all around the world who are passionate in their aim to make an impact and change industries for the better by simplifying technology. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley with offices in EMEA and APAC, LotusFlare serves Verizon, T-Mobile, Globe Telecom, MPIC, Digi, DISH Networks, Permata Bank, Singtel, Digicel, Supercell, and other leading enterprises around the world.