GitHub is seeking experienced professionals to elevate its Physical Infrastructure efforts, aiming to design, build, and enhance physical infrastructure frameworks and tools to ensure scalable and efficient data centers.
Requirements
- 6+ years’ technical experience in one or more infrastructure domains (e.g., container orchestration engineering, platform engineering, database engineering, software engineering, network engineering, systems administration, or related field),
- OR bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years’ technical experience in infrastructure domains (e.g., container orchestration engineering, platform engineering, database engineering, software engineering, network engineering, systems administration, or related field),
- OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years' experience with physical hardware design at the rack/chassis level in the context of datacenter deployments.
- 2+ years' experience deploying infrastructure in a data center.
- 1+ year(s) technical leadership experience
- 3+ years' experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and enhance physical infrastructure systems, frameworks, and tools to manage and maintain data centers, ensuring systems are scalable and efficient while automating processes to improve performance.
- Lead capacity planning and design initiatives, predict growth trends, and ensure infrastructure is properly scaled to handle increasing demands.
- Implement and maintain robust security measures, conduct vulnerability assessments, and ensure compliance with relevant regulatory standards, focusing on the unique requirements of physical infrastructure.
- Establish observability and monitoring systems to proactively identify and address performance gaps or outages and execute disaster recovery and failure test scenarios specific to physical infrastructure.
- Act as a senior point of contact for diagnosing and resolving infrastructure issues promptly to minimize downtime, contribute to incident management processes, and implement preventive measures to avoid future incidents.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers and data center vendors, to troubleshoot issues, optimize infrastructure performance, and identify opportunities for new features and improvements in the space.
- Lead the design and integration of physical hardware at the rack/chassis level, ensuring compatibility and efficiency in data center deployments
Other
- Participate in an on-call rotation and quickly respond to issues and work to prevent them in the future
- Lead initiatives within the open-source community to enhance existing tools, develop new features, and share best practices, with a focus on physical infrastructure technologies.
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
