Careers

Description

The Role:

The Senior Platform Engineer is responsible for ensuring a robust operations environment for the various services that we support within Logitech, from internal infrastructural services to core database and business intelligence systems to consumer-facing applications. Our lean team manages all IT services and applications infrastructure across the globe for internal and external customers and consumer end-users, on prem and in the public cloud for millions of users on thousands of nodes.

Your Contribution:

Move fast.  Speak up.  Decide and own.  Drive change.  Exceed customer needs.  These are some of the winning behaviors you’ll need for success at Logitech. In this role you will:

• Design, develop, deploy and support on-premise and off-premise infrastructure solutions

• Optimize existing solutions for cost and performance, and propose alternatives and improvements

• Design and develop new tools and configure monitoring that will discover failures/issues in a timely fashion. Perform system reviews, evaluate implementations, and provide feedback about potential improvements

• Adhere to and augment best practices to improve reliability and performance. Develop automation, processes, and tools designed to make responding to and resolving incidents simpler and more robust.

• A passion for automation and reducing repetitive tasks.

• Highly self-motivated and driven to continually learn and improve. Evangelizes solutions and technologies to other members of team.

Key Qualifications:

For consideration, you must bring the following minimum skills and behaviors to our team:

• Experience in building scalable and highly available infrastructure systems and application architectures. Hands-on experience working with on-premise and cloud-based services in a highly available and scalable production environment.

• Solid understanding of platform design, including the operational trade-offs of various designs. Proven experience with VMWare, EMC, AWS/GCP/Azure Cloud, Windows and Linux OSes. Broad and deep understanding of compute and storage architectures.

• Solid experience with a variety of applications, including web servers, DNS, RDBMS, mail/SMTP, Active Directory. Thorough understanding of network and application stacks, able to troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve application and environmental issues efficiently.

• Being on call, resolving incidents, driving postmortems and improvements.

• Fluent and comfortable with AWS native services (S3, Storage Gateway, Route53). GCP/Azure a plus.

• Passionate about automating and reducing repetitive tasks.

• Familiarity with tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Cloud Formation, Chef, Puppet

• Understanding of security requirements necessary to operate in public cloud.

• A clear understanding of cloud service and deployment models

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related majors or a minimum of 3-5 years of technical experience in customer facing datacenter architecture, delivery and operational services in environments running VMWare and  AWS/Azure/GCP.

Small Company.  Big Products.

At Logitech we act like a small company. We believe that anyone can have the best idea. We are innovators, creators and designers.  We challenge ourselves and each other, and believe that success is never final. We push the limit, because great is not good enough.  We inspire, delight and empower the world.  We are Logitech.