Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About This Role

Our current team is skilled, but we are looking for someone who can take our troubleshooting and infrastructure design to the next level. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer you will be able to join the team and immediately contribute to Location Labs' success. Our team is in constant communication with all the other departments in the company to enable them to design, deploy, and maintain the best software possible.

About You

You love technology and its ability to change the world. You thrive in an agile development process and in teams with constant and authentic communication. You don't just look for a job, you look for a company culture that will accelerate your career growth and teammates who will be life-long connections. In particular, you have a good mind for flexibility around problems and solutions, and thrive in a non-siloed environment.

What We're Looking For

• You are passionate about the architecture and quality of the work your team does
• You build for uptime first and care about application and network stability
• You are fluent in advanced Linux usage and administration
• You can identify and troubleshoot problems in your network
• You can design a modern, highly available platform at scale
• You work in a repeatable and maintainable fashion in whatever you do
• You excel at breaking down complex topics into easy to understand chunks for your colleagues

Experience

• Fluent in scripting using Bash
• Hands-on datacenter experience racking and connecting servers, switches, etc.
• Competent in at least one dynamic language - Python is preferred
• Setup shared and/or distributed storage infrastructure
• Managed hypervisors using platforms such as oVirt or Openstack
• Deployed configuration management and deployment tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
• Set up routers and switches from scratch, using dynamic routing protocols and commonly accepted network best practices
• Contributed to an open source project
• Created, maintained and optimized databases

Tech We Use

• Linux: Ubuntu LTS Releases, standardized on 14.04 Trusty
• Networking: BGP, Cumulus, OSPF, Strongswan
• Databases: MySQL
• Availability: keepalived, LVS, HAProxy, Corosync/Pacemaker
• Config Management and Deployment: Ansible
• Managed Hosting: We deploy and host most servers ourselves in a co-lo facility (We had 350+ hypervisors running a mix of ESXi and KVM at last count). We also host some products in AWS.
• Integrated collaboration tools: Git, Slack, Jira, Fisheye, and Confluence extensively. We work as a team and emphasize collaboration and code review.

About Us

Location Labs is the leader in mobile consumer products that enhance the personal safety of millions of users. Acquired in 2014 by online security leader AVG, our services are used by millions of monthly paying subscribers worldwide. Our engineers work closely with major device manufacturers, platform providers and network operators worldwide to provide cutting-edge solutions leveraging remote mobile device locator and management tools. Our company is redefining the market with a refreshing take on location services and the way in which mobile devices are managed.