The Opportunity -

This position offers an opportunity to contribute to the architecture of a new cloud platform. You will use your significant experience as a Network Engineer and as a DevOps Engineer to continuously improve both our physical and virtual infrastructure using DevOps principles and technologies.

Your Role

• Design infrastructure and networking at a large scale, spanning datacenters. Implement the design in our data centers.

• Document and present architecture and designs to Engineering leaders, peers, and cross organizational stakeholders.

• Design, implement, and manage monitoring/alerting for an operational customer base.

• Design, implement, and manage automated provisioning for all IaaS infrastructure.

• Work with developers to automate workflows on top of our IaaS infrastructure.

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years of experience with managing mission critical systems with a hard uptime requirement (i.e.: company loses money if service isn’t working)

• Expert in internet networking technologies, TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, segmentation strategies, firewalling techniques, multi-datacenter, multi-route, and continuously available topologies

• Experience configuring eBGP, iBGP, manipulating routing with community strings, anycast, and both global and local load balancing techniques, as well as route reflectors, route summarization techniques, and influencing both inbound and outbound traffic

• Expert knowledge of layer 2 & 3 networking protocols, including but not limited to spanning tree, QinQ, VxLAN, and MLAG

• Significant experience with Linux administration (preferably EL7/8)

• Experience with network troubleshooting techniques

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with the setup and management of DNS and DHCP (i.e.: Bind/Kea)

• Experience with capacity planning, and network surveillance/monitoring

• Automation experience (scripting)

• Ability to understand existing APIs and produce automation that uses them

• Prior experience implementing significant technology redesign projects

• Database administration experience

• Extensive Experience developing monitoring and alerting systems (e.g.: Zabbix, OpsGenie, Prometheus, Grafana)

About The Team

Meet Marc Swingler

• I joined Nutanix in 2018 as a DevOps Engineer to support engineering teams at scale

• I now manage the team I originally joined in 2018

• Before joining Nutanix, I previously worked as a Software Engineer, Release Engineer, DevOps Engineer, and Manager.

• Big wins tend to come from big challenges. My biggest professional wins come from taming performance issues in systems used at scale.

• A more personal win for me was learning to seek criticism. It’s helped me grow both professionally and as an individual.

• We’re looking to find a new team member who loves a good challenge, strives for the well-designed solution, is always working to evolve and improve

What the Team Says

• I enjoy working as part of the developer productivity team, a team of incredible people passionate about infrastructure success. This team makes a significant contribution to the daily success of products. It is a dynamic environment where everyone is ready to collaborate and work together to find solutions. I highly value Nutanix’s culture that encourages passion and curiosity for innovation and technology. – Malvika Agrawal

• I’ve had great experience at Nutanix. This place is packed with super-smart people who collaborate to do their best work together. We embrace our differences and ensure we have fun along the way. Everyone is empowered to work on things that they passionate about. Our ideas matter. I love Nutanix culture and the respect we get from each other. – Ankit Khandelwal

How We Work

We are an interdisciplinary team working to prototype, develop, and operate a new cloud platform that users can run in their own private datacenters or in datacenters Nutanix manages for them. We also run internal production services on the platform ensure we’re actively learning to manage the platform while it’s live. We think big but start small, design with the future in mind, we set goals and strive to meet them.

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $140,800 and $282,000/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

We're an Equal Opportunity Employer Nutanix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and (in the U.S.) an Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other category protected by applicable law. We hire and promote individuals solely on the basis of qualifications for the job to be filled. We strive to foster an inclusive working environment that enables all our Nutants to be themselves and to do great work in a safe and welcoming environment, free of unlawful discrimination, intimidation or harassment. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by contacting CandidateAccommodationRequests@nutanix.com.