You are a thoughtful engineering leader who is passionate about building the best infrastructure to support both our internal teams and VSCO’s global community. You thrive at the intersection of mentoring and growing a team, while simultaneously being hands-on and delivering high quality systems and tools. Solving technical scalability challenges is a core motivator for you. You question the status quo and seek to continually create better efficiencies.
VSCO is looking for an Infrastructure Manager to lead and guide the team responsible for building and maintaining our foundational technology. Every experience our creators have stems from the building blocks you put in place. You will hone in on the technology we deliver and manage, ensuring it’s automated, secure, efficient, reliable, and scalable. In addition, you will craft targeted coaching strategies to grow your team. You will have a significant impact in our high-growth environment.
The day-to-day
Partner with other engineering leaders at VSCO to identify, plan and deliver impactful solutions to pain points experienced by your partnering engineering teams
Own and participate in on-call rotations and policies for the engineering department - this includes driving efficient incident management practices involving communication with leadership teams
Continue to build best in class solutions for VSCO’s infrastructure using Chef/Puppet, AWS, Datadog, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins/CircleCI, Envoy, Terraform, MySQL, and MongoDB
Cultivate and build a SLI/SLO/SLA focused engineering culture
Collaborate with your peers and leadership to help define our technical direction and product/project roadmaps
Balancing the day-to-day with the bigger picture and longer-term vision
Qualifications
4+ years experience operating high scale cloud infrastructure at consumer internet companies
2+ years experience leading an engineering team
Experience building areas of expertise and ownership for your team by providing personal and technical coaching
Possess a collaborative mindset always - you embody a one team approach to decision making
Experienced with Linux systems (Ubuntu)
Deep understanding of Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)
Nice to have
A deep appreciation for photography and/or other aspects of the arts
Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent relevant work experience