Senior Production Engineer (Cloud)

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

Job Duties

We are currently seeking multiple highly proficient CloudOps with a strong dedication to constructing infrastructure and platforms within the Cloud environment. In this role, you will closely collaborate with architects and software developers to facilitate the delivery of our services to an extensive user base of Yahoo Mail users.

As a critical team contributor, you will engage collaboratively with cross-functional stakeholders to architect, deploy, and operate Yahoo Mail’s cloud infrastructure, ensuring seamless migration of large-scale on-premises applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Key duties include comprehensive infrastructure administration, proactive monitoring, on-call operations support, enforcement of security standards, deployment automation, implementation of CI/CD pipelines, and development of reusable infrastructure templates using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks. Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in automating cloud operations through robust, programmable and secure solutions.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field.

• A minimum of 5+ years of experience in supporting Site Reliability, DevOps, Infrastructure, and handling on-call duties within Cloud environments, with a preference for experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Proficiency in managing GCP services, including Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Compute Engine (GCE), Networking, Security, CI/CD pipelines, and other common Cloud technologies.

• Proven experience working with very large-scale applications, computer systems, and networks.

• Proficiency in Linux, TCP/IP, HTTP, MAIL protocols, DNS, content delivery networks (CDN), load balancers, and troubleshooting techniques.

• Proficiency in constructing Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Helm Charts.

• Proficiency in programming using Python, Golang, or Java, along with the ability to build CI/CD pipelines for deploying services in these languages.

• Experience with the following is considered an advantage:

  • Cloud databases and storage platforms, such as Storage Services (GCS), Cloud SQL, Spanner, Memorystore

  • Machine Learning and AI platforms, such as Vertex AI, Generative AI, BigQuery, Looker and DataProc

  • Cloud Observability, Open telemetry

What Makes you Outstanding:

• You have proven track records in migrating on-prem infrastructure to GCP.

• You have years of operational experience in both On-prem and cloud environments.

• You are able to build the cloud services, including GKE and Spanner, from scratch using IaC (Terraform) and various build and CICD tools. 

• You are a collaborative team player and have a continuous improvement mindset.

• You have good conversation and presentation skills to explain architecture and design of cloud technologies to senior engineering architects.

• You know how to set sprint goals to be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and know the process of backlog refining, prioritizing backlog items and being an active participant in sprint planning sessions.

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

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