The Role
Lead infrastructure design and operations with a focus on cloud services. Collaborate with teams to ensure high availability, efficiency and compliance across systems while mentoring engineers and driving technology adoption.
Summary Generated by Built In
Keyloop bridges the gap between dealers, manufacturers, technology suppliers and car buyers.
We empower car dealers and manufacturers to fully embrace digital transformation. How? By creating innovative technology that makes selling cars better for our customers, and buying and owning cars better for theirs.
We use cutting-edge technology to link our clients’ systems, departments and sites. We provide an open technology platform that’s shaping the industry for the future. We use data to help clients become more efficient, increase profitability and give more customers an amazing experience. Want to be part of it?
Role overview:
We are seeking an experienced architect to lead a core part of our infrastructure through generation of recommendations and thought leadership. This role ensures alignment with business objectives, compliance standards, and industry best practices while driving innovation and efficiency within Infrastructure Operations.
Compute related services include, but are not limited to, such areas as:
Servers & hypervisors (EC2, VMWare/Nutanix/Dell/HP/Lenovo)
Storage technologies (S3, Dell/IBM: PowerMax, Unity, SVC, VMAX)
Data Protection & Backup solutions (AWS Backup, Rubrik, Netbackup)
Privileged Access Management (BeyondTrust)
Operating systems (Windows, Linux, AIX, IBMi). Operating environments (Microsoft RDS, Active Directory, SCCM (MS Patching), Foreman (Linux patching), syslog)
Certificate management
Key responsibilities:
- Design, build and service ownership of the infrastructure and tools used within our global data centre & cloud locations. Provide thought leadership across the technology spectrum. Work across our technology SMEs to deliver enterprise grade infrastructure and solutions.
- Work closely with application teams, DevOps, and security teams to deliver integrated solutions. Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to infrastructure engineers.
- As a senior member of the team, you should be able to influence decisions and strategy across the business through persuasion and being able to clearly articulate needs and reasoning of designs/alternatives to move towards to a desired outcome.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption where beneficial.
- Drive automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency. Ensure that we are operationalising infrastructure, technologies and solutions so that that they can be properly onboard into, and supported, by our hosting/infrastructure operations teams
- Drive technology improvements and consolidations. Conducting technology, tooling and solution comparisons & POCs.
- Generate technology roadmaps and drive team projects to complete on time.
- Designing and delivery of any none standard solutions
- Create and peer review design documentation for our solutions and services.
- Owning capacity planning and technical debt, facilitating discussion and delivering meaningful improvements via KPIs.
Skillsets & experience
- Key skills / experience:
- Proven experience in large scale data centre infrastructure architecture (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and cloud technologies (preferably AWS).
- Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform/Ansible), with familiarity of DevOps practices and deployment pipelines.
- Experience of CIS standards for Operating System images and infrastructure. Security is at our core.
- Experience of infrastructure audits. Provide and maintain collateral & evidence generation to support ISO27001/SOC1/SOC2 audit processes.
- Experience of Operating systems. Management, hardening and ownership of Golden Images (Windows & Linux in DCs and cloud, AIX and IBMi in DCs)
- Have experience of diverse Operating environments, functionality & tooling: Microsoft RDS, Active Directory, OS patching and config management, system logging.
- Be comfortable debating technologies and processes, with the ultimate goal of harmonising to a single set of strategies and tech stacks
- As well as being task driven, you have extensive experience of being accountable for project delivery. Working across multiple stakeholders to unblock initiatives and ensuring initiatives are delivered on time and to budget.
Why join us?
We’re on a journey to become market leaders in our space – and with that comes some incredible opportunities. Collaborate and learn from industry experts from all over the globe. Work with game-changing products and services. Get the training and support you need to try new things, adapt to quick changes and explore different paths. Join Keyloop and progress your career, your way.
An inclusive environment to thrive
We’re committed to fostering an inclusive work environment. One that respects all dimensions of diversity. We promote an inclusive culture within our business, and we celebrate different employees and lifestyles – not just on key days, but every day.
Be rewarded for your efforts
We believe people should be paid based on their performance so our pay and benefits reflect this and are designed to attract the very best talent. We encourage everyone in our organisation to explore opportunities which enable them to grow their career through investment in their development but equally by working in a culture which fosters support and unbridled collaboration.
Keyloop doesn’t require academic qualifications for this position. We select based on experience and potential, not credentials.
We are also an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We value diversity and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
Top Skills
Active Directory
Aix
Ansible
AWS
Aws Backup
Beyondtrust
Dell
Ec2
Foreman
Hp
Ibmi
Lenovo
Linux
Microsoft Rds
Netbackup
Nutanix
Powermax
Rubrik
S3
Sccm
Svc
Terraform
Unity
Vmax
VMware
Windows
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The Company
What We Do
As the largest global automotive technology company, Keyloop delivers cutting-edge solutions, tailored to the modern needs of auto retailers and OEMs alike. With 40 years of automotive DNA, and a deep understanding of what it takes to drive success, Keyloop solutions are delivered in over 90 countries, and trusted by more 20,000 retailers and 80 OEMs worldwide.
From the showroom to the workshop, and everything in between, its technology facilitates distinctive customer experiences between key systems, tools and departments. With modern consumers demanding increasingly high levels of service and responsiveness, Keyloop and their partners connect retailers and OEMs to consumers through every step of their journey.
Keyloop delivers a proven technology ecosystem that redesigns the automotive retail experience to cultivate lasting loyalty and optimise margins through increased efficiency, elevated experiences, and unrivalled connected data.
For more information, please visit www.keyloop.com
