Company Summary:
Zoro is an eCommerce company that’s on a mission to help business owners get everything they need to run their businesses and thrive–from office supplies to power tools. But we’re way more than a website. We’re a team of great people with an award-winning culture. Check us out and see for yourself!
Job Summary:
As a Senior Software Engineer of Cloud on the Cloud Foundations Team, you will play a pivotal role in building and maintaining the cloud-based components that form the backbone of our business. Your expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools will be crucial in designing and implementing scalable, automated solutions for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
Proficiency in cloud platforms such as GCP and AWS is essential, as you will be responsible for consulting with our stakeholders on best practices while optimizing costs. Your mastery of Kubernetes and Helm will enable you to orchestrate and deploy containerized applications seamlessly. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand their requirements and translating them into efficient infrastructure solutions.
As a senior member, you'll be expected to lead initiatives, mentor junior team members, and stay abreast of industry best practices to ensure our Cloud Foundations Framework remains cutting-edge and reliable. If you thrive in a dynamic environment, are passionate about automation, and possess a deep understanding of cloud technologies, we invite you to join our team and contribute to the evolution of our cloud environments.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- You will participate in a production on-call rotation in order to ensure our systems are stable beyond predictable measures.
- You will leverage your expertise, curiosity, and problem-solving skills to contribute to the design and development of our Cloud Foundations Framework.
- You will work on a team of engineers where you will provide value in a myriad of ways including systems design/development, coaching your peers, and evangelizing our products.
- You will work directly with stakeholders and partners throughout the business in order to understand and gather insights around their work so that we can leverage that information to build valuable features for them.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience across the entire SDLC, including CI/CD tools with configuration and release management, deployments, and troubleshooting in cloud environments.
- An enjoyment of technical challenges and eagerness to explore new approaches.
- An Agile mindset with the ability to adapt to changing priorities and requirements in addition to participating in retrospectives focused on identifying contributing causes and providing actionable solutions to prevent them from recurring.
- Fault analysis/determination and problem-solving skills are a must.
- Ability to effectively communicate technical issues and status to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Expert with source control tooling, such as GIT, in a team environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Extensive experience engineering, deploying, and managing cloud resources and automated solutions specifically designed to provision functional, scalable, and secure cloud environments.
- Extensive knowledge of IAM as a cloud service and associated best practices/patterns
- Extensive experience with programming, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) languages to automate tasks/services (e.g. Bash, Terraform, Python, etc.).
- Expert in data archiving, backup, and disaster recovery using managed cloud services.
- Mastery of the commonly used managed services in cloud-native environments (GCP, AWS, Azure) with an equivalent knowledge of their APIs/CLIs.
- Strong understanding of container management and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of virtualization
- Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems (RHEL/CentOS/Debian)
- Strong knowledge of IP networking, VPNs, VPCs, DNS, load balancers, security groups, and firewalls.
Zoro Values and Inclusive Culture:
Zoro is dedicated to fostering an environment where people of all backgrounds and beliefs are represented and valued. We aim to empower all of our employees to learn about, raise awareness of, and promote diversity and inclusion through all of our workplace interactions. Zoro is a place where everyone can learn, grow, and thrive.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
