Western Digital Principal HPC DevOps Engineer 

Ecuador, Azuay 

452439739

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. It’s You & Western Digital. Together, we’re the next BIG thing in data.

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• Design and develop using Infrastructure as Code such that it modular, service oriented and replicable across cloud providers and across regions with high consistency
• Build Observability platforms that can validate and verify the solution at every step and effectively pinpoint the problem
• Actively develop, evolve, and curate cloud principles, patterns, and offerings
• Define and document best practices for delivering technologies on public cloud
• Convert system requirements into Infrastructure as Code to codify system infrastructure
• Perform cloud technology road-mapping & alignments with cloud teams and stakeholders
• Serve as a mentor and help in the development of domain level architects in the HPCaaS cloud and DevOps organization
• Perform architectural and design reviews of cloud systems as well as software systems use of cloud
• Help coordinate multi-disciplinary architecture initiatives and participate in cross-organizational architecture leadership forums
• Collaborate with security teams to design and implement policy controls

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• 6+ years of experience in Linux enterprise service operations, SRE, or Systems Engineering
• Strong experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code
• Strong background in orchestration and automation
• Proficiency in architecting, designing, building Observability platform solutions
• Proficiency with Python programming language
• Extensive knowledge of Infrastructure-as-a-Service delivery models, and public cloud deployments in any of the 3 major platforms (AWS preferred)
• Strong analysis, task management and time management skills
• Self-motivated, self-starter with the ability to work autonomously
• Ability to balance multiple priorities

Infrastructure and Tooling

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
• Configuration Management: Ansible
• CI/CD: Jenkins
• Observability: New Relic, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, SigNoz
• Cloud Computing: AWS, MS Azure, Google Cloud
• Cloud Storage: FSx for Netapp and Lustre
• Programming: Python
• Kubernetes/OpenShift

Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital’s Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.