Staff Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure
| Company | Exelixis |
|---|---|
| Location | Alameda, CA, USA |
| Salary | $141500 – $201000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in related discipline and eight years of related experience; or
- Master’s degree in related discipline and four years of related experience; or
- PhD degree in related discipline and four years of related experience; or
- Equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), especially with services related to hosting: EC2, RDS, Systems Manager, IAM, etc.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools & DevOps practices, especially Terraform
- Experience with virtualization platforms, especially VMWare VCenter & ESX server
- Experience with Microsoft Active Directory & Windows and Linux Operating Systems
- Experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
- Experience in cloud and infrastructure automation
- Experience with virtualization technologies
- Ability to effectively work in cross-functional teams with various backgrounds, personalities, and skill levels
- Strong customer-facing, oral, written, and verbal skills to effectively interface with business partners, stakeholders, and technical staff
- Ability to define and articulate complex architectures and processes
- Ability to work with minimal guidance, to adapt to frequent priority changes, and response to ad-hoc requests
Responsibilities
- Modernize traditional server hosting by adopting cloud services, designing, and evaluating technical architectures for new services and features with stakeholders and leveraging innovative and latest technology developments through new implementation and enhancements to existing ones
- Clearly articulate technical architecture (current and future state diagrams, solution best practices, reference architectures, design patterns) as determined by business requirements and other factors
- Leads key technical discussions and considerations around transformative technology from both a technical and non-technical perspective
- Collaborate with security teams to incorporate strong security controls, apply security best practices in our code development life cycle
- Drive product centricity by focusing on capabilities and value vs. technologies and tasks
- Act as the technical product owner for key hosting services, including on-prem and cloud infrastructure and automation
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.