GCP Cloud Engineer
| Company | Wayfair |
|---|---|
| Location | Toronto, ON, Canada |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in platform engineering/SRE/Cloud Engineer roles using an object oriented language (Python, Golang, etc)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience working with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, etc)
- Expertise working within a Public Cloud environment (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc) and related networking concepts
- Extensive experience working with Kubernetes in a public cloud (GKE, EKS, AKS, etc)
- Experience working with CI/CD tools such as Argo, Buildkite, TravisCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, etc
- Experience working with platform observability tools (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Fluentbit, Cloud Monitoring, Google Cloud Logging, Datadog, Pagerduty, Cloudwatch, Kibana, Elastic Search, Splunk, VictorOps, etc)
- Experience with Networking
- Experience and desire to work in an agile environment
- Analytical mindset and passion for solving business problems with technology
Responsibilities
- Work on a team of extremely talented platform engineers to help maintain and scale the current and future state services platform at Wayfair
- Help architect and develop the future state compute platform by leveraging industry best practices as well as embracing new technologies to support the future growth of Wayfair as a business
- Help influence the product roadmaps of GCP (our primary cloud provider) to better suit Wayfair’s future state architecture
- Drive our network evolution as a GCP-focused Cloud Network Engineer, architecting and operating robust Google Cloud networking solutions
- Master GCP Interconnects, Cloud Router configurations (BGP, BFD, route policies), GCP Firewalls, and VPC design
- Support our hybrid environment (20% scope) via Equinix Fabric and Azure (ExpressRoute/vWAN, NSGs) is also key, leveraging strong skills in NAT, IPSEC VPNs, 802.1q, and network troubleshooting
- Work collaboratively with business and technical stakeholders to develop and architect enhancements to the compute platform capabilities that enable them to develop and iterate applications to power the Wayfair business
- Identify opportunities to introduce automation, improvements to avoid repetitive operational tasks (DRY)
- Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure operational excellence and overall platform health
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with Istio/Service Mesh
- Experience working with Dev Testing tools and patterns such as Garden, Flagger, Canary Deployments, Blue/Green Testing, A/B Testing
- Experience setting up and working with Kubernetes Admission Control (Kyverno, OPA, etc)
- Experience working with workload scaling (HPA, VPA, Capacity Planning/Reservations, etc)