Who We Are

For more than 23 years, people-driven companies have turned to Sequoia to get their employee experience right. We’re in this business because we know that taking great care of people leads to better business outcomes. Helping our clients achieve those outcomes is what drives our team, our strategic service offerings, and our technology forward.

Sequoia comes through for clients with guidance, service, and the Sequoia People Platform. Through their compensation, benefits, and overall people programs, we enable them to better manage their global workforce, reduce administrative burdens, and reach a deeper level of employee care and support. We strategically use technology to enhance the expert guidance and committed service we bring to every client engagement.

Sequoia is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Infrastructure Engineer with prior MongoDB administration experience. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will be joining a dynamic team that develops and manages our cloud infrastructure. Your expertise in MongoDB and other databases will be essential in maintaining an overall capable and efficient service. This role requires experience supporting hardened security requirements while enabling DevOps practices to ensure an agile and secure environment. In addition to focusing on data storage, you will be driving design, implementation and management of our cloud infrastructure, in collaboration with Sequoia product engineering, security, and data teams.

What You Get to Do:

Ensure that data storage components of the Sequoia platform support the reliability and security of sensitive data and the services that rely on the stored data.
Support the scalability, manageability, and understanding of the technical infrastructure in support of the business roadmap.
Work with stakeholders to anticipate infrastructure requirements, identify risks, and propose solutions meeting established policies, best practices, and the desired outcome.
Participate in architecture design review and implementation.
Modernize infrastructure security posture modernization through process and technology implementations.
Leverage CI/CD and integrate with IaC as much as useful in the course of database administration
Contribute to observability capabilities of the platform and ensure highly granular traceability across the products.
Support quality development through code reviews, collaboration, and research.
Drive programs within the team to achieve the overall KPI/SLA.
Stay current with industry trends; test and adopt new practices and drive constant modernization within the team for continuous improvement.
Prepare documentation for designs, processes, and implementations, and socialize within the company to drive understanding of the platform to current and future team members.
Participate in the incident management end-to-end cycle, including incident response, post-mortems and follow ups.
Participate in on call for infrastructure availability, capability, and security.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics & communication Engineering or a relevant field.
7+ years of experience supporting a cloud-based production infrastructure in a Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
3+ years supporting a self-managed MongoDB installation.
Proficiency scripting with at least one of Python, Golang, or Bash.
Hands-on experience with AWS, Linux, Docker, cloud-based networking, load balancing, network security features, and DNS.
Hands-on experience administering databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Aurora.
Hands-on experience in troubleshooting cloud compute, container, storage and caching services, i.e. EC2, ECS, S3, Redis.
Hands-on experience using Terraform or equivalent IaC platform for cloud configuration. Hands-on experience in Metrics, logging and tracing using observability tools, i.e. Datadog, ELK, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, SIEM tools. Hand-on in project/task management tools such as Jira/Confluence with experience in writing postmortem, knowledge transfer documents.
Participation in CI/CD environments such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, etc., making use of capabilities such as secrets storage, security scans, cloud container repos, and release automation.
Exposure to security vulnerability detection and fixing in platform and products.
Exposure to working with geographically distributed cross teams such as developers, QA, Security, IT, Product and Business analysts, Customer success managers, etc.
Exposure to product and platform optimization initiatives such as POCs, rearchitecting legacy systems, cost management etc.

Sequoia offers team members world class compensation and benefits to support the physical, financial and emotional wellbeing of you and your loved ones. We continuously and purposefully build an inclusive culture, designed to empower everyone to do their best work. Our compensation and benefits are thoughtful, competitive and leading edge, but most of all, they reflect what our people value most. The starting annual base pay salary range for this position is $200,000 - $240,000 with final salary determined by your unique skills, experience and education.

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