WHAT IS BOX?
Box is the market leader for Cloud Content Management. Our mission is to power how the world works together. Box is partnering with enterprise organizations to accelerate their digital transformation by creating a single platform for secure content management, collaboration & workflow. We have an amazing opportunity to further establish ourselves as leaders in the space, & we need strong advocates to help us achieve that goal. By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to help capture a majority of this developing market & define what content management looks like for the digital enterprise. Today, Box powers 100,000+ businesses, including many top Fortune 500 companies who trust our secure collaboration platform to manage the entire content lifecycle.
WHY BOX NEEDS YOU
The Platform Foundation team's mission is to transform the way developers build services by providing a common platform to configure, deploy & run applications seamlessly across different regions of the world so that they can deliver exceptional products. Our team manages Box's Platform as a Service (PaaS) based on Kubernetes. With Box being an early adopter, supporter, & contributor of Kubernetes, you will work for the company that introduced kubectl, kube-state-metrics, kube-applier, & kube-exec-controller to the open-source community. Every team & service at Box relies on our platform & we are looking for a passionate technical leader for this team. This is where you come in!
We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to develop our Kubernetes platform & maintain its stability as well as drive the functionality, capability & efficiency of our infrastructure to the next level. You will be the technical lead inside the cloud native team to design, develop, automate, & continuously improve cluster life cycle management, platform services & pipelines, such as monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, CI/CD, etc. We are looking for a passionate engineer to join & collaborate with Cloud Native partner teams, Box developer community & open-source communities to advance Kubernetes & Cloud Native technologies.
LOCATION
This role is located at our Redwood City office. Employees based from a Box office hub are expected to visit the office 2+ days per week on average.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design, deploy, & maintain Kubernetes clusters across GKE & EKS environments
- Develop & maintain automation tools for deploying & managing Kubernetes clusters
- Monitor & troubleshoot GKE & EKS components to ensure high availability & performance in a large-scale enterprise environment
- Implement security best practices for Kubernetes infrastructure & services
- Participate in our Kubernetes on-call schedule.
- Proactively & continuously improve the reliability, scalability, & performance of our Kubernetes infrastructure
- Manage our CI/CD pipelines & other DevOps tools & processes
- Work closely with developers to ensure that their applications are properly deployed & configured in Kubernetes
WHO YOU ARE
Required skills:
- At least 5 years of experience deploying, managing & operating multiple GKE/EKS clusters & large-scale container workloads in prod environments.
- At least 5 years experience managing & deploying IaC via Terraform
- At least 3 years of experience monitoring & observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, & Elasticsearch
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience in automation in declarative fashion using Terraform, Ansible & in imperative languages like shell scripting & python scripting
- Experience with Kubernetes CNI deployment & troubleshooting, including (but not limited to) the following CNIs: Calico, Cilium
- Good understanding & working knowledge on CI/CD processes with products like Jira, Git, Artifactory, Jenkins & etc across multiple systems (application & infrastructure)
- Good understanding & working knowledge about various microservices like spring boot or nodejs
Preferred skills:
- Kubernetes operator & controller development.
- FinOps knowledge
- Experience with performing POC technical evaluations for new technologies for use in the Cloud.
Head-over-heels about this role but not sure you meet all the requirements? Apply anyway! Studies have shown that women & people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Box, we take a big-picture approach to hiring that fosters authenticity, diversity, & inclusion. If you're passionate about this opportunity, chances are, you shine pretty bright.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
We are an equal opportunity employer & value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, & any other protected ground of discrimination under applicable human rights legislation. Box strives to respect the dignity & independence of people with disabilities & is committed to giving them the same opportunity to succeed as all other employees. Inclusiveness is core to our culture at Box, & we strive to ensure you get the most from your interview experience. Box makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please complete this form Reasonable accommodations may include scheduling adjustments, document dictation & beyond.
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