Senior System and Cloud Engineer
PayPal
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose • Arizona, California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $123,500 - $212,850 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureCloudDockerKubernetesPythonTerraform
About the role
- Design, implement, and manage cloud-based systems and solutions
- Enable business and product teams with their cloud requirements and optimize cloud resources
- Oversee load balancers, Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) equipment, and Content Delivery Network (CDN) platforms
- Handle proactive and reactive outages, vendor coordination, network incidents, escalations, and root cause analysis
- Lead backbone network design and architecture for on-premises and public cloud migration; build hybrid connectivity solutions
- Work with business unit leadership, product managers, and customers to develop project objectives, timelines, and feature requirements
- Support network system availability, manage network capacity, and ensure compliance with Information Security standards
- Deploy equipment, manage SSL certificate hosting and renewal, and build infrastructure for data centers and cloud environments
- Implement and continually improve operational procedures, systems, and network engineering best practices
- Provide on-call support, monitor infrastructure and hosted services, and troubleshoot complex issues
- Manage and influence global teams, mentor team members, and provide guidance and support
- Communicate incident impacts, risks, and mitigation plans to executives and document incident information and best practices
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of experience in cloud engineering or a related field (preferred)
- Proficiency in cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience with configuration/automation tools (Ansible)
- Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash)
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Understanding of networking concepts and security best practices
- Experience with load balancers, Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB), and CDN platforms
- Experience with backbone network design, hybrid connectivity, on-premises to cloud migration
- Experience managing SSL certificate hosting and renewal
- Experience with on-call support, incident management, root cause analysis
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator Associate) are a plus
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field
Benefits
- annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable)
- equity
- medical, dental, vision
- health and life insurance
- employee shares options
- flexible work environment
- balanced hybrid work model: 3 days in the office, 2 days at your choice of office or home workspace
- ability to work from home 2 days per week
- reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
- travel percent: 20
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
cloud engineeringcloud servicesinfrastructure as codeconfiguration toolsscriptingcontainerizationorchestrationnetwork designincident managementroot cause analysis
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationmentoringproblem-solvingcollaborationproject managementincident communicationrisk managementguidancesupport
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions ArchitectAzure Administrator Associate