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The role
Mozilla Corporation, maker of Firefox, is hiring a Staff Operations Engineer to lead design and reliability of its hybrid-cloud and workplace infrastructure. The role spans IT, SRE and security teams and mixes hands-on work with technical direction.
What you will do
- Own and evolve architecture within a defined infrastructure domain, and contribute to 6-18 month strategy
- Lead migrations, re-architectures and reliability or performance improvements
- Design core components such as compute, DNS, networking and identity
- Define SLIs/SLOs, run root cause analysis for complex incidents and reduce toil through automation
- Build automation with scripting and infrastructure as code, and keep runbooks and diagrams current
- Mentor engineers and work across IT, SRE, Security and service owners
What they ask for
- 6+ years in systems engineering or infrastructure roles
- Experience designing and operating production infrastructure
- Expertise in VMware, Cisco UCS, application and network load balancers, and Linux/Unix
- Networking fundamentals: DNS, TCP/IP, routing, firewalls
- Data center experience
- Ability to lead complex technical work across teams
- Preferred: infrastructure as code (Puppet or Ansible), Python, observability tooling
What they offer
- Performance-based bonus plans
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement contributions with immediate vesting
- Quarterly company wellness days and a birthday day off
- One-time home office stipend and quarterly well-being stipend
- Annual professional development budget and paid parental leave
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Mozilla's careers page behind the apply button.
