Senior Compute Infrastructure Engineer

About the Company

The open ocean is Earth’s largest and most power-dense renewable energy resource. Panthalassa is harnessing that resource to generate the cheapest energy on the planet. Our mission is to provide abundant and affordable clean energy for everyone.

Founded in 2016 and based in the Pacific Northwest, our team comes from diverse backgrounds in aerospace, naval architecture, marine operations, hardware, software, and research.

About the Job

We are developing technology that will operate in the worst conditions the world’s oceans have to offer for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention. Building this technology requires collaboration across teams and tools. Our internal computing infrastructure and software applications are fundamental to the operation of our overall business and our technology systems in the field.

You will take shared responsibility for building and operating our internal computing infrastructure platforms and the many business-critical applications that run upon them. The ideal candidate will understand performance, availability, and security requirements for the company’s infrastructure, networks, and applications. You will architect and develop technology solutions to business problems and directly implement and operate them. You should have extensive experience with Windows and Linux systems administration, operating system configuration management, virtualized/cloud-hosted/containerized infrastructure, IP networking, and infrastructure security. You should be able to employ a first-principles, fundamental logic-based approach to problem solving while building highly-secured, performant and reliable systems.

Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills and be able to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis. Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, Virgin Orbit, Virgin Galactic, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries. We are organized as a public benefit corporation, and we are backed by leading venture capital firms, private investors, philanthropic investors, and endowments.

Responsibilities

Collaboratively architect, build, and operate internal and external-facing computing infrastructure in on-premise datacenter and cloud-hosted environments

Design and implement automated tools and processes for hosting commodity and internally-developed software applications reliably, performantly, and securely

Develop infrastructure-as-code software to support and enable the operation of platform and application workloads

Deploy, operate, monitor, upgrade and migrate business applications to ensure reliable and scalable performance that meets the needs of our users

Implement agreed-upon solutions, including deploying new servers, network equipment, applications, end-user devices, and other equipment

Manage and administer third-party SaaS applications used by the company

Monitor systems, applications and networks to identify problems and threats

Respond to incidents when they occur to maintain business continuity and security

Document system architecture, procedures, and protocols

Required Qualifications

Ability to work in our Portland, OR headquarters

Legal authorization to work in the United States

5+ years of directly relevant experience

Extensive experience with modern Windows, Linux and MacOS system administration using automated tools and processes

Infrastructure automation with configuration management and IaC tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, etc.

Experience building on-premise or cloud-hosted Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) and virtualized/containerized application hosting platforms

Experience designing, building, and improving networks, including experience in IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls and high-availability architecture

Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, PowerShell, etc.

Ability to rapidly build understanding and expertise in new technologies, software packages, and programming languages

Ability to think independently about potential solutions – including the novel or uncommon – rather than implementing industry standards if they will not achieve the desired outcome

Desired Qualifications

10+ years of directly relevant working and/or research experience

Comfort working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities

Experience supporting software development teams in the practice of building/testing/deploying/operating custom software applications, especially IoT software and hardware

Experience deploying and maintaining engineering-focused software (e.g. Siemens NX, Ansys, other CAD/CAM/Simulation/FEA software)

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