Principal Cloud Automation Engineer

Here at Anaplan, we have reinvented how companies see, plan, and run their businesses. Our platform allows our customers to uncover new insights, connect their strategy to their plans, and work in ways they had not previously thought possible. We're growing fast, constantly innovating, and couldn't be prouder to help our customers move forward with confidence in a sophisticated and changing world.

We are looking for forward-thinking people who put customer experience at the forefront of every decision. Individuals who thrive on challenges and are ready to grasp the opportunity of a lifetime. Because we fundamentally believe every colleague brings outstanding value to our whole. We are a workplace where each person feels seen, heard, and valued, and can contribute their unique talent to our collective effort. We believe that for ourselves and for our customers.

At Anaplan, we are looking for a self-motivated Principal Cloud Automation Engineer professional to join our growing team at Anaplan US, to be a member of the Foundation Engineering team, working across San Francisco, US, London, UK, and York, UK. This is an opportunity for you to work for one of the coolest hyper-growth companies in technology.

As a Principal Cloud Automation Engineer , you will fully own multi-cloud and private cloud infrastructure. You will support Anaplan's production platform across its hybrid infrastructure.

We're looking for someone who thrives in a changing environment. Has a desire to develop a deep understanding of our system and is excited to solve challenging problems at scale while delivering new capabilities to our rapidly growing number of customers. This role is an immediate full-time position. If you're ready to roll up your sleeves and tackle unique problems that no one is solving in the tech space yet, keep reading.

Your Impact

• Design and implement highly scalable infrastructure in multi-cloud (AWS/GCP/Private cloud)

• Implementing Infra architecture using IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Docker

• Build the Infrastructure configuration code taking into consideration reuse, extensibility, and scalability requirements of the Anaplan Platform.

• Build the vital testing automation for testing the infrastructure being built/configured

• Assists the team with the integration of the application with the infrastructure components

• Develop a framework for automating Day 0,1,2 infrastructure operations across a hybrid cloud

• Lead discussion of good practices/strategies for automation and integrations with different infrastructure services

• Visit and work across Anaplan sites in the US and Europe as required (minimal travel is needed, applicants must be willing and eligible)

• Provisioning, estimating cost and capacity as we scale to increase availability with our production environments

• Develop technical discipline across organizations and Anaplan sites to strengthen alignment to standard methodologies and eliminate technical debt

• Be an idea maker, as we scale and ingest more data you will need to recommend and implement new technology solutions

Your Qualifications

• Experience with Python or Shell for scripting, and Git or similar version control systems.

• Solid understanding of automation tools (Ansible/Chef/Puppet).

• Operational experience at scale and deep knowledge of operating systems (Linux/Unix) and networking.

• Knowledge of standard methodologies and operations in an always-up always available environment

• Experience with Virtualization technologies such as VMware/KVM

• Experience working with Rest APIs to integrate Infrastructure components and build automation pipelines using tools like Terraform, packer, Ansible, etc

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Skills

• Terraform/Packer

• Ansible/Chef/Puppet

• Python/Shell/Go

• RHEL/CentOS

• GIT

• AWS/GCP/Azure

• CI/CD

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• VMWare

• Network Switches

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COVID-19

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