The role involves maintaining and enhancing Planet's corporate infrastructure and applications, focusing on automation, high-availability environments, and network operations to ensure reliable internal IT systems and support company growth.
Key Responsibilities
Ensure the continuous operation of Planet's internal IT systems
Develop and enhance infrastructure and applications
Automate network tasks, configuration management, and data collection using scripting languages
Manage network configurations as code using IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, or SaltStack
Design, deploy, and maintain high-availability environments with networking hardware
Participate in on-call rotation and improve incident response and root cause analysis processes
Collaborate with security and IT teams to embed reliability, scalability, and security best practices
Requirements
6 years experience in infrastructure development and or operations
Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
Expertise with a scripting language like Python
Track record of working with large web applications or computer clusters
Hands-on experience with Linux deployment and administration
Advanced experience using configuration management tools i.e. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack in a production environment (specifically Salt and Terraform)
Solid understanding of Network principles and operations
Advanced experience with LAN WAN technologies, protocols and best practices, e.g. BGP
Architect, deploy, and maintain high-availability environments using Juniper Junos, Arista EOS, and HP Aruba switching routing platforms
Participate in an on-call rotation and drive the continuous improvement of incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-mortem processes
Collaborate closely with Security and other IT teams to embed reliability, scalability, and security best practices from the ground up
Access to U.S. and German EU export-controlled information, with the ability to do so without additional export licensing being required by German, EU, or U.S. authorities
Benefits & Perks
Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
Employee Wellness Program
Home Office Reimbursement
Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
Equity
Volunteering Paid Time Off
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