Infrastructure Platform Engineer (Chef)

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• You will act as a local expert in distributed systems and configuration management best practices.
• You will build, design and maintain the platform automation infrastructure using Chef.
• You are able to develop and evangelize sound automation practices enterprise-wide for thousands of engineers.
• You will maintain documentation, training and SLAs for globally managed infrastructure.

• You have recent experience designing reusable infrastructure using Chef best practices.
• You have experience with functional and object-oriented programming best practices & design patterns.
• You have a proven track-record of building and designing reliable, scalable service-oriented web applications/services.
• You have worked on and understand distributed systems and large scale engineering challenges.
• You have a minimum of 2-3 years of experience with Ruby and/or Chef.
• You are a fast learner, capable and willing to use the right tools to get the job done.
• You have previous experience implementing a new, large-scale configuration management& automation infrastructure.
• You have significant experience with configuration management in a mission critical production environment.