Envato
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
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About Envato
Our focus is on helping people to complete their creative projects, with our author community earning every time that happens.
Envato proudly impacts the lives of creatives all over the world, from web developers and graphic designers, to marketers, videographers, photographers and more. We’ve built a community where anyone can get their creative projects done, and where creators bring their ideas to life and in the process, earn a living doing what they love. It doesn’t get much better than that!
We are a global and rapidly scaling business. Blending purpose and profit, we're a passionate B Corp, committed to making a positive impact on the communities we engage in. You can read more about our purpose, mission and values on our website.
We’ve embraced flexibility for a long time - where we can, let’s make work, work for you! Our roles can be based ANYWHERE in Australia or New Zealand, and while we all mostly work from home we’re proud of how we keep our global team connected.
About the role
The Senior Infrastructure Engineer supports the Engineering Manager and the wider engineering team to ensure the reliability and performance of Envato's systems. They will help the team to think long-term about how to support sustainable growth of those systems and uplift the infrastructure skills of the wider team.
Responsibilities
- Driving initiatives to improve reliability, performance and security
- Educating the team so that they have the knowledge and skills to deliver reliable, performant and secure systems
- Ensuring we're improving continuously and learning from our incidents and near-misses
- Collaborates with team to design, build, and provision new infrastructure to support new products, initiatives and solve problems
- Uses software development skills to create software that integrates infrastructure with services and APIs
- Guides, coaches and supports Engineers
- Works to increase the mean-time-between-failures and decrease the mean-time-to-repair of public-facing systems
- Contributes to the improvement of the monitoring and measurement systems that support our operational scale and continuous delivery
- Helps engineering teams to operate the systems required to deliver their products
- Troubleshoots live production issues, facilitates the response to emergency situations and reviews incidents and makes recommendations based on lessons learned
- Recommend performance, efficiency and latency improvements based on performance tuning of the application stack and monitoring systems to help maintain applications at acceptable levels
- Participates in the ongoing process to identify and mitigate risk in Envato systems
Skills & Experience
- Has built and maintained AWS applications and infrastructure
- Has provided a positive contribution to both operations-focused and development-focused work
- Has worked with CDN providers and or DDoS mitigation services to improve service performance and reliability
- Has worked in a culture of shared responsibility between software developers and infrastructure specialists
- Extesive expeirence with monitoring and logging tools
- Passion for and experience in best practice systems operations tools and techniques
- Supporting a large web-based application with global traffic
- Has worked with tools and frameworks for automating infrastructure
- Demonstrable knowledge of caching techniques
- Experience with CloudFlare
- Experience with tools including Datadog, Rollbar and Sumologic
- Experience in other agile environments
- Ideally has experience in building self-healing systems
- Has automated testing of failure scenarios (preferred)
- Has measurably improved the resilience of system (preferred)
Some of the great things we offer
• We provide Mac Pros or HP’s for you to do your best work, as well as providing all your initial and ongoing tech setup to suit your individual needs.
• Home office setup contribution - all employees receive a one off payment of $1000 (AU) / $1200 (NZ) to create or uplift your home office working space
• Monthly contribution to support work from home costs $50 (AU) / $60 (NZ)
• Paid Parental Leave - Envato will top up from the government parental leave scheme so that the Primary Carer receives 20 weeks leave at full pay (with the option to take it as 40 weeks at half pay), and for partner parental leave we offer 3 weeks full pay for eligible team members
• In addition to paid parental leave, we also pay superannuation on the paid and unpaid portion of the Primary Carer period for up to 12 months
• Employees receive an annual individual allowance to connect with colleagues as you choose $150 (AU) / $160 (NZ)
• A performance-based bonus program worth up to 10% annually
• An annual individual Learning & Development budget for each employee
• Free Envato Elements subscription for side gigs/personal use
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Our culture
• We’re B Corp certified & believe in succeeding sustainably as one global team
• Public Holiday Swap - recognising that employees may have different religious and cultural practices, as well as different political beliefs, Envato's Public Holiday Swap policy allows employees to swap up to 4 public holidays a year for another day of significance
• We support the flexibility to work from anywhere (and the opportunity to combine work & travel) by supporting our people to work from almost any location in the world for up to 3 months every year, and offering up to 20 days of additional purchased leave
• We removed standard hours from our employment contracts to empower our people to work in a way that makes sense to them
• We are committed to supporting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of our people. Through our Health & Wellbeing program, Thrive, we offer a range of options and benefits throughout the year
• We support working parents through a range of initiatives, including being a proud partner with Grace Papers
• As part of our values and vision, Envato contributes 2% of profits to charities in each of the three main countries we operate in (Australia, Mexico, and the US)
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Envato: Leading marketplace for premium digital assets and creative services, empowering global creatives to bring ideas to life.
- Founded
- Founded 2006
- Employees
- 500+ employees
- Industry
- Professional Services
Senior Infrastructure Engineer