IT Infrastructure Engineer, Enterprise & Endpoint Engineering

IT Infrastructure Engineer, Enterprise & Endpoint Engineering

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Security and Enterprise Engineer II

Candidates for this position must be based in Toronto, Canada and will be expected to comply with their team\’s hybrid work schedule requirements.

The salary range for this position is 53,000 – 58,500 EUR per year. The base salary offered may vary depending on location, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Restricted stock units will also be provided as part of the compensation package.

Who We Are:

We are seeking a Security and Enterprise Engineer II to join our IT team responsible for the overall support, maintenance, and administration of our IT Infrastructure across both our on‑premises and cloud environments. This role is critical in ensuring the smooth operation, security, and scalability of our server infrastructure, including the management of VMware, Camera/Security platforms and cloud‑hosted services such as Papercut, Postfix, Ansible, Dell OpenManage, and Actifio among other systems.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced Security and Enterprise Engineer II to work with both on‑premises and cloud‑hosted environments in a large‑scale enterprise setting. You’ll be part of a dynamic team that ensures the reliability, scalability, and security of key infrastructure components in an evolving, hybrid IT landscape.

What You’ll Do:

• Windows Server Administration: Install, configure, and maintain Windows Server 2016/2019/2022 systems across on‑premises and cloud environments, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
• Security Patching and Updates: Regularly apply security patches and updates to on‑premises and cloud‑based servers to ensure compliance and protect against vulnerabilities.
• VMware Virtualization: Support VMware environments by maintaining ESXi hosts, vSphere, and managing virtual machines, ensuring high availability and performance. Additionally, maintain health of physical/on‑prem infrastructure and partner with external resources to procure parts/service when required.
• Hybrid Cloud Integration: Work on integrating on‑premises infrastructure with cloud platforms, including hybrid identity management, cloud storage solutions, and ensuring secure connectivity between environments.
• Cloud Service Optimization: Monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure resources for performance and cost efficiency, making adjustments as needed to maintain high service availability.
• Disaster Recovery and Backup: Participate in disaster recovery planning and execution for both on‑premises and cloud systems, ensuring robust backup solutions and regular recovery testing.
• Monitoring and Automation: Leverage monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog) and PowerShell/DSC scripting to automate tasks, optimize server management, and improve response times for incidents.
• Incident Response and Problem Management: Lead or participate in root cause analysis for critical infrastructure incidents, providing solutions to prevent future occurrences.
• Collaboration and Cross‑Functional Support: Work closely with networking, security, and application teams to support hybrid cloud environments and ensure seamless integration across services.
• Technical Documentation and Best Practices: Maintain up‑to‑date documentation for both on‑premises and cloud infrastructure configurations, standard operating procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Potential for Occasional Work Outside of Normal Working Hours: In managing critical IT systems, this role may require some work outside normal business hours.

We Are a Match Because You Have:

• 6+ Years of Windows Server Experience: Strong experience managing Windows Server in large enterprise environments, including hybrid cloud setups.
• Active Directory Expertise: In‑depth knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policy, LDAP, and Azure Active Directory for secure and scalable identity management.
• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), managing virtual machines, storage, networking, and cloud security.
• Hypervisor expertise: Proven experience working with VMware ESXi and vCenter or Hyper‑V and virtual machine lifecycle management.
• Networking Knowledge: Experience with managing DNS, DHCP, VPN, and other network services in both on‑premises and cloud environments.
• PowerShell Scripting: Ability to automate server management tasks and configurations using PowerShell/DSC/Terraform (including Infrastructure as Code), with a focus on both on‑premises and cloud‑based solutions.
• Backup and Disaster Recovery: Experience designing and managing backup strategies and disaster recovery plans for both local and cloud‑based infrastructure.
• Security Compliance: Knowledge of security best practices for both on‑premises and cloud infrastructure, including patch management, firewall configurations, and access control.
• Monitoring Tools: Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Thousand Eyes, Axonius, or other cloud and on‑premises server monitoring solutions.
• Incident Response: Experience leading incident management processes and driving root cause analysis for infrastructure issues.
• Occasional travel may be required and would at most be 10% of your working hours.

Nice-to-Have:

• Azure or GCP Certifications: Certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, or Google Cloud Certified.
• Experience with Hybrid Cloud: Hands‑on experience with hybrid cloud deployments, including secure data migration between on‑premises and cloud environments.
• Storage Solutions: Experience with cloud storage services such as Google Cloud Storage, as well as SAN/NAS management in a hybrid environment.
• Automation Tools: Knowledge of infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible or Azure Resource Manager (ARM) for cloud deployments.
• Security Best Practices: Understanding server hardening, cloud identity security, and network firewall management in hybrid environments.
• Communication and leadership skills for work with secondary teams and leading small groups.

Key Competencies:

• Strong problem‑solving and analytical skills, with the ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently.
• Communication and Team Collaboration: Excellent interpersonal skills to work effectively across different teams and support both on‑premises and cloud infrastructures.
• Organizational Skills: Ability to prioritize and manage critical tasks, including cloud infrastructure monitoring and optimization.
• Continual Learning: Passion for keeping up with the latest technologies, particularly around cloud services and hybrid infrastructure models.
• Knowing when to escalate and share ownership in difficult situations.

Software Engineer III, Service Lifecycle

Candidates for this position must be based in Toronto, Canada and will be expected to comply with their team\’s hybrid work schedule requirements.

The salary range for this position is 192,047 – 211,914 CAD per year. The base salary offered may vary depending on location, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Restricted stock units will also be provided as part of the compensation package.

Who We Are:

Wayfair runs the largest custom e‑commerce large parcel network in the United States, approximately 1.6 million square meters of logistics space. The nature of the network is inherently a highly variable ecosystem that requires flexible, reliable, and resilient systems to operate efficiently. We are looking for a passionate Platform Engineer to join the Service Lifecycle team at Wayfair.

What You’ll Do:

• Work on a team of extremely talented platform engineers to help maintain and grow the current and future state services platform at Wayfair.
• Help architect and develop the future state compute platform by leveraging industry best practices as well as embracing new technologies to support the future growth of Wayfair as a business.
• Help influence the product roadmaps of Google Cloud Platform (our primary cloud provider) to better suit Wayfair’s future state architecture.
• Work collaboratively with business and technical stakeholders to develop and architect enhancements to the compute platform capabilities that enable them to develop and iterate applications to power the Wayfair business.
• Identify opportunities to introduce automation, improvements to avoid repetitive operational tasks (DRY).
• Participate in the on‑call rotation to ensure operational excellence and overall platform health.

We Are a Match Because You Have:

• 4+ years of experience in platform engineering/SRE roles using an object‑oriented language (Python, Golang, etc).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Extensive experience working with Kubernetes in a public cloud (GKE, EKS, AKS, etc).
• Experience working with Istio/Service Mesh.
• Experience working with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, etc).
• Experience working within a Public Cloud environment (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc).
• Experience working with CI/CD tools such as Argo, Buildkite, TravisCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, etc.
• Experience working with platform observability tools (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Fluentbit, Cloud Monitoring, Google Cloud Logging, Datadog, Pagerduty, Cloudwatch, Kibana, Elastic Search, Splunk, VictorOps, etc).
• Experience with Networking.
• Experience and desire to work in an agile environment.
• Analytical mindset and passion for solving business problems with technology.

Nice To Haves:

• Experience working with Dev Testing tools and patterns such as Garden, Flagger, Canary Deployments, Blue/Green Testing, A/B Testing.
• Experience setting up and working with Kubernetes Admission Control (Kyverno, OPA, etc).
• Experience working with workload scaling (HPA, VPA, Capacity Planning/Reservations, etc).

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Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.