Infrastructure Engineer

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers' success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who's who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you'll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let's build what's next - together

We're looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join Anaplan's Platform Infrastructure Team, where you will be responsible for managing the Public Cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure that underpins Anaplan's SaaS product offerings. The role encompasses a broad range of responsibilities, where you'll contribute to business growth with direct impact on platform reliability, developer experience, and cost efficiency.

Candidates will have previous experience working in high-performing DevOps teams supporting production environments and have a passion for technology and developing new skills. Anaplan operates across a broad technical stack, including all three major public cloud providers, an OpenStack private cloud and Kubernetes for orchestrating our micro-services application architecture. We use Terraform extensively for infrastructure as code, Grafana and OpenTelemetry for observability and a suite of automation tools common to DevOps teams.

This is a Hybrid working role at our York or Manchester location and will report directly to the Engineering Management team.

Your Impact

• Provision and maintain cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters and in-cluster services
• Design and implement new services and functionality to enhance developer experience, improve platform reliability and optimise costs
• Troubleshoot and lead the resolution of production impacting issues, typically when the issue is complex and requires in-depth investigation
• Identify opportunities for innovation or to eliminate toil through the adoption of new technologies, operational improvements and automation
• Provide technical leadership across infrastructure projects, coach junior engineers and help define best practices for architecture / ways of working
• Collaboration with business stakeholders across infrastructure teams, software engineering, infrastructure security and FinOps

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Certification (minimum associate level) in AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure
• Extensive experience of managing and supporting production infrastructure in the Public Cloud
• Operational experience with Kubernetes in a production environment
• Prior experience in unix/linux system administration
• Proficiency with IaC tooling, such as Terraform and working with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working within an Agile framework

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Observability tooling such as Grafana
• Prior experience of automation with Ansible
• Software development skills with Python or Go
• Experience with Private Cloud infrastructure on VMWare or OpenStack
• Previous experience working with Kubernetes Ingress controllers

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren't just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it's how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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