Senior Staff Engineer - Cloud Platform

Exelixis•Alameda, CA

8d•$169,500 - $239,500•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Staff Engineer – Cloud Platform will support the design and creation of cloud-based products and services to meet the technology needs of Exelixis. This position will help define and design our cloud platform, which includes cloud automation tools and standards, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling and AWS account provisioning automation. This position will also work with application support teams to re-define the interface between our cloud platform products and application installation and configuration processes.

Requirements

Master's degree in a relevant field and 7 years of experience; or Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and 9 years of related experience; or Associate degree and 11 years of experience; or Equivalent combination of education or years of experience
At least 7 years of experience in cloud infrastructure in a highly available and production environment.
Advanced level knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS), especially with services related to hosting: EC2, RDS, Systems Manager, IAM, etc.
Advanced level knowledge with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, especially Terraform.
Intermediate level knowledge with cloud and infrastructure automation.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in a SOX and FDA regulated environment is a plus.
Technical certification may be required

Responsibilities

Develop technical solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
Understands key business processes and business areas.
Guides the successful completion of major initiatives or programs and lead mid to large size complex projects.
Lead end-to-end development processes, from ideation through CI/CD, security scanning, and production monitoring.
Identify and implement improvements to overall processes and development procedures.
Develops and applies complex and often long-term strategies on specific projects.
Represents the department as the prime technical contact on contracts and projects.
Exhibits broad knowledge of state-of-the-art engineering principles and theories.
Translates overall direction and strategy and communicates across organizational levels and functions.
Works on strategic initiatives.
Interacts with senior external personnel on significant technical matters often requiring coordination between organizations.
Document infrastructure and work instructions for systems and applications, including architecture diagrams, runbooks and code-level commits / READMEs.
Lead and own incident response and root cause analysis for high-impact issues.
Ensure that completed work delivers long-term value, including the aspects of maintainability, performance and observability.
Make decisions regarding access, permissions, and security controls across systems.
Serve as the SME for assigned capabilities, providing technical leadership and guidance.
Mentor and coach junior engineers, fostering technical growth and best practices.