Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Hybrid

Rithum™ is the world’s most trusted commerce network, accelerating how brands, suppliers, and retailers work together to deliver seamless e-commerce experiences. We provide an unmatched platform for brands and retailers, enabling them to accelerate growth, optimize operations across channels, scale product offerings and enhance margins.

Today, more than 40,000 companies trust Rithum to grow their business across hundreds of channels, representing over $50 billion in annual GMV. Using our commerce, marketing, and delivery solutions, our customers create optimized consumer shopping journeys from beginning to end.

Overview

The Cloud Engineering team in the Platform Engineering organization operates to build a highly available, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure.

As an Infrastructure Engineer on this team, you ensure that our cloud infrastructure platform is continuously improved, secure, and scaled to meet our clients' needs.  Your responsibilities include creating, monitoring, and automating cloud infrastructure and pipelines, collaborating with engineering teams, security and other platform teams to deliver highly reliable and secure offerings, and providing support for existing solutions and consulting on how to automate their workloads on cloud infrastructure. From code, to compile, to test, to deployment, you are responsible for the software lifecycle beyond just writing code.   In this role, you support and operate a physical datacenter located in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Responsibilities

• Support and operate physical datacenter infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking, and rack-and-stack activities.
• Manage and maintain VMware vSphere / ESXi environments, including host builds, upgrades, patching, and troubleshooting.
• Administer enterprise storage platforms such as Pure Storage and/or NetApp, including provisioning, snapshots, replication, and performance monitoring.
• Perform hardware lifecycle activities: installs, replacements, firmware upgrades, and decommissioning.
• Participate in planned maintenance, change control, and incident response for datacenter systems.
• Build infrastructure-as-code software and other tools providing a foundation for software teams to rapidly build large scale cloud systems.
• Establish a golden AMI pipeline and maintain a continuous patching schedule for all cloud resources.
• Operationalize the resiliency and disaster recovery processes for IaaS landscape.
• Automation of key operating and security processes in IaaS workloads.
• Infrastructure management via Configuration Management platform to ensure security and full stack automation for applications, drive the use of the platform and standards for all applications.
• Drive investigation and resolution of security incidents impacting cloud infrastructure.
• Work closely with security team to address vulnerabilities, evidence gathering and securing our infrastructure.
• Handle the security hardening efforts for major OS distributions to ensure overall compliance and a streamlined service for internal clients.
• Participate in the rotating on-call schedule. Ensure that user emergencies, platform alerts, and support requests are addressed.
• Identify and solve problems in cloud and hybrid environments and the ability to create and implement a new solution from scratch.
• Mentor and develop less experienced engineers.

Qualifications 

Minimum Qualifications  

• 3+ years’ hands-on experience working in a physical datacenter environment.
• Minimum of 2 days on-site in our data center, additional may be required based on business needs.
• Based in the Raleigh-Durham (RDU) area, North Carolina.
• Strong experience with VMware (vSphere / ESXi) in a production setting.
• Experience administering enterprise storage platforms, preferably Pure Storage and/or NetApp.
• Familiarity with server hardware (Dell, HPE, or similar), RAID, BIOS/firmware management.
• Experience following change management and operational best practices.
• Knowledge and experience of high availability and scalability.
• Experience with AWS foundations, including computer, networking, storage, and security.
• Experience architecting containerization solutions in cloud environments like ECS or EKS.
• A strong background in systems engineering, especially with tools like Docker and Kubernetes in Linux and containerized environments
• Expertise in implementing content delivery solutions at the edge.
• A thorough understanding of IAM roles, access management, DNS, load balancing, routing, firewalls, and monitoring tools for cloud and hybrid environments
• Experience deploying and supporting AWS network services, including VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, NACLs, Security Groups, TGW, GWLB, VPC Endpoints, Route53.
• Knowledge of AWS compute, data sources, security technologies, services including EC2, S3, IAM, ECS, EKS, Load Balancers, SCP, RAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, WAF.
• Experience architecting and securing regulated enterprise-class cloud services with compliance frameworks like SOC2, NIST, and ISO.
• Experience with logging and monitoring systems like Datadog and Cloudwatch.
• Familiarity and ability to diagnose large systems - how they work and can be operated on a large scale, edge cases, failure modes, behaviors.
• Proficient in writing code/scripting in languages like.
• Automation of infrastructure with CDK, Terraform, and Ansible, as well as containerization using EKS or ECS.
• Ability to diagnose complex distributed systems problems whether it be system, network or code.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications 

• You have a bachelor's degree, or higher, in Computer Science or related field.
• You are capable of operating in a highly collaborative/Agile environment with other team members as well as all software engineering.
• You have the ability to operate independently and self-prioritize work. You are a team player, and an exceptional communicator.
• You enjoy learning new technologies and help foster a collegial environment of continuous improvement and innovation.

Travel Required

Up to 10%

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

What it’s like to work at Rithum 

When you join Rithum, you can expect to work with smart risk-takers, courageous collaborators, and curious minds.

As part of the Rithum team, you are valued, supported, and included. Guided by a transparent culture and accessible, approachable leadership, we offer career opportunities aligned to your ambitions and talents. To ensure work and life balance works for you, we also offer an array of resources to support you and your families, including comprehensive benefits and wellness plans.

At Rithum you will:

• Partner with the leading brands and retailers.
• Connect with passionate professionals who will help support your goals.
• Participate in an inclusive, welcoming work atmosphere.
• Achieve work-life balance through remote-first working conditions, generous time off, and wellness days.
• Receive industry-competitive compensation and total rewards benefits.

We believe in transparency and fairness in our compensation practices.

For this position, the expected base pay range is: $100,000-$145,000 per year. 

This range represents the base pay for the role across all U.S. locations and is determined based on market data, internal equity, and experience. Final compensation may vary depending on geographic location, skills, and relevant experience.In addition to base pay, we offer a discretionary bonus for non-sales roles, a comprehensive benefits package, and, where applicable, sales incentives.

For this position, the expected discretionary bonus is 10% of the annual base salary.

Benefits 

• Medical, dental and vision benefits: Affordable health care plans and company HSA contributions, starting on Day 1
• A 6% 401(k) match
• Competitive time off package with 20 days of Paid Time Off, 9 Company-Paid holidays, 2 paid floating holidays, 7 paid sick days, 2 Wellness days, and 1 Paid Volunteer Day; at 3 years of service PTO increases to 22 days, and at 5 years it increases to 25 days
• 12 weeks primary caregiver leave & 4 weeks secondary caregiver leave
• Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance
• Pet insurance
• Legal assistance and identity theft insurance plans
• Life insurance 2x salary
• Access to the Calm app and the Employee Assistance Program
• $65/month Remote work stipend for internet
• Culture and team-building activities
• Tuition assistance
• Career development opportunities
• Charitable contribution match up to $250 per year

Rithum is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other protected characteristic. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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