Sr. Systems Engineer
Avalara
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
Job Duties
- Provide senior level engineering and administration of Microsoft Windows and Linux based server infrastructure
- Design, engineer, and maintain solutions based on project requirements deploy using modern infrastructure as code (IAC) methods
- Automate everything - using automation to solve problems
- Act as a subject matter expert and establish standards for business critical systems
- Discover opportunities and lead efforts to simplify solutions with the goal of delivering a world class experience for internal customers
- Demonstrate a proven expertise in planning and defining requirements for complex projects
- Evaluate new products/technologies to determine impact on existing system configurations and prepare/present information to decision makers
- Manage relationships with integrators and consultants
- Have a strong background in networking and cloud-based services
- Accustomed to maintaining documentation libraries, capturing business processes, creating storyboards and training materials
- Provide upper-level support for escalations and train/mentor colleagues
- Design and implement disaster recovery solutions supporting business continuity of business critical platforms
- Experienced with API and JSON development
- Have worked in an Agile environment within Jira
- Strong understanding of network, telephony, DNS, and ITIL concepts and topology
- High availability and disaster recovery
- Terraform, powershell, Ansible, python
- Git based version control and CI/CD
- Available to travel periodically
About the TeamThe Avalara Global Infrastructure Team builds and maintains all of Avalara's corporate infrastructure. We are instrumental in engineering technical solutions to meet business objectives. We enable the people and technology that keep collaboration and communication occurring throughout Avalara’s global operations.
About AvalaraAbout Avalara:
We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.Equal Opportunities:
Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.