Principal Engineer - Infrastructure Capacity and Optimization
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The Principal Engineer owns and leads the planning, analysis, and optimization of our Hybrid cloud environment, delivering SaaS products designed for stability and growth. This individual collaborates with the various Engineering teams for understanding and defining the needs and seamless implementation of projects and architectural enhancements. The role involves strategic planning, technical leadership, providing advice and inputs to software developers and engineering departments, to drive performance improvements, reduce waste, and ensure a seamless user experience. This role is critical in ensuring our compute, storage, and network resources are scalable, efficient, and cost-effective to meet the demands of a growing, dynamic environment.
As Paylocity’s Product and Technology team member, you are considered a resource for all technology areas in a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive workplace culture. Our Infrastructure team is dedicated to exploring and discovering the best tools and solutions for various challenges and enhancements, leveraging commercial, open-source, and purpose-built solutions. Our team’s unique structure allows each member the freedom to perform tasks most efficiently in a remote-first environment. As we manage various systems with applications hosted in hybrid cloud infrastructure, one will rarely be locked into working on a single task. Additionally, team members are encouraged to gain experience and technical knowledge by pursuing certifications and experimenting with new technology toward their career aspirations.
Are you the teammate we are looking for?
Who you are:
Infrastructure Engineering is the function that applies principles and techniques of engineering, mathematics, and computer/data science to the design, development, and operations of a modern hybrid cloud infrastructure for application connectivity. The Product and technology engineering family at Paylocity comprises Software Development, Database, SRE/Observability, DevOps, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Storage, Servers, and Networks.
- Enthusiastic about developing the best-in-class infrastructure to provide the ultimate customer experience.
- An advocate for a data-centric, automation-first approach to continuous improvement of our infrastructure monitoring, capacity forecasting, and cost tracking.
- Demonstrated ability to stay current by learning and applying new technologies to solve practical challenges.
- Expert in analyzing current workflows, processes, and technology practices to implement and operate infrastructure and drive improvements.
- Willingness to share your ideas in a collaborative environment with an open mind to receive constructive feedback and unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team members.
- Demonstrated ability to coach team members around best practices for delivering highly available and secure solutions for a Hybrid environment.
- Able to work independently on initiatives, complete tasks, and execute projects through others with high quality at the velocity needed by the business.
- Excited by the prospect of identifying and implementing cutting-edge technology to scale the infrastructure for a hybrid cloud environment.
What will you do:
- Earn the trust and confidence of the whole team and P&T organization.
- Sought out as a technical expert in interactions between infrastructure and applications by the team and across the organization.
- Develop and execute robust capacity planning methodologies for compute, storage, and network infrastructure in hybrid cloud environments.
- Forecast resource demands based on workload trends, business growth, and usage patterns while Identifying optimization strategies to balance cost, performance, and scalability.
- Generate regular reports on infrastructure utilization, capacity forecasts, and optimization outcomes, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and industry standards.
- Redefine the standards for capacity planning and be accountable for ensuring sufficient resources by Influencing architectural decisions ensuring scalable and efficient designs.
- Lead to conceptualize, design, and implement efficient tooling/automation for resource monitoring, system performance metrics, utilization patterns, and identify bottlenecks.
- Routinely lead a cross functional team forward through design discussions, resiliency analysis, incidents, and implementation details, ultimately delivering value to our clients.
- Evaluate and recommend infrastructure technologies, tooling, hardware, and software solutions to ensure high availability and resilience through proactive resource allocation strategies.
- Break down the complexity of projects, services, and processes while communicating with other engineering teams, security, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Advocate for best practices and effectively deliver projects with significant stakeholders across the organization and external partners while managing dependencies and risks.
- Collaborate with leadership to align infrastructure capacity plans with business objectives.
- Available for 24x7 on-call rotation for after-hour support for incidents, drills, and project execution.
What you bring:
- Bachelor's degree in computer engineering with an aptitude for mathematical modeling and analysis or similar with 10+ years of experience.
- Industry certifications from vendors such as Cisco focused on Data Center is a plus.
- Exhibit a technical understanding of application flows, interactions with infrastructure, and excellent judgment regarding decisions across many aspects of a Hybrid cloud environment.
- Proven expertise in performance tuning for large-scale distributed systems
- Designed monitoring and capacity management solutions in a SaaS application delivery environment.
- Strong understanding of the on-prem data center including networking, storage, and compute resource management.
- Proficiency in utilizing SRE principles for implementing infrastructure capacity and performance monitoring solutions using tools like Ansible, Datadog, Logic Monitor, or similar
- Prior experience in planning and executing scaling projects using load balancers from F5 Networks, Network devices/Firewalls from Cisco.
- Prior experience in planning and executing scaling projects in a virtualized computing environment Cisco UCS/HPE/Cisco MDS/Pure with VMware or similar products.
- Knowledge of container orchestration (Kubernetes) and microservices architecture.
- Curiosity to learn with a passion for advancing the technology landscape while applying towards the stability of the network infrastructure.
- Able to work effectively in a team environment in an agile fashion.
- Adaptable to change and pivot based on situational challenges.
- Practical and creative in problem-solving.
Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.
We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.
We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact accessibility@paylocity.com.
This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $136k - $253k/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual bonus and restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers.
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