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Systems Engineer II

DigitalOcean
hybrid Bay Area Metro sysadmin 💰 $107k–134k
DigitalOcean’s Systems Engineer II role should appeal to ITSG readers with infrastructure, data center, hardware, firmware, or cloud operations experience who want to support a large cloud fleet. What you would work on: - Lead sustaining engineering efforts for DigitalOcean server hardware infrastructure. - Support server hardware, cabling, and networking hardware through the operational lifecycle. - Act as Tier 2 escalation for Datacenter Operations and Cloud Operations on hardware and firmware issues. - Build standards, practices, tooling, monitoring thresholds, failure-mode guidance, and runbooks for hardware operations. Good fit if: - You have hands-on experience operating cloud infrastructure at mid-tier scale or better. - You understand server hardware, firmware, infrastructure operations, troubleshooting techniques, Python, and Bash. - You can collaborate with DCOPS, CloudOps, qualification, firmware, fleet lifecycle, infrastructure services, and vendor support teams. Curated from DigitalOcean careers / Greenhouse for IT Support Group readers. This is an external listing; use the apply link for the source listing and latest details.
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