Equinix · 2 hours ago
Senior Manager, Product Software Arch and Eng
Redwood City, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$177K/yr - $265K/yr
10+ years expEquinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, focused on enabling innovations that enrich our work, life, and planet. The Senior Manager will build, lead, and scale a Site Reliability Engineering team dedicated to Cloud and Server operations, ensuring the global server infrastructure is reliable, scalable, secure, and efficient.
Cloud Data ServicesData CenterInformation TechnologyInfrastructureInternetSoftware
Responsibilities
Define and execute the SRE strategy for server operations, aligned with organizational objectives and SLAs
Build and mentor a high-performing team of SREs from the ground up, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement
Develop the team’s roadmap for automation, monitoring, reliability engineering, and operational maturity
Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure seamless delivery and operations
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including procurement, supply chain, IBX, and compliance to support operational excellence
Manage CAPEX/OPEX expenditures to optimize resource allocation and drive cost-efficiency across infrastructure initiatives
Oversee the health, performance, and capacity of server infrastructure, ensuring optimal uptime and efficiency
Lead implementation of monitoring, observability, and alerting systems to detect and resolve issues proactively
Establish incident response and postmortem practices, ensuring root cause analysis and prevention
Develop and enforce operational standards, playbooks, and change management processes
Drive automation for provisioning, configuration, patching, scaling, and recovery
Identify and implement tools that reduce toil, improve reliability, and increase operational speed
Oversee patching, vulnerability mitigation, and compliance for server hardware and OS layers
Ensure adherence to security and data protection requirements
Manage vendor relationships for hardware, monitoring tools, and infrastructure services
Develop and manage the SRE/server operations budget
Qualification
Required
10+ years in infrastructure, systems engineering, or SRE roles, with 3+ years in a leadership position
Strong technical background in server infrastructure (hardware, OS, virtualization, cloud/hybrid environments)
Expertise in automation tools, scripting languages, monitoring platforms, and incident management
Deep understanding of capacity planning, disaster recovery, and high-availability architectures
Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
Preferred
Familiarity with ITIL/ITSM processes
Experience with both on-premises and cloud infrastructure
Ansible/Puppet or Chef or similar
Terraform, Pulumi or similar
Linux Administration
BareMetal Hypervisors (Xen/KVM or similar)
K8S with focus on K8S Administration
Familiarity with DevOps teams
Familiarity with Service Teams concept
Benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Insurance: You may enroll in health, life, disability and voluntary plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members.
Retirement: You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future.
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge.
Company
Equinix
Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.27BKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.Crosslink Capital
2025-11-19Post Ipo Debt· $499.92M
2025-07-22Post Ipo Equity
2025-03-17Post Ipo Debt· $374.96M
Leadership Team
Adaire Fox-Martin
Chief Executive Officer & President
Keith Taylor
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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