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What’s Cool About This Job (Australia Based)
At WP Engine, our customer focus has driven significant growth, creating opportunities to tackle complex problems at scale and deliver new products that make our platform the go-to choice for online agility. As a Hybrid Technical Production Engineer & Incident Manager, you will play a crucial role in elevating our platform's scale and functionality while ensuring robust incident management.We believe in hiring the best and fostering an environment where excellence thrives. If you are intelligent, adept at problem-solving and communication, a diligent worker, and an excellent team player, you may be the engineer and incident manager we are looking for.
The Day to Day
Technical Engineering:
Manage all aspects of our production infrastructure, including monitoring, alerting, investigating, and resolving infrastructure challenges.
Execute production changes, manage deployments, and oversee patching pipelines.
Contribute to platform tools and automations, engage in infrastructure lifecycle management, cost control efforts, and support numerous systems and services.
Research and evaluate production alert trends, develop recommendations, and implement improvements to enhance system performance and reliability.
Participate in a rotating on-call schedule, providing support and rapid response to production issues.
Work closely with Product Management to ensure frequent, incremental changes align with customer success goals.
Foster a culture of learning and professional development among engineers through mentoring, leading workshops, or developing educational materials.
Actively participate in platform-related initiatives, providing recommendations and advocating for changes that promote platform health, stability, and maintainability.
Incident Management:
Serve as the single point of contact for global teams on complex escalated issues.
Facilitate communication and escalation across WP Engine teams and possibly the entire organization, driving incidents to complete resolution.
Ensure appropriate leadership communication during critical issues.
Document incidents for root cause analysis and impact analysis post-resolution.
Track and analyze trends of escalated issues, highlighting and accounting for areas of risk.
Onboard new engineering teams and products to the Incident Management process as the company continues to grow.
Advise on iterative improvements to the Incident Management process over time.
Define and document ITSM processes ensuring alignment with ITIL4 standards and best practices.
Conduct maturity assessments and gap analysis to identify areas for improvement in existing ITSM processes.
Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of ITSM processes.
Engage regularly with stakeholders to develop, manage, and refine the ITSM processes.
Your Expertise and Passion
History of continuous learning and ability to stay engaged in technology trends.
Natural problem-solving abilities, an inquisitive personality, and an eagerness to tackle customer challenges.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Track record of supporting resilient, scalable, enterprise-grade solutions while fostering an agile and SRE mindset.
Ability to multitask effectively, especially during high-pressure situations.
Developed written and verbal communication skills for both technical and executive leadership audiences.
Ability to command a situation and refocus conversations when necessary, including those involving senior leaders.
Breadth of technical knowledge, especially in cloud infrastructure and LAMP stack technologies.
Proven track record in managing escalations with defined operational procedures.
Desired Skills
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or a related field), or equivalent industry experience.
Working knowledge of the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP); experience with NGINX, DNS, Git, and Bash Scripting.
Proficiency in Python; familiarity with WordPress, Jenkins/CloudBuild, Ansible, and Cloud Computing platforms.
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Strong troubleshooting skills, a sense of responsibility and ownership, and a proven ability to maintain high productivity levels.
Bonus Points For Experience With
Stackstorm
YAML
TICK Stack + Grafana
BigQuery or equivalent data warehouse
Looker
Cloudflare
Join us at WP Engine to be part of a team that values innovation, excellence, and continuous improvement. If you have the skills and passion, we’d love to hear from you!
Australia Perks and Benefits
Company Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)
Superannuation Program
Employee Assistance Program
Supplemental Maternity & Paternity Pay
Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off)
One-time $745 AUS Home Office Stipend
Company Wellness Days
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At WP Engine, we strive to have the broadest possible view of diversity, going beyond visible differences to include the background, experiences, skills, and perspectives that make each person unique. WP Engine is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
