Infrastructure Automation Engineer

About us:

HomeAway, based in Austin, Texas, is the world leader in vacation rentals with more than 2 million unique places to stay in 190 countries, and is a part of the Expedia, Inc. family of brands.

HomeAway offers an extensive selection of vacation rental homes that provide travelers with memorable experiences and benefits, especially more room to relax, for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations. The company also makes it easy for vacation rental owners and property managers to advertise their properties and manage bookings online. 

Challenges you can work on:

As an Infrastructure Automation Engineer, you will help build tools for automation, analytics collection, provisioning and management of Servers, Storage, Network infrastructure and virtualization. Create an API driven infrastructure to help keep up with the company's fast development pace. You will develop tools for both on premise and cloud based infrastructure across a wide variety of platforms including Linux, Windows, VMware, AWS/GCP/Azure.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Able to consume/develop RESTful API web services
• Highly Proficient in multiple modern object-oriented programming languages and an expert in one. (Ruby/Go/Python)
• Proficient in developing against various DB back-ends.
• Experience in Web development concepts and UI design.
• Experience with Linux and Windows scripting, including bash/perl/python and Powershell
• Experience with graphing and analytics tools (Graphite/Grafana)
• Experience with CI/CD deployment
• Proficient in large multi-location network core services (VLAN, DNS, IPv4, DHCP)
• Recent experience evaluating and solving business problems with code

Additional Beneficial Skills:

• Knowledge of multiple infrastructure technologies including storage, network, backups, virtualization
• Configuration management using Puppet/Ansible
• Understanding of container technologies such as Docker
• Contribute to best practices and programming standards using Github
• Ability to think multi-dimensionally about problems and your proposed solutions and how a single change can impact entire environments.
• Experience with lights out datacenter management
• Comfortable working in a complex symbiotic system of teams
• Desire to build solutions, frameworks for your solutions, and ecosystems for your frameworks
• Highly customer oriented, enjoys both teaching to, and learning from, customers.

Benefits:

• Competitive health and insurance benefits.
• Competitive salary.
• Annual target bonus or commission.
• Paid vacation and sick time.
• Vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit).
• Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• Free snacks and beverages.
• Frequent company update talks with our leadership team.
• Free listing on HomeAway.com
• Electronic, adjustable stand-up desk.
• Discounted Metro & Rail pass.

"We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status."