Senior Cloud Engineer, Uber Device Lab

About The Role

The Device Lab Team in Fleet Engineering at Uber builds the physical infrastructure to gate the release of all of our revenue driving applications like Uber Rider, Uber Driver, Uber Eats etc. Our mission is to Innovate & build the most diverse & reliable mobile device infrastructure in the industry to measure & improve our user experience.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be managing the hardware, software and systems running Uber's Private Cloud Device Lab Infrastructure. This will need you to collaborate with three major stakeholders - DCInfraOps, Device Lab Foundations Team and Internal End users like Test Automation Team, Quality Engineering Teams & Product Teams.

What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

---- What the Candidate Will Do ----

• Build, Maintain, Test and Scale tooling that runs the core device lab infrastructure services.
• Design and Execute system benchmarking testing for hardware Equipment like Dell Power Edge Servers, Cambrionix Hubs and Mobile Devices.
• Work with service providers in order to read telemetry emitted from the devices and systems to map to Observability tools like Grafana, Data dog etc.
• Use vendor APIs to build tracking and observability systems.
• Prepare Documentation from scratch for the systems that you will own, design, scale, build and support.
• Find Existing Technical Debt - Own and chase systems modernization efforts along with providing design and architecture ideas for the leadership to review and close.
• Own support in doing systems and software rollouts for internal tooling and external dependencies.
• Mentor Junior engineers and help them scale along with the systems you build.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in managing internal tooling for quality assurance and testing services for large scale Mobile Only" products or as a SRE or as a DevOps.
• 5+ years of experience and strong proficiency in scripting - Python, Bash, Shell in the context of managing test automation infrastructure.
• 5+ years of experience with infrastructure automation tools like Puppet, Ansible, or Chef to provide ongoing support for managing infrastructure-as-code resources.
• Experience with macos / Ubuntu / Linux OS configuration management at scale for critical infrastructure. This includes in-depth knowledge of deploying OS to bare metal from platforms like Dell iDRAC for production grade servers - at scale.
• Excellent ability to make data backed decisions to collaborate with multiple stakeholders, cross functional teams in ever changing landscapes.
• Ability to adapt to frequent deadlines and ever shifting priorities in a high pace environment.
• Ability to handle high pressure situations for finding RCA during outages with high blast radius and impact.
• Participate in 24*7 on call rotation and weekend deployments.
• Value people over everything else to maintain a high trust - high spirit team environment.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with setting up configuration management of large scale mobile device lab environments using CI/CD tools like Buildkite/Jenkins.
• Some experience with Device Farms and SaaS platforms like AWS Device Farm, Google OmniLab, BrowserStack, Kobiton, Headspin etc.
• Prior Experience in providing support for OS level issues for testing frameworks like Appium, Espresso, UI Automator for QA environments / automation testing / manual testing.
• Prior experience with configuration management tools like Munki, or MDM tools like JAMF, Kandji, Airwatch, MobileIron, Esper, etc.