Senior Infrastructure Engineer

At Anaplan we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the whos who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola LinkedIn Adobe LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2400 global companies that rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas we behave like leaders regardless of title we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we have fun celebrating our wins.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led values-based and disciplined in execution youll be inspired connected developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and be your best self!

Were looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join Anaplans Persistence Infrastructure Team in York or Manchester where you will be responsible for managing some of the Kubernetes infrastructure that powers Anaplans SaaS product offerings. The role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities and youll have the opportunity to work with many different technologies. You will be contributing to the growth and expansion of the business and in parallel supporting the evolution of our technical stack through the implementation and adoption of new technologies. You will report to the leadership within the Persistence Infrastructure Team.

Your Impact

• Provisioning and maintaining Apache Pulsar Infrastructure on Kubernetes for Event Driven Architecture
• Developing and deploying software and tools for managing the lifecycle of persistence services such as Kubernetes operators configuration management tools shell scripting etc.
• Working with technologies on Kubernetes such as MySQL databases messaging systems (RabbitMQ Pulsar) and caches (Redis)
• Troubleshooting alerts incidents and platform performance issues
• Managing regular patching and upgrade cycles for Infrastructure and Software
• Managing security vulnerabilities and performing platform hardening activities
• Developing automation to remove manual tasks
• Developing and maintaining observability dashboards and alerting
• Collaborating with Software Engineers and Users across the business

Your Qualifications

• Operational experience with Apache Pulsar or Kafka
• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Experience in Linux system administration
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tooling
• Comfortable with scripting for automation

Preferred Skills

• Software development skills in any language (we use Go)
• Database administration - especially MySQL
• Previous experience with Percona RabbitMQ & Redis
• Knowledge of Open Telemetry
• Experience working in an agile framework or method i.e. Scrum Kanban

Our Commitment to Diversity Equity Inclusionand Belonging

Build your career in a place that thrives on diversity equity inclusion and belonging. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued regardless of gender identity or expression sexual orientation religion ethnicity age neurodiversity disability status citizenship or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process perform essential job functions and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer

It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals mainly through telephone calls emails and correspondence claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.

Anaplan does not:

• Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.
• Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible and then followed up via written communication.

All emails from Anaplan would come from an @ email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email letter or telephone communication purportedly from for or on behalf of Anaplan please send an email to before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.