Redpoint

Who we are.

Solo enables companies to Connect, Secure and Observe modern applications – APIs,

Microservices and Data – with the industry’s leading API and Service Mesh Management

Platform (“Gloo”). Solo innovations allow companies to stay on the leading edge of both

technology and business possibilities.

Solo is a VC-backed company, founded in 2017 by Idit Levine. In 2021, Solo was valued at $1B.

Solo’s customers are some of the largest in the world, spanning all geographies and industries.

Solo’s team has deep expertise in Cloud Computing, Linux, Containers, Kubernetes, Service

Mesh, APIs, Security, Microservice Applications, Application Modernization, GraphQL, and

eBPF.

What Corporate IT does.

The IT team is a small team supporting employees on all IT needs including onboarding, offboarding, system administration as well as managing our internal cloud infrastructure which is used for product development.

About the role.

The Manager, IT and Cloud Infrastructure is responsible for managing and executing the broad IT landscape across Solo to include cloud, IT support, and security. This individual leads the IT department as well as ensures our infrastructure is properly configured and maintained.

Job Description:

• Manage the IT department and daily duties as well as performing individual tasks
• Lead operations of our corporate cloud environments infrastructure and functionality: GCP, AWS and Azure
• Assess current company wide IT processes and policies; create and implement new ones as needed
• Own and manage internal IT support ticketing system
• Lead team to manage laptop settings and ongoing support
• Lead team to manage security of all company systems and tools
• Manage systems security and act as resource for Sales and Legal security inquiries as well as internal Solo security
• Run the yearly security compliance
• Lead processes for company wide systems/applications and tools procurement and integrations

Job Requirements:

• Has worked in IT/Cloud Infrastructure for at least 5 years
• Managed or worked as a team lead for IT and Cloud teams for at least 2 years
• 3-5+ years of enterprise expertise in Cloud/PaaS/SaaS Environments, with emphasis in Google Cloud
• Proficient, collaborative, and experienced in building reliable, scalable, enterprise IT systems

Desired Skills:

• Previous experience programming in one or more of: Python, Ruby, Java, Go, Rust, C/C++
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g.Gitlab, AWS CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, Azure DevOps)
• Google Professional Cloud developer and AWS certification highly desirable
• Experience managing day-to-day IT processes

What you’ll love about Solo.

At Solo, our culture is all about hiring great people, creating a fun and fast-paced work culture,

and letting our teams work with our customers to successfully solve their challenges.

Solo works collaboratively with our customers, partners and open source communities to deliver

technology innovation, technology solutions, architectural best-practices, and hands-on

education. Solo uses a unique engagement model with our customers that allows us to quickly

make them successful, and continue to work closely with them as their production environments

grow.