The proliferation of machine log data has the potential to give organizations unprecedented real-time visibility into their infrastructure and operations. With this opportunity comes tremendous technical challenges around ingesting, managing, and understanding high-volume streams of heterogeneous data.

As a Principal IT Architect, you will actively contribute to, architect for, and lead IT in the design and development of new infrastructure automation projects. You will be instrumental in helping us solve, by architecture and implementation, complex hybrid infrastructure problems among IT’s robust inventory of networking systems, applications, and cloud infrastructure. You will work closely with a team of highly skilled individuals to deliver on high impact engagements at Sumo Logic, reporting directly to the Director of Infrastructure and Architecture in IT.

You are a strong infrastructure engineer and architect who is passionate about scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure solutions. You care about producing clean, elegant, maintainable, robust, well-tested code; you do this as a member of a team, helping the group come up with a better solution than you would as individuals and providing SME-level guidance and insight. Ideally, you have experience with performance, scalability, and reliability issues of 24x7 uptime systems and solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing complex and well-architected enterprise infrastructure solutions that support mid-to-large size organizations
• Work to improve existing IT-managed systems, solutions, and process through architectural reviews and design enhancement initiatives
• Experience in devops methodologies and practices as applied to infrastructure, cloud, application and network solutions
• Improve systems to provide strict compliance adherence, security guardrails, and cost-optimization
• Lead and contribute to the re-architecting of IT systems, solutions, and processes for more streamlined, scalable, and resilient implementations
• Design and manage the flow of data through corporate systems to ensure compliance, data integrity, and data security
• Deliver well-architected, end-to-end provisioning solutions to a growing enterprise organization across multiple environments and types of infrastructure
• Build strong partnerships and engage with other teams at Sumo Logic to create solutions that enable and benefit all parties and increased derived value

Requirements:

• 10+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership and delivery
• Experience developing scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure architectures and implementations
• Experience in observability and cost-optimization in application, server, and cloud (AWS preferred) settings
• Experience working with Fortinet and Cisco network devices on a system administration and configuration level
• Experience with DNS optimization and consolidation (CloudFlare, AWS Transit Gateway, and Route53 preferred) as well as VPN management (FortiClient, ZScaler, and Pritunl preferred)
• Hands-on infrastructure as code experience (Terraform preferred) as well as CI/CD pipelines (Scalr and GitHub Actions preferred)
• Experience with writing business application processes and integrations at an enterprise level (Python preferred, Bash and Shell acceptable)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience building robust and well-architected designs for enterprise scale systems with a focus on security and cost first architectures
• Experience and comfort with an on-call schedule for enterprise systems during daylight hours regional time

Desirable:

• Experience in the following specific technologies is a plus:
• Paylocity and ADP
• OKTA and JumpCloud
• Appypie and Zapier
• AirTable
• NetSuite, Expensify, Coupa, and Zuora
• Salesforce
• Azure and GCP a bonus
• You should have a passion for continuous learning and deep technological curiosity
• Agile development experience and a familiarity with Jira, sprints, and pointing

About Us

Sumo Logic, Inc. empowers the people who power modern, digital business. Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications through its Sumo Logic SaaS Analytics Log Platform, which helps practitioners and developers ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. Customers worldwide rely on Sumo Logic to get powerful real-time analytics and insights across observability and security solutions for their cloud-native applications. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.

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The expected annual base salary range for this position is $156,000 - $211,000. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but aren’t limited to) role level, skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, location, and experience. In addition to base pay, certain roles are eligible to participate in our bonus or commission plans, as well as our benefits offerings, and equity awards.