DevOps Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• You will build and maintain tools and programs to operate, deploy and monitor our distributed platform
• Assist the dev team in implementing best practices for software build and deployment.
• Manage and improve our Jenkins and Puppet infrastructure.
• Assist with environment setup, automation, and streamlining the standup and scaleout of infrastructure.
• Develop and improve our monitoring and alerting systems
• Assist with organization wide security considerations.
• Assist with capacity planning and load testing of our applications.
• Automate the deployment of our platform and all the systems it depends on.

Requirements

• 2 - 10 years of strong background in Linux Administration (preferably Debian based distributions such as Ubuntu)
• Strong experience with MySQL & any of the following NoSQL technologies Cassandra, Redis, Hadoop
• 2 - 3 years of strong experience with one of the following languages (Ruby and/or Python, Perl)
• Working knowledge of infrastructure as code. Experience with infrastructure as code open source software is a plus.
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS is required, Open Stack experience is a plus)
• Knowledge of best practices for running high scale and availability applications on the cloud
• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios or  xymon is a plus
• Experience with Continuous integration/delivery tools like Jenkins is a plus
• Experience with security best practices is a plus

Comp & Benefits

• Competitive comp based on experience level
• Healthcare HMO & PPO
• Stock options and 401k
• Flexible Spending and Transit Reimbursement Accounts