WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Managing, monitoring, extending our mission critical web application infrastructure in AWS and other cloud providers in an auto scaling, self-healing environment. Handling high volume is our priority.


• Being part of an on-call rotation. When alarms ring we respond immediately and effectively.


• Learning from alerts. After an event, we learn from it, continuously improving our infrastructure, monitoring, or applications to keep the same issue from ringing alarms again.


• Working with application developers and product “customers” to deploy and monitor new services repeatably, securely, at scale in cloud services.


• Building visualizations of our data to understand the performance of our systems and recommend improvements to remove bottlenecks and points of failure.


• Discovering, testing, and deploying upgrades to or replacement of components of our infrastructure, from simple OS packages, to database version upgrades, to cloud services, to wholesale architecture changes.


• Anticipating and proactively addressing security concerns from both process and technology standpoints.

• Our stack: Kubernetes, Docker, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Redis


• Hosting: AWS and Rackspace clouds.


• Configuration Management in Terraform


• Monitoring: DataDog, Statsd

• Very experienced with Linux system administration.


• Substantial experience GIT


• Experience in a programming language like Ruby, Python, or Golang.  


• Experience developing and monitoring mission critical web applications.


• Knowledge of and a passion for repeatable configuration management using tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Rundeck.


• Desired:  experience with Kubernetes (we’re on EKS).


• Bonus: experience configuring and monitoring CDNs (we use Fastly).


• Bonus: experience tuning and administering PostgreSQL databases (RDS and self-hosted).


• Location : Remote (US only)