Do you enjoy bringing AGILE methodologies to operations? Are you passionate about treating infrastructure as code? You should come work for Northwoods!!!  But before talking about what we want you to do, we want you to know why you should do it at Northwoods! Never heard of Northwoods? We understand – we’re a small company.  But we have a mighty big mission!  Northwoods is a software solutions provider with a mission of revolutionizing the delivery of services to vulnerable populations!  We make solutions that improve the quality of the lives of case managers and social workers in the Human Services field.  Sound unusual?  Good because we definitely are not your usual place to work! We have an incredible culture and want incredible people to work here!  If you like an environment in which you are given trust and responsibility to do your best…then you are our kind of people!  We have a work hard, play hard mentality, but work hard definitely comes first.  Accountability is a hallmark of our culture!  And with that comes a high-degree of flexibility!  We have a “no-policy” PTO policy.  Basically how it works is if you need time off, you work it out with your team and manager.  No forms to fill out.  No overly burdensome HR process.  This policy goes back to our core values. We believe that you’re a professional and an adult and that you’ll live up to the HEART of Northwoods. Supporting our communities is important to us and not just in the solutions we provide!  Giving back is another part of what makes Northwoods, well Northwoods.  We allow all employees to use 20 hours of company paid time a year for volunteer service with any organization or for any cause they choose.  We have always encouraged and supported a strong culture of helping others.    If you want to find out more about what makes us tick, check us out at http://www.teamnorthwoods.com/ So what are we looking for? Northwoods is searching for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will work very closely with our development team to design and deploy secure web solutions to our customers.  This role will focus on designing, implementation, and configuration management of infrastructure and services that will host our web applications.

Desired Skills and Experience

Experience deploying and managing web and application servers, load-balancers, queues, and caches Experience with database technologies (PostgreSQL a plus, NoSQL document or graph oriented databases a big plus!) Experience with SSL installation and management Strong working knowledge of and experience troubleshooting and monitoring Windows and Linux operating systems Proficiency with utilities and tools to handle configuration management and automate operational functions (such as Puppet, Chef, etc.) and experience with cloud provider specific tooling (such as Cloudformation, ElasticBeanstalk) Experience with source control systems and driving infrastructure management via scriptable and repeatable (potentially automated) processes Experience building a monitoring or log analysis platform (such as ELK, Graylog, Graphite, etc) Scripting abilities (such as Shell, Python, Ruby, etc.) and experience using REST API’s A detail-oriented individual that also can keep the “bigger picture” of reliability and systems security in mind A desire  to work with a continuous deployment pipeline A team-player who is motivated to mentor our teams on best practices for secure application deployment and operations Certifications with Amazon AWS (Solution Architect or SysOps Admin) or Microsoft Azure is a plus We are looking for someone with at least 2-5 years of operations engineering or web operations experience.   So are you in?  If you want to join an exciting and growing organization, great team, and laid-back culture and are ready to make a difference, apply now!!