ZEFR is growing!  We are hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to grow and scale our engineering team!   We are the leading technology company empowering brands to discover and target their most important influencers and topics in video. With more data than any other YouTube partner, ZEFR’s platform provides a lens into culture and the tools to turn insights into more impactful media for brands.    ZEFR remains at the forefront of innovation and quality for brands and publishers across the social media spectrum. We manage over 275 million videos online and tracks over 31 billion video views a month. Our teams use the latest open source tools to build applications and data solutions for fast, accurate, and high quality products that deliver results.   What you get to do:

  • Utilize production experience with Amazon Web Services
  • Implement automation using a combination of Mesos, Docker, Consul, AWS, Ansible/Puppet/SaltStack and Linux command line tools
  • Create an effective monitoring plan for products
  • Maintain the health of production environments proactively
  • Respond to system performance issues and outages
  • Effective and rapid at troubleshooting with root cause analysis
  • Participate in change management and deployment plan creation and review
  • Improve build and continuous integration (Jenkins), testing and deployment pipelines
  • Helping build a culture of DevOps
  • Participate in an oncall rotation

  • Write code   Your background would likely include:

  • Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
  • Kinesis and or Kafka
  • Python, Golang, bash scripting language
  • 5+ years building web-scale systems as a software or systems engineer
  • Must have strong Linux skills in most major environments
  • Experience with one of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack, etc.
  • Docker experience
  • Desire and ability to work independently and take ownership of complex tasks

  • Strong written and oral communication, organization, and documentation skills   Why we will love you: We’re looking for people who get a thrill innovating and making difference.

  • Interesting and unique challenges have you jumping out of your seat
  • You love to always learn and love to help with the team
  • You thrive in a start-up environment
  • You value high fives as an art form  

Desired Skills and Experience

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