In this role, you can expect to:

Work with other engineering teams to:

Scale existing applications to handle increased #webscale

Bring new platforms online, such as hadoop clusters, cassandra nodes, or redshift servers

Improve shared libraries and practices around authentication, logging, alerting, and monitoring

Work primarily within our Tech Ops team to:

Enhance infrastructure security, including VPC hardening and Security Group modifications using Ansible

Manage network configurations within our AWS VPC and VPN

Strengthen our DDoS and intrusion prevention systems via WAF injection, ELB configuration, and auto-scaling

Lock down access to our systems by implementing Google Apps integration, ldap, or similar

Own the budget and auditing of our cloud configuration, including using a tool like Scout to audit for changes to our infrastructure

Site Reliability Engineers are primarily responsible for Linux system administration, platform engineering, and infrastructure management.

Questions like:

What CIDR should I pick for my VPC in us-west? How many distinct subnets should it have?

You have 4 cloud instances that need to have high-read, low-write access to the same filesystem. How should you achieve that while ensuring HA?

We want to release two applications on different stacks (F & R) in lock-step because they communicate over fast-evolving, unversioned REST APIs. You must ensure that an app of one vintage never talks to an app of another vintage, i.e. Fv0 never talks to Rv1, only Rv0. How would you provision and configure such applications?

You’ll be effective if you:

Treat data integrity and confidentiality as a first-class citizen in everything you build

Have ample experience with cloud providers (e.g. AWS or DigitalOcean)

Are well-versed in at least one modern web application architecture stack

Live and breath continuous delivery automation

Are comfortable with a variety of scripting languages like Bash, Ruby, Python

Have experience with deployment automation tools like Ansible or Puppet

Have experience with application load balancing solutions for scaling and High Availability

Thrive in a startup environment

About the right team member:

You add scripts to your toolbox on a daily basis because you never want to type the same thing twice. Your dotfiles repo on GitHub has been forked dozens of times. You believe GUIs are too slow. You built a website on a stack you’d never used before one weekend because someone on Twitter said something that kinda sounded fun. You have strong opinions about what security groups should be named.

Tools in your belt:

Everything but the kitchen sink. But if you want a list… Bash, Amazon Web Services, CentOS, Ansible, Puppet, Java, Gradle, Ruby, Python, Node, Nginx, Tomcat, Puma, Passenger, MySQL, Postgresql

If you join this team, you’re going to…

Measure all the things

Secure all the things

Automate all the things

Join our Client’s Team:

Our client is a technology firm in the financial advising space. One of the leading roboadvisers on the market today, our client makes it easy for everyone to get good quality financial advising.

Desired Skills and Experience

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