Desired Skills and Experience

  • Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, S3, RDS, ElastiCache) and Ubuntu Linux
  • Postgres, Redis, Memcached, ElasticSearch
  • Chef, ServerSpec, Terraform, NewRelic, DataDog, Sumo Logic and Test Kitchen
  • Design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure for ezCater
  • Actively manage the backlog for our infrastructure team and work closely with other SREs on the team to provide coaching and mentorship
  • Help us increase developer productivity and get to true continuous delivery
  • Develop operational and security standards and champion operational excellence and secure coding practices
  • Partner with engineering teams closely to educate and consult
  • Participate in solution design for new features, products, systems and tooling
  • Debug complex problems across the whole stack
  • Continually monitor application/system performance and costs, generate actionable insights and either implement or advocate for them
  • Participate in on-call rotations, along with every member of the engineering team
  • Ruthlessly eliminate repetitive manual tasks and recurring errors
  • Ensure we are always employing best-of-breed tooling for all our infrastructure and automation needs
  • Collaboratively plot course for the maturing and growth of ezCater’s infrastructure
  • Participate (and sometimes run point) in handling production incidents
  • Work closely with engineering teams to conduct root cause analysis for production incidents, and evolve infrastructure and tooling.
  • Thrive in a highly collaborative, no red-tape, rapid-growth environment
  • Love building tooling and infrastructure to help developers be more productive
  • Love eliminating repetitive manual tasks through automation
  • Have a healthy appreciation of what it means to work in production
  • Have solid Unix command line and systems chops
  • Have experience with substantial, distributed SaaS or eCommerce systems
  • Can point to a solid track record of success leading small-to-medium infrastructure teams
  • Have vision and well-informed opinions about how to build infrastructure for a high-growth, technology-driven company that’s headed towards the $1B mark