Desired Skills and Experience

  • Deployment, administration, and troubleshooting of our distributed hosting infrastructure
  • Maintenance of configuration management and deployment systems to support the above
  • Management of our AWS environment, and the migration of clients into it.
  • Active collaboration with development and other teams, providing technical support and advice
  • Create and maintain technical procedures and documentation
  • Response, resolution, and root cause analysis of service issues
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with internal teams and external clients
  • Linux hosting experience (LAMP stack or similar)
  • Experience with Python scripting and Puppet based configuration management
  • Exposure to AWS concepts and best-practices
  • Exposure to database administration and scalling
  • Experience instilling values and practices consistent with a strong DevOps and ChatOps culture
  • Experience with at least some of: Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PHP, Ruby, Clojure, Terraform, Jenkins
  • Understanding of HTTP, SSL/TLS, and TCP/IP
  • Familarity with federated authentication via SAML or other protocols
  • Experience with information security: federal computing standards, auditing, and pen testing