Desired Skills and Experience
- Be the driving force of improvement of our infrastructure and software through automation, monitoring, performance tuning, and tool creation.
- Troubleshoot production infrastructure and load related issues.
- Help improve our infrastructure and software through performance tuning and high availability solutions.
- Define and develop system reporting and infrastructure health monitoring.
- Develop and maintain configuration management solutions.
- Perform basic engineering, design, implementation, and maintenance tasks.
- Develop test automation frameworks in collaboration with other team members.
- Understand and use best practices for deployment processes and support.
- Create tools to enable the technical teams.
- Consult on systems architecture with a heavy focus on adopting AWS managed services.
- Document configuration procedures.
- Contribute directly to the planning and execution of the next iteration of core, customer-facing services.
- Develop and support innovative tooling to support internal and external stakeholders.
- Participate in an active on-call rotation.
- 5+ years as a system administrator or DBA.
- General cloud computing best practices, including networking and security.
- Strong communication skills to work with cross-functional teams of peers and departments within the company.
- Grasp of automation tools and experience working in a DevOps culture; sharing responsibilities with developers.
- Comfortable driving infrastructure as code with a focus on maintainability.
- Experience implementing managed cloud services in new and existing stacks.
- Experience running mission-critical Linux servers in virtualized environments.
- Experience orchestrating and supporting containerized deployments (Docker preferred).
- Understanding and familiarity of the fundamentals of Linux scripting language.
- Ability to build, monitor, and tune production servers and services.
- Experience with designing and building CI/CD ecosystems, Gitlab preferred.
- Experience with PHP and shell scripting (bash, etc.), and exposure to Python, Go, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Broad familiarity with AWS managed services, or expertise in a similar enterprise cloud provider.
- Experience with Couchbase, Kubernetes, mobile, and ephemeral infrastructure a plus.
- Medical and dental benefits
- Paid vacation and holidays
- Dynamic and dedicated team
- Data/Cell (internet) stipend
- Casual dress codeâÃÂÃÂ
- Resume (including months/years of employment for each position)
- Cover letter explaining why you’d like to work at When I Work, and not somewhere else.