Desired Skills and Experience

  • 4-6 years experience building robust systems with AWS services
  • Deep understanding of fault tolerant cloud architectures, especially based on AWS services such as Elastic Beanstalk and ECS
  • Hands-on experience building out a CI pipeline for managing Docker containers across environments
  • Experience working with AWS database products, especially Redshift
  • Smarts, humility, strong communication skills, and the willingness to share ops knowledge with the application team
  • Familiarity with the Rails framework
  • Hands-on experience with database design and modeling
  • Willingness to thrive in a start-up organization: an ideal candidate is someone eager to learn and contribute outside of their comfort zone
  • Passion for theSkimm’s brand and products