Desired Skills and Experience

  • Maintain existing DevOps process while making moves on constant improvement
  • Choosing best practices when it comes to process and security
  • Writing clear, concise documentation on implementations and process improvements
  • Finding creative ways to improve scalability and reliability
  • Creating systems to monitor architecture health (performance, scalability)
  • Taking ownership in the stack - solidifying the future of the system and really taking pride in what you’re creating
  • Proficiency in Linux/Unix-based operating systems
  • Proven experience utilizing various AWS services including EC2, RDS, Redshift, Lambda, ElasticCache, CodeDeploy and S3
  • Strong skillsets in database design, maintenance and scaling with MySQL, Postgres and Redis
  • Experience with deployment automation utilities (CircleCI, Chef, CodeDeploy, etc)
  • Knowledge and working understanding of system languages (C/C++, Python, Rust)
  • Interest or experience with scripting languages (PHP, JavaScript)
  • Firm understanding of web application uptime and scaling practices
  • Strong discipline in creating and maintaining documentation
  • Diligent about modern security practices and implementations, especially with data warehousing
  • Knowledge and understanding of compliancy requirements (HIPAA, Safe Harbor, PCI, SOC)
  • Participation in open-sourced projects in the respective field
  • Examples of having planned or implemented large scale web applications in use in the wild
  • Experience in startup environments 
  • Past experience in cannabis, i.e. cannabis technology, agriculture, infrastructure, retail, etc