Desired Skills and Experience

  • On-going Sysadmin work on bare metal and AWS instances.
  • Proactive system/network monitoring.
  • Proactive system capacity planning.
  • Deployment and task automation utilizing salt or other methods.
  • Issue/Incidence response.
  • Code-level analysis of issues including root cause determination and/or potential code fix.
  • Peer-level customer support for low-level, highly-technical issue resolution.
  • Work with compliance team to implement controls and other security needs.
  • Continual improvement on the system as a whole.
  • Health Insurance
  • Generous PTO
  • Equity Offered
  • Yearly Retreats
  • Phone and Internet Stipends
  • 401k
  • Flexible work hours
  • Bachelor’s degree in CS, IS, IT or equivalent… nice to have but… we’ll focus on what you know right now, what you have accomplished, where you shine, and how your current and future goals mesh with ours.
  • 3-5 years of Linux administration and engineering experience including a deep understanding of the Linux networking stack at the kernel level.
  • 1-3 years Python development experience or an equal level of level of proficiency in another language. For candidates that have experience with languages other than Python, we will ask you to provide code/script/recipe examples pertinent to infrastructure support.
  • Knowledge of modern virtualization technologies (KVM knowledge is a plus).
  • Experience deploying a host virtualization platform. Specific experience with a cloud platform not required.
  • Experience hardening Linux hosts (with SELinux a plus)
  • Container/Cloud Management (Kubernetes, Mesos, Terraform, Docker Swarm,  etc)
  • Having led, or participated in, the implementation of at least one configuration management system (Chef, Puppet, Salt Stack, Ansible, etc.)
  • Experience with fully implemented automation workflows.
  • Hands-on networking experience and a strong foundational knowledge of networking models including VLAN’s, routing, bridging, etc.
  • Web Server experience (SAAS experience a huge plus)
  • Prior experience working in a start-up operation is strongly desired but not required.
  • We need people who know how to work independently and make things happen.
  • Good communication skills (written and verbal).
  • Strong application, operating system, kernel, and hardware debugging skills.
  • The ability to demonstrate a high degree of passion for your craft is a requirement.
  • Must be a “US Persons”