Desired Skills and Experience

  • Assist in onboarding and launches for new clients
  • Deploy and configure cloud resources
  • Respond to customer inquiries about our product
  • Participate in on-call response to high priority tickets and incidents
  • Troubleshoot issues pertaining to the infrastructure running customer applications
  • Occasionally attend local or international conferences on behalf of Platform.sh
  • Extensive experience with web applications of various kinds. PHP, Node.js, and Python applications are especially important to our current business
  • Experience with IaaS solutions, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills: demoing products, explaining value and fielding technical, process and business-related questions
  • Ability to do the job in exquisite written and spoken English
  • Deep understanding of complete, modern hosting stacks
  • Experience with CDNs
  • Knowledge of DNS
  • Understanding of SSL certificates and encryption
  • Ability to use Git
  • Knowledge of Magento Ecommerce, Symfony, Drupal, eZ Platform, or Typo3
  • Relational database skills
  • Public speaking experience
  • Blogging or writing experience
  • Experience as a performing musician, competitive athlete, dancer, actor, scout, sailor, or magician
  • Ability to kick ass in Chess or Go
  • A passion for photography, painting, or home brewing beer