Desired Skills and Experience

  • Work alongside a global talented team of colleagues and quintessentially creative individuals who are building learning applications and services
  • Develop and design tools to instrument and alert on problems, on-going releases and projects
  • Own availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency for the team’s services
  • Deploy and maintain automated scanning of various NetDimensions’ properties, including validating findings and driving remediation
  • 1st point of contact for in-house development and hosting team to accommodate requests
  • Support of web and mobile applications maintaining uptime while fielding escalations as part of on-call rotation
  • Responsible for the DevOps architecture, including build, deployment, and support of a continuous Integration and continuous deployment strategy for the software engineering and QA teams
  • Ability to deftly and clearly communicate with the technology teams and to non-technical members of the organization
  • Design strategies for security monitoring of new and existing systems
  • Ability to deftly and clearly communicate with the technology team and to non-technical members of the organization
  • Mentor junior colleagues and encourage their growth and knowledge of infrastructure
  • Demonstrable extensive experience managing Linux application servers (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS)
  • Demonstrable experience with fluid virtual infrastructures (VMware, Docker, AWS, OpenStack)
  • Demonstrable experience with Apache (Tomcat) / NGINx
  • Demonstrable experience with networking, storage and sysadmin best practices
  • Demonstrable experience with database servers, preferably Oracle, MySQL or PostgreSQL
  • Demonstrable experience with enterprise search platforms, like Solr
  • Demonstrable experience with with SVN/GIT alongside Agile development processes
  • Strong understanding of performance metrics from stress/load tests
  • Demonstrable experience of various cache configurations, including Redislab  
  • Demonstrated experience securing high-traffic properties (cloud and on-prem)
  • Demonstrable experience with build tools, preferably like Gradle or Maven
  • Demonstrable experience with Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
  • Demonstrable experience with managing cloud-based continuous integration servers (for example Jenkins or Bamboo)
  • Demonstrable experience with Jira <->ZenDesk integration and Confluence
  • Strong knowledge in scripting and programming languages (Python, Ruby, PorwerShell, Golang)
  • Track record of delivering hardened, fault-tolerant, high-availability designs
  • Lazy enough to automate tasks, smart enough to document them well (including Server Architecture diagrams)
  • Strong sense of ownership and urgency
  • Creative, strategic and critical thinker with a high attention to detail
  • Ability to juggle multiple tasks, set priorities and meet deadlines
  • Cool-headed in a crisis and instill confidence in those around you while solving problems
  • Bachelor’s degree required, security certifications not required so long as you are qualified.

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