Desired Skills and Experience
- Solve complex problems and provide simple elegant solutions
- Advise product teams during design of cloud architecture and technology choices
- Develop and own policies around shared cloud resources (products/services/tooling)
- Act as an escalation point for vendor communications (cloud service provider reliability)
- Act as an escalation point for issues around shared cloud resources (internal support)
- Collaborate with your Operations teammates in Copenhagen, Dublin, Melbourne, and San Francisco
- Conduct new cloud product/service evaluations for internal publication to management for possible adoption
- Use a wide variety of technologies, wear lots of hats (actual hats optional)
- Work in an agile development environment and believe that pragmatism always triumphs over dogmatism
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong coding skills in at least one programming language, and a desire to pick up more (we work primarily in Ruby, Python and golang)
- Expertise in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive
- In-depth knowledge of at least one configuration management tool
- Extensive experience working with Unix/Linux systems and a deep knowledge of all layers of the networking stack
- Strong understanding of AWS (or another cloud provider) products and services
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