Desired Skills and Experience
- Manage our deployment and testing infrastructure, supporting the implementation of Continuous Integration.
- Refine development processes to make interactions between Software Engineers and Administrators constant, fluid, and productive.
- Participate in architectural decision-making in support of scalability.
- Automate repetitive tasks required to maintain a secure and up to date operational environment, eventually supporting the Engineering team with hands-on coding.
- Develop, improve, maintain, and document infrastructure management systems.
- Work with other teams to build, test and roll out systems.
- 2-3 years of experience as a Software Engineer, and 2-3 years of experience as a Systems Administrator.
- 1-2 years of experience working at large-scale applications.
- 2-3 years working in Amazon AWS environments, particularly VPC’s with an understanding of the AWS API.
- Intimate knowledge of Linux (Redhat/CentOS) and at least 2 years experience managing Linux in enterprise-class environments (more than 10 servers).
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Ansible/Puppet/Chef/others).
- Experience managing application build pipelines and continuous integration environments.
- Strong fundamentals in Python/Ruby and strong bash scripting skills.
- Comfortable working with a range of storage engines (MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis) and knowing when each is appropriate.
- Understanding of network and application security with deep understanding of all layers involved in web communications, including experience in network debugging.
- Must be a strong culture match including having a growth mindset and a deep commitment to world change and the Avaaz mission.
- Experience at large-scale web companies is a huge plus.
- Fluency in English is a requirement.
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