DevOps Engineer
Los Angeles
1. Have 3+ years of experience building dynamic web applications using frameworks like Padrino, Rails or some other comparable framework. (If you’re not currently using Ruby or Padrino, but are familiar with something comparable, give us a call. Smart people are smart people, regardless of the platform.)
2. Have 3+ years of managing and configuring web servers and other requisite software (Memcache, Varnish, etc.). Experience using configuration management system a big plus.
3. Be very comfortable using Linux and shell scripting to perform basic administrative functions.
4. Have experience utilizing monitoring software (e.g. Nagios, Munin, monit).
5. Be comfortable administrating machines on cloud computing platforms like Amazon EC2 and Heroku and other virtualization software.
6. Be comfortable working with databases, schema design and have a practical understanding of SQL. We’re not looking for experts, but you should recognize obviously bad schema design when you see it.
7. Understand how the web ‘works’. Basic things like standard browser features, browser privacy policies, client/server interaction and client-side scripting should be very familiar to you.
8. Be a strong communicator. We are a small team with big team challenges. Working in a transparent and coordinated way is critical to our success.
Be passionate and stay up-to-date on the latest and greatest web technologies and techniques (HTML5, NoSQL, different web servers, etc.). Contributing to open sourceRequirements
1. Have 3+ years of experience building dynamic web applications using frameworks like Padrino, Rails or some other comparable framework. (If you’re not currently using Ruby or Padrino, but are familiar with something comparable, give us a call. Smart people are smart people, regardless of the platform.)
2. Have 3+ years of managing and configuring web servers and other requisite software (Memcache, Varnish, etc.). Experience using configuration management system a big plus.
3. Be very comfortable using Linux and shell scripting to perform basic administrative functions.
4. Have experience utilizing monitoring software (e.g. Nagios, Munin, monit).
5. Be comfortable administrating machines on cloud computing platforms like Amazon EC2 and Heroku and other virtualization software.
6. Be comfortable working with databases, schema design and have a practical understanding of SQL. We’re not looking for experts, but you should recognize obviously bad schema design when you see it.
7. Understand how the web ‘works’. Basic things like standard browser features, browser privacy policies, client/server interaction and client-side scripting should be very familiar to you.
8. Be a strong communicator. We are a small team with big team challenges. Working in a transparent and coordinated way is critical to our success.
Be passionate and stay up-to-date on the latest and greatest web technologies and techniques (HTML5, NoSQL, different web servers, etc.). Contributing to open source