System Administrator / DevOps Engineer

United States only  ‐ Remote
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Description

PhishMe is seeking experienced System Administrators/DevOps Engineer to architect, automate, provision, monitor, and maintain administrative and production Linux-based infrastructure.

The successful candidate must have professional work experience. This is a full-time position working for PhishMe, Inc. Outsourced or software development contractors will not be considered. We actively encourage diversity on our team and overall company.

Responsibilities
  • Work closely with Engineering and Product teams to identify and implement solutions that meet production, QA, development, and administrative needs in Linux-based environments
  • Interface with on-site system administrators
  • Architect and maintain multi-site, high-availability solutions
  • Own and suggest improvements to our deployment process and tools
  • Diagnose and resolve production system issues
  • Manage DNS zone files and configuration
  • Participate in rotating on-call schedule


  • Successful applicants must be:
  • A self-starter who is willing to take a task from gathering requirements to deployment and maintenance
  • Able to work effectively and be pragmatic as part of a remote team in a dynamic business environment
  • Comfortable working independently and able to escalate problems when necessary
  • Able to communicate effectively
  • Eager to learn; able to understand and apply new things relatively quickly
  • Willing to mentor and guide fellow team members kindly and constructively
  • Willing to work for eight solid hours per day where at least five overlap with 8am to 6pm EST
  • Available to work off-hours as necessary
  • Happy to travel occasionally for team meetings and events


  • Your experience should demonstrate that you:
  • Have experience with Ubuntu and Red Hat/CentOS in production environments
  • Are proficient with configuration management tools (Chef preferred)
  • Enjoy automating repetitive tasks with the language of your choice (Ruby preferred)
  • Have experience deploying Rails applications
  • Can effectively use git and understand common SCM workflows
  • Have experience using and supporting CI environments (Jenkins/Docker)
  • Are able to find solutions to technical puzzles with atypical constraints
  • Can manage and support production environments across various platforms: remote (VMs/physical), cloud (AWS), and on-site vendor products
  • Have managed production DNS zone files
  • Can implement and manage high-availabiity infrastructure solutions with automatic failover
  • Managed MySQL and PostgreSQL in production environments (replication is a big plus)
  • Enjoy sharing knowledge via documentation
  • Are knowledgeable of best practices, but open to introducing reasonable technical debt when necessary in order to meet business needs
  • Are able to write code that is intentional and readable rather than magically obscure
  • Stay on top of current DevOps and infrastructure news
  • Enjoy tinkering


  • It would really be outstanding if you:
  • Have attained a four-year degree in something (…anything)
  • Have customer support experience (retail, help desk, consulting, etc.)
  • Can comfortably use advanced git features such as rebase, rebase -i, merge --no-ff
  • Include a link to GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket profile


  • Compensation
  • Competitive salary + stock
  • Retirement plan with 3% company match
  • Health, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance
  • Telecommuting expense reimbursement
  • Choose your own Apple workstation
  • Peers that enjoy appropriate use of internet memes


  • Location
    Leesburg, Virginia
    Telecommute (United States only)
    Start date
    ASAP
    From
    PhishMe
    Published at
    18.05.2015
    Contact person:
    Freelancer Map
    Project ID:
    906134
    Contract type
    Freelance
    Workplace
    100 % remote
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