DevOps Engineer

Description

Amazee Labs is one of the leading Drupal agencies with a passion for producing engaging web design. We bring brands to the online world using Drupal, the world’s leading open source CMS. Our services include web consulting, web development, as well as web hosting and maintenance. We excel in web design and user experience, responsive design, second screen solutions, and high-performance websites. Amazee Labs has offices in Zurich, Switzerland; Austin, Texas; and Cape Town, South Africa; together with our sister company Amazee Metrics, a SEO, SEM and web analytics agency, we cover all web services.

Do you loathe repetitive tasks? Do you spend hours developing automation processes rather than doing the same thing three times? Then we may have the perfect job for you.

Amazee Labs is looking for a DevOps engineer to join our team. You will be essential to ensure stability and growth of our high performance-hosting environment AmazeeIO. You will help to establish DevOps practices throughout Amazee Labs projects, and you’ll work in an agile, open and international environment.

Our hosting environment is completely provisioned via Puppet, operates in multiple different clouds and locations all over the world, and currently serves over 66 million hits per month. We are constantly updating and improving the platform and need bright minds who are interested in helping us scale to build the world's best and fastest Drupal hosting environment to join our team.

Responsibilities:

Ensure stability of our hosting environment

Specify, implement, document, and rollout features/updates

Solve and support internal and client DevOps tasks

Manage site go-live procedures

Available for frequent off hours, “on call” duty

Requirements:

Degree in Computer Science (or similar)

3 years+ of DevOps/SysAdmin experience

Working knowledge of Linux, Nginx, Varnish, MariaDB/MySQL

Communicates effectively via cat gifs and emojis

Experience with Puppet

Experience with CI Systems like Jenkins

Experience with high availability and clustered servers

Basic knowledge of Mac OS X, Vagrant

You’ve heard of Drupal and/or PHP and it doesn’t scare you

You can work independently as well as part of a team

You are experienced with or are familiar using agile project methodologies

Ability to analyze problems and keep calm and focused when outages occur

You are comfortable reading, writing, and communicating in English

Bonus Points

Background in server security and system hardening

Experience with performance optimization and load testing

We offer:

Work in a team of creative professionals in a flat organization

Opportunity to build a first-class open-source based hosting environment

Budget for tech equipment every two years

Annual budget for education, sports and more

Attendance to a DrupalCon per year and other events

Work location:

Austin, TX (so you can work alongside our Austin team)

OR Anywhere, USA (remote)
If you're excited by the opportunity to join an international web service agency and think you might be a good fit, we'd love to hear from you. Please include your CV, your SSH Public Key and a cover letter telling us about your work experience and the things you enjoy.