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Who We’re Looking For
Do the words “automation” and “open source” make your brows perk up? Are you a developer who gets a kick out of problem solving and system administration in a Linux environment? Have you heard of ChatOps? Want to help us take what we already have make it more awesome? Then this is your job!
You'll be in charge of maintaining production servers and the applications that run on them. You'll ensure that our MySQL databases are not only performant, but being backed up properly. You'll work with the development team to automate our deployment processes, as well as monitor performance and uptime. You’ll also be responsible for scaling our infrastructure as our relevant business continues to grow.
What You’ll Be Doing
Help improve our infrastructure and software through monitoring, performance tuning and high availability solutionsDefine and develop system reporting and infrastructure health monitoringCreate tools to build and deploy our apps that can be used by both full stack and mobile devsTroubleshoot production infrastructure and load issuesDevelop and maintain configuration management solutionsUnderstand and use best practices for deployment processes and supportConsult on overall production systems architectureDocument configuration proceduresMaintain security updates and patches
Experience and Skills Needed
5+ years in a System Admin or DBA role (Preferred experience in scaling a LEMP stack)Ability to build, monitor, and tune production servers and servicesStrong grasp of automation tools (preferably Chef), and experience working in a DevOps culture; sharing responsibilities with developersExperience in Travis or another CI toolExperience with version control and deployment processes, preferably GitHub. (We currently deploy 10 times/day)Experience running mission-critical Linux servers in virtualized environments
What’s In It For You
Medical and dental benefitsPaid vacation and holidaysFlexible work environmentDynamic and dedicated teamCasual dress code
*U.S. residents only. Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
Sound Like a Good Fit? We’d love to talk to you! How to apply: Along with your resume, please submit a cover letter explaining why you’d like to work at When I Work.