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CLOUD SYSTEMS ENGINEER - 57785
Portland, OR$500
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$500
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We are EmployeeReferrals.com, one of the state's fastest growing software companies. We were founded by Eric Shelley and Kendall Frazier, and funded by Scott Frazier (The Investor behind DOMO, Ancestry.com, SkullCandy, Stance, and dozens of Utah's best known software companies), and are experiencing phenomenal growth.
Does managing and extending massive cloud platforms get your creative mind racing? Do you love building and debugging open-source, LAMP-stack architectures using cutting-edge technologies? Do you want to manage the largest sites on the planet? Do you want to join a global team of DevOps experts and learn from the best?
Summary:
Acquia is looking for expert, passionate DevOps systems engineers and systems administrators to help us grow our second-to-none Cloud hosting services. We manage over 8,000 AWS EC2 servers powering some of the world's most popular Drupal web sites. Our Site Factory service is running over 35,000 web sites!
Shifts available:
8:00 AM to 6:00 PM EST, located in Boston or Portland OR
All shifts are either Wednesday to Sunday or Saturday to Wednesday
Job Requirements:
- Constantly improve the performance and reliability of our hosting platforms
- Ensure customer success by provisioning their hosting environments following Acquia best practices
- Debug intriguing LAMP stack problems
- Work closely with customer support and engineering to deliver second-to-none SaaS and PaaS services
- Maintain and enhance cloud management and monitoring tools
- Participate in an on-call, operations support rotation
- Capacity planning
- Participate in on-call rotations, generally once every 2 months for one weekend day
Basic Qualifications:
- Passion for web site configuration, tuning and troubleshooting
- Deep, working knowledge of web, database, and OS server configuration (Linux, Apache, and MySQL preferred platforms)
- Holistic understanding of the Internet and hosting from the network layer up through the application layer.
- Experience in a 24x7 hosting environment
- Experience with monitoring tools, scripting, and internet security
- 1 to 2 years of related experience
- A good sense of humor
- US citizenship required
Extra Credit:
- Cloud hosting experience (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Eucalyptus, OpenStack, CloudStack)
- Monitoring tools (e.g., Nagios, Cacti, Ganglia, Splunk, Sensu, BMC, OpenView)
- Configuration management (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Subversion, Git)
- Scripting experience with PHP, Perl, Python, or Ruby
- Web security (e.g., IDS systems, DOS prevention)
- Scalable hosting cluster experience (e.g., nginx, Varnish, GlusterFS, etc.)
- Drupal experience