Operations Engineer - Software (Boulder, CO)
Posted by: "Cindy Fields" Cindy.Fields@rallydev.com
Date: Fri May 23, 2008 5:27 pm ((PDT))
OPERATIONS ENGINEER - Software
RALLY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (www.rallydev.com) located in Boulder,
Colorado is a dynamic, growing company that provides software-driven
enterprises with the knowledge, coaching and tooling needed to succeed
with agile development practices.
By joining our agile software development team, you will be a part of a
group building a collaborative platform for agile software teams of all
sizes. Enjoy all the benefits of working with the hottest technologies
in small, highly collaborative teams while we service users in 20+
countries and 50% of the largest software development firms in the world
from a hosted platform.
Responsibilities include:
* Administrating, monitoring, and maintaining Rally's on-demand
test and production systems
* Selecting, configuring, and maintaining state of the art
computer hardware that runs our on-demand systems
* Performing Rally production system upgrades and patches in a
clustered environment
* Assisting with production system security policies and audits
* Performing scalability tests on different hardware and
software configurations
* Assist in estimating product system capacities
* Designing and implementing a world-wide caching strategy
* Performance tuning the production hardware
* Maintaining, configuring, and testing our disaster recovery
site
* Ability to configure networking technologies including but not
limited to: Firewalls, Routers, Switches (Vlans, port bonding, fail-over
redundancy)
* On call availability to service a highly redundant and
reliable production system
Your skills should include:
* Minimum of 5 years of operations experience
* Operations experience with a J2EE architecture with RedHat or
Centos, JBoss, and Oracle 9i or 10g
* Experience with a Redhat cluster with iSCSI SANs is a plus
* Good technical problem solving skills
* Good communication skills
* Good Unix/Linux scripting skills
* A detailed and methodical (bullet-proof) nature when executing
product system installations, migrations, maintenance, and upgrades
At Rally, we value teamwork, an ability to meet commitments, and skill.
Our company is comprised of people who are passionate about the software
industry and the success that implementing Agile Development practices
can bring our clients.
Rally was awarded one of the best places to work in Colorado, the JOLT
Award for product excellence from Software Development Magazine and our
Series B funding. We fielded five Boulder Peak Triathlon relay teams and
continually give back 1% of our time to the non-profit community. Rally
has also set aside 1% of its equity, upon founding, as part of
Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado.
We are recognized nationally as the best product in our category (Jolt
Awards 2006, 2007 and 2008), locally as the most innovative product (IQ
Awards) and voted "Best Tech Company to Work for in Colorado" 2006 and
2007.
We are looking for those who share our passion and the desire to work
with the best and brightest. If it sounds like you might thrive in an
environment like this, please email your resume and cover letter to
jobs@rallydev.com
