gloo is a fully-funded startup in Boulder CO that has exited beta and launched our mobile apps (iOS and Android) and web clients. Now that we are attracting additional paying customers, we’re serious about commercializing our products. We are in search of someone to join our team who will help us harden, scale and deliver the underlying platform supporting our customers.
About the Role:
Your mission: to manage the AWS cloud infrastructure for a high traffic web environment that is fast, secure, reliable and available. Easy as pie, right? Our Platform as a Service (PaaS) is the key focus of the DevOps team. We are building key processes and systems that deliver a world class customer experience through superior operational quality, market leading uptimes and service excellence. We need your talents to help us scale and harden. So, if you’ve been aching to try that AWS move again – but this time with all the wisdom you gained from your first shot, then keep reading!
How you MIGHT spend your day
• Designing, building and supporting the QA & Production platform on AWS
• Supporting continuous integration services using Jenkins
• Providing 24x7 monitoring and alarming services using New Relic
• Managing and aggregating log files using Logstash or Splunk
• Creating and managing configuration of infrastructure using Chef
• Evaluating all the moving parts of our current integration and deployment practices and guiding/advocating a methodology that will further improve the reliability of our platform while reducing risk.
• Performing daily network troubleshooting, administration and database management activities – come on – everyone gets to help out, after all, we’re a small company
• Thinking through a tough challenge over a game of table tennis
A bit about you:
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline
• A minimum of 5 years of experience working in infrastructure, operations or configuration management with deep experience supporting web based (SaaS, mobile) products
• AWS Web Services Certification with points for HIPAA compliant application experience
• A creative, articulate and competent communicator – able to deliver your message clearly, concisely and confidently
• Experience working with Linux & an understanding of what it means to operate in a 24x7 production environment.
• Comfortable with cloud infrastructure monitoring tools such as Chef or Puppet.
• You have worked in an early-stage company so you know what it means to shift priorities and wear a bunch of hats
• Open Source tools are your preferred sandbox and you are comfortable with a good subset of the following: Splunk Logstash, Git Memchached, Redis, Varnish, ELB, Hapoxy, Stingray, Magento, Nginx, Rails, unicorn
• You are an organized professional capable of managing your time, tasks and activities without daily guidance
• You have a talent for making sense out of obscurity – you immediately begin executing concepts in your mind the moment someone has an idea
• Building strong and long-standing relationships is an important part of your being
• You can be patient and thrive even in the midst of intermittent ambiguity
Anti-Requirements
• A need for structure and repetition in every work day
• Using the words, “it can’t be done” in a sentence
• Believing, “that’s not my job”
Compensation
• Compensation commensurate with Experience
• Medical with HSA contribution
• The opportunity to work with a team of smart, committed and passionate engineers
• A startup vibe without the startup hours
Goldstone Partners is helping this experienced team of thought leaders find a Rock Star who wants to be part of something big! Please send your resume to me personally at success@goldstonepartners.com. Principals only please. Unfortunately we are unable to support relocation or sponsorships at this time.
