DevOps

Jobcase is a highly profitable MIT-affiliated startup, and one of Boston’s fastest-growing technology companies. We’re building the world’s only social community dedicated to empowering America’s workforce. Today, nearly 40 million jobseekers already use 100+ job search sites powered by our proprietary technology. Our state-of-the-art Kendall Square facility is home to a mission-driven, merit-based culture focused on revolutionizing the way millions of working Americans connect to career opportunities. To deliver transformational value at scale, we’ve hired a top talent team of committed engineering, analytics, marketing and business professionals. In the last year, we grew from 15 to 60+ employees… and we’re only getting started!

Reporting to the Head of Technical Operations, the DevOps Engineer will have a unique opportunity to add immense value to our engineering process. You will automate our operations to make engineering at Jobcase faster, more nimble, and scalable at a critical growth juncture. The role is not narrowly defined, and the DevOps Engineer should expect to wear a lot of hats, thriving in a rapidly changing environment. You will rely on 3+ years’ prior experience installing, maintaining and troubleshooting complex Linux environments and applications. The right candidate will be a responsible, organized, team-oriented individual with strong communication skills and the ability to handle multiple concurrent projects while adapting quickly to rapidly changing priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Building / managing / planning expansion of a cloud based distributed Linux infrastructure

• Automated software installation and configuration management (e.g. Ansible, Chef)

• Understand and troubleshoot network and server hardware metrics: load, memory, disk I/O, network I/O, etc.

• Build/update/maintain 24/7 monitoring tools and/or expand current tool sets

• Support rapid-fire continuous deployment of software platform in a highly available distributed environment

• Improvise and innovate when challenges arise using creative outside the box solutions

• Diagnose performance and capacity issues with large scale data stores

Desired Skills and Experience:

We hire talent; not check boxes in job descriptions. We’re agile and improvisational. If you are data driven, think quantitatively, love to experiment and want the freedom to do so, we want to talk with you.

• Bachelor’s Degree from a 4 year college or university, preferably in a related technology discipline

• 3+ years RHEL v6.x+ and/or CentOS v6.x+ Linux systems administration

• Experience configuring and/or maintaining various parts of network infrastructure (load balancers, firewalls, VPN concentrators, etc).

• Experience with virtual or cloud computing environments (AWS, Rackspace, etc.)

• Internet applications and protocols HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, & SSL

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Experience with RDBMS (MySQL, Postgres, etc) and Key/Value stores

• Proficiency in at least 1 scripting language (Python, Bash, Ruby)

• Poise under pressure and an ability to influence change through data-driven decisions and rapport with colleagues