Careers in Operations Engineer/DevOps

Palo Alto-based Cloud start-up – Operations Engineer

Published on June 7, 2011 in Operations Engineer/DevOps. Closed

I am working with Palo Alto-based start-up that is beginning to dominate the content management space as it relates to the Cloud. They are 170 people, making money and looking at an IPO in the near term. On top of that it is a really fun place to work – lots of smiling people which may sound cheesy but it’s actually pretty cool.

As a Sr. Operations Engineer, you*ll join a skilled team working on an amazing product. We*re building the platform to handle our rapid user base, storage, and sales growth; we*re focused on making it as reliable, automated, and scalable as possible. You*ll work on taking product ideas and operationalizing them * from evaluating various designs to prototyping, instrumenting, and rolling out in production. You*ll be responsible for building high reliability internal infrastructure that scales to thousands of nodes.

Your gravitational pull should be towards Keep-It-Simple, high quality engineering, and robust systems. (Okay, there will be some overt hacking as well.) And, you should be curious: our Operations team is constantly evaluating new technology and how to make our existing technology run better, faster, and stronger (Daft Punk FTW).

Qualifications:

  • Expert level understanding of the LAMP stack; tuning/troubleshooting wizard
  • TCP/IP and HTTP familiarity; dreams involving window scaling optimizations
  • Adept with scripting language of choice
  • Team player
  • 4+ years experience
  • Random hobbies/skills that we find fun/interesting

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Stealth start-up – Cloud Analytics Platform – DevOps Engineer – Redwood City

Published on March 21, 2011 in Operations Engineer/DevOps. Closed
I am working with a very well-funded stealth-mode start-up in Redwood Shores creating a very disruptive platform on which it will deliver next generation business intelligence software.  Some very high profile VC’s have taken a keen interest in what they are doing.  The founders successfully sold their last company for $350 million.
The platform, and subsequent applications, will run in their Cloud.
We are looking for an Operations Engineer.  You will be the first person on the team and have the opportunity to drive much of the initial architecture.  With that said, thus far they are using CentOS, Java/Hadoop and virtualization.  This will be a high production environment and will quickly grow past the initial 60-servers.
The right person is hungry and may see themself leading a team some day.  In addition, the right person can definitely code in order to make the machines sing in harmony, but which language is not so important – it could be Java, Shell, Python, bash etc.  This will be a 24/7 environment.

DevOps Engineer Skillset Requirements

  • First-hand experience in having the responsibility of “carrying a pager” for a mission-critical distributed platform either at a startup or a large infrastructure provider, knowing what happens when infrastructure and tools fail, and having the problem solving skills to resolve them.2+ years experience working with existing cloud infrastructure providers such as Amazon Web Services, RackSpace, GoGrid, or Terremark and an understanding of their pros and cons.
  • Hands-on coding expertise in authoring automated monitoring, administration, deployment, and provisioning tools with shell scripting.
  • Proven expertise with one of the following cloud management providers: RightScale, enStratus, VMWare, or Chef/Puppet/Capistrano
  • Deep Expertise in Networking (network topology, subnet management, and cache/firewall server configuration) and Security (encryption in transport and persistence, rate limiting, white/black listing) is a strong plus.

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