Senior DevOps Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Gloo, LLC, headquartered in downtown Boulder, Colorado is a technology company focused on growth engagement. We build web/mobile platforms and associated tools for organizations who are passionate about investing in other people’s growth. We provide users with the ability to know and serve others better, drive deep engagement, increase reach and facilitate new revenue channels.  We are growing, learning and looking for talented professionals who are driven to have a positive impact on humanity.  Interested?

Job Description

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 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. And for those of you who are thinking about hopping onto the leadership track – this is an incredible growth opportunity with strong leaders to help you get there!


What you’ll be doing:
• Managing software builds and deployments across multiple environments within the AWS infrastructure
• Mentoring, coaching and cajoling junior team members and development colleagues toward best practices and sound methodologies
• Maintaining software infrastructure components, including application and database servers
• Implementing and maintaining production system monitors
• Managing security and access to production and testing environments
• Supporting continuous integration services using Jenkins
• Working with your product and development teams to spec new infrastructure requirements
• Managing and aggregating log files using Logstash or Splunk
• Creating and managing configuration of infrastructure using Chef
• Continuously seeking new methods for improving the operation while mitigating risk
• Applying OS patches and upgrades as appropriate
• Thinking through a tough challenge over a game of table tennis

Qualifications

What you’ll bring with you:
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline
• A minimum of 8 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 and an understanding of what it means to operate in a 24/7 production environment.
• Comfortable with cloud infrastructure monitoring tools such as Chef or Bash.
• You have worked in an emerging growth 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: RabbitMQ, Logstash, Git Memchached, Redis/Sentinel, Stingray, Magento, Nagios, Rails, Graphite, Git, Kafka, Nginx, DropWizare, MongoDB, NoSQL, Kibana, Jenkins, HAProxy
• 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

Additional Information

And what you’ll get:
• Salary and bonus based on the great work you do
• A super cool benefit package
• The opportunity to work with a team of smart, committed and passionate professionals

Goldstone Partners is helping this experienced team of thought leaders find some incredible folks who want to be part of something big! Please send your resume to us directly at success'at'goldstonepartners.com. Principals only please. Unfortunately we are unable to support relocation or sponsorships at this time.