System Operations / Dev Ops Engineer
at Bright.com in San Francisco, CA
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Jun 02, 2013
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Overview
Do you consider yourself a “Jack of all trades,” when it comes to technology – no matter how big or small the project is? Working at Bright could be just what you are looking for! This is an opportunity for you to make a difference in the lives of millions of job seekers – by helping us ensure that our systems remain state of the art and adapt for high scalability as we continue to grow.
Bright harnesses the power of Big Data to help eliminate the noise in the hiring process - efficiently connecting job seekers to their best opportunities, and employers to their top prospects.
We aren’t just innovating the online job search — we build technology that moves the entire labor market, faster.
The ideal person we are looking for has been able to work successfully within high-availability environments and doesn’t mind deploying new servers and databases, troubleshooting a variety of unforeseen issues, and implementing new system architectures to optimize performance - all in the same day.
Bright harnesses the power of Big Data to help eliminate the noise in the hiring process - efficiently connecting job seekers to their best opportunities, and employers to their top prospects.
We aren’t just innovating the online job search — we build technology that moves the entire labor market, faster.
The ideal person we are looking for has been able to work successfully within high-availability environments and doesn’t mind deploying new servers and databases, troubleshooting a variety of unforeseen issues, and implementing new system architectures to optimize performance - all in the same day.
Responsibilities
As soon as you hit the ground at Bright, we will be relying on your expertise to…
Partner closely with engineering groups to design, build, and maintain systems
Develop innovative solutions to scalability issues using cloud computing
Be available and able to respond in a timely fashion to emergencies, such as system outages – even if it is after traditional work hours
Write and update internal documentation of our systems and processes as well as document systems designs, record active configuration, and write operational run books
Proactively analyze system-wide performance metrics in support of capacity planning
Create scripts to monitor and automate processes
Experience
Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, security, storage, SQL databases, and memcached
Networking and network configuration experience
User authentication / permissions management
Experience using Chef as a system configuration tool
Detailed knowledge and experience in UNIX/Linux systems and associated shell scripting (Perl, sh, csh)
Familiarity with data stores such as CouchDB or Solr
Experience working with ElasticSearch clusters, Percona clusters, job queues, AMQP, Redis, and nagios for alerting.
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