Lead DevOps Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- You need to care about maintaining a high-quality deployment. We've kept our uptime record with solid automation and monitoring, jumping on oddities before they become problems, and digging into root
- You need vision as well as execution. We need you to not only keep things running smoothly, but also help lead us where we need to go next. You need expertise in modern tools and AWS capabilities, and
- You need to be in touch with others' needs. We're a small, tight-knit crew where everyone pitches in. Empathy with clients and end-users is also core to our business. Everyone on the team works direct
Nice to have
- Experience working with all-remote teams.
- Experience with Django, MySQL, and Ansible.
- Experience with AWS features and patterns like VPCs, ELBs, SQS, auto-scaling groups, multi-zone deployments, and so on.
- That said, experience with our stack is maybe the least important factor here; Even if you've used Rails instead of Django, Postgres instead of MySQL, or Azure instead of AWS, we want to hear from you
Full description
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Location: San Francisco,California,United States
We Also Walk Dogs needs you to help our clients win fights to make the world a better place.
Our product, ActionKit (actionk.it), is used by dozens of major progressive groups and not-for-profits to stay in touch with tens of millions of online supporters. Our clients use ActionKit to fight climate change, push back against corporate power and more.
We've already begun moving our stack from on-premises servers to AWS, and need a DevOps engineer to help us take that effort to the next level. If you'd like to work at the intersection of cool cloud tech and making a better world, this is the job for you.
ActionKit is built by We Also Walk Dogs. Named after a Robert Heinlein story about a company that specialized in solving impossible problems, We Also Walk Dogs has spent over a decade serving online progressive organizations and charities. We're a small, friendly, and clever company. And we all work remotely.
Is this the job for you?
- Do you keep production systems running? According to our external monitoring, we've kept 99.98% uptime this past year, and gone three months without downtime, while very actively working on the product. We need someone with the expertise and discipline to help us keep that going.
- Do you think in the cloud? After starting with a fully on-premises deployment, today we're serving millions of end-users from AWS. But we know that intelligently deploying new tools and cloud capabilities can help us do things we could never do with just a rack of servers, and we need a DevOps engineer who can take us there.
- Can you can wear a lot of hats? We're a small company and not much for bureaucratic divisions. The boss codes; the project manager gives sales demos; most everyone, including you, does a shift of at least a few hours each week answering our clients' support tickets.
If this sounds like you, please apply!
Must haves:
- You need to care about maintaining a high-quality deployment. We've kept our uptime record with solid automation and monitoring, jumping on oddities before they become problems, and digging into root causes when things go wrong. We need you to be able to continue that tradition.
- You need vision as well as execution. We need you to not only keep things running smoothly, but also help lead us where we need to go next. You need expertise in modern tools and AWS capabilities, and a strategic sense of how we can use them for efficiency, manageability, performance, and reliability.
- You need to be in touch with others' needs. We're a small, tight-knit crew where everyone pitches in. Empathy with clients and end-users is also core to our business. Everyone on the team works directly with clients.