Saturday, May 21, 2011

[KITlist-Tech] DevOps Systems Engineer (San Francisco, CA)

Please direct your responses to: jobs@powerreviews.com

DevOps Systems Engineer
PowerReviews- A Social Media Solutions Company
San Francisco, CA
jobs@powerreviews.com

PowerReviews is the leading provider of social commerce software-as-a-service solutions to global retailers and brands. The company´s unique structured data approach to collecting, organizing, and analyzing user-generated content significantly boosts product sales and customer engagement.
We've got the Power:
• PowerReviews is live on over 4,700 websites - across 13 languages in 21 countries - including Staples, Drugstore.com, Room & Board, ESPN, Neutrogena, Quicksilver, and Jockey.
• Recognized as the customer reviews Solution Leader in the Internet Retailer Top 500 survey, PowerReviews has received venture capital backing from Four Rivers Group, Woodside Fund, Menlo Ventures and Tenaya Capital.
• PowerReviews has received two patents since 2009 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (U.S. Patent No. 7,930,363) relating to the method in which it delivers user-generated product reviews to more than 4,700 websites globally.

DevOps Systems Engineer
The ideal candidate will be a Linux system administrator coder with hands-on experience supporting highly available production systems. They will embrace the DevOps movement and are ready to author tools to reliably manage infrastructure.

Responsibilities

* Linux systems operations architecture and setup
* Systems monitoring and alerting strategies and implementation
* Design, implement and maintain our system provisioning framework
* Plan and coordinate systems maintenance to ensure minimal customer impact
* Create operational documentation and troubleshooting guidelines
* Participation in on-call rotation schedule
* Implement scaling best practices
* Design, code and conduct reviews

Requirements

* Good scripting skills in at least one of (Ruby, Python, Perl, Shell)
* Minimum 3 years administrating production Linux systems in a 24x7 environment
* Experience with automated systems provisioning (puppet, capistrano, chef, cfengine)
* Solid understanding of common security principles
* Proficiency with version control (SVN, GIT)
* Capable of explaining highly technical problems in English
* Intelligent and self-motivated
* Fast learner with strong problem-solving skills
* Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Nice-to-Have´s

* Live and breathe performance
* Database experience, preferably Postgres
* Experience with bootstrapping solutions (PXE, kickstart, anaconda)
* Cloud computing (EC2, Rackspace Cloud, Slicehost)
* Open source contributor
* BS or MS in computer science or related field
* Previous start-up work experience

Technologies We Use - the more of these you know, the better:

Environments: Linux, JVM
Languages: Java, Ruby, Python, Perl, Bash
Persistence: Hibernate, Postgres, Amazon S3, MySQL
Systems Operations: Puppet, Capistrano
Caching: memcached, ehcache, CDN
Principles: REST, DRY, TDD

We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience, incentive stock options, and benefits.

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