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\nOpportunity\n\nSecurityScorecard is hiring a DevOps Engineer to bridge the gap between our global development and operational teams who is motivated to help continue automating and scaling our infrastructure. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for setting up and managing the operation of project development and test environments as well as the software configuration management processes for the entire application development lifecycle. Your role would be to ensure the optimal availability, latency, scalability, and performance of our product platforms. You would also be responsible for automating production operations, promptly notifying backend engineers of platform issues, and checking long term quality metrics.\n\nOur infrastructure is based on AWS with a mix of managed services like RDS, ElastiCache, and SQS, as well as hundreds of EC2 instances managed with Ansible and Terraform. We are actively using three AWS regions, and have equipment in several data centers across the world.\n\nRegions: North America (GMT-7.00) Mountain time - (GMT-4.00) Atlantic time\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Training, mentoring, and lending expertise to coworkers with regards to operational and security best practises. \n\n* Reviewing and providing feedback on GitHub Pull Requests to team members AND development teams- a significant percentage of our Software Engineers have written Terraform.\n\n* Identifying opportunities for technical and process improvement and owning the implementation. \n\n* Championing the concepts of immutable containers, Infrastructure as Code, stateless applications, and software observability throughout the organization.\n\n* Systems performance tuning with a focus on high availability and scalability.\n\n* Building tools to ease the usability and automation of processes\n\n* Keeping products up and operating at full capacity\n\n* Assisting with migration processes as well as backup and replication mechanisms\n\n* Working on a large-scale distributed environment where you were focused on scalability/reliability/performance\n\n* Ensuring proper monitoring / alerting are configured\n\n* Investigating incidents and performance lapses\n\n\n\n\nCome help us with projects such as…\n\n\n* Extending our compute clusters to support low latency, on-demand job execution\n\n* Turning pets into cattle\n\n* Cross region replication of systems and corresponding data to support low latency access\n\n* Rolling out application performance monitoring to existing services, extending integrations where required\n\n* Migration from self hosted ELK to a SaaS stack\n\n* Continuous improvement of CI/CD processes making builds & deployments faster, safer, and more consistent\n\n* Extending a Global VPN WAN to a datacenter with IPSec+BGP\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* 3+ years of DevOps and/or Operations experience in a Linux based environment\n\n* 1+ years of production environment experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)\n\n* 1+ years using SQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres)\n\n* Strong scripting abilities (bash/python)\n\n* Strong Experience with CI/CD processes (Jenkins, Ansible) and automated configuration tools (Puppet/Chef/Ansible)\n\n* Experience with container orchestration (AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Marathon/Mesos)\n\n* Ability to work as part of a highly collaborative team\n\n* Understanding of monitoring tools like DataDog\n\n* Strong written and verbal communication skills\n\n\n\n\nNice to Have\n\n\n* You knew exactly what was meant by "Turning pets into cattle"\n\n* Experience working with Kubernetes on bare-metal and/or the AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service.\n\n* Experience with RabbitMQ, MongoDB, or Apache Kafka.\n\n* Experience with Presto or Apache Spark.\n\n* Familiarity with computation orchestration tools such as HTCondor, Apache Airflow, or Argo.\n\n* Understanding of network concepts- OSI layers, firewalls, DNS, split horizon DNS, VPN, routing, BGP, etc.\n\n* A deep understanding of AWS IAM, and how it interacts with S3 buckets.\n\n* Experience with SAFe.\n\n* Strong programming skills in 2+ languages.\n\n\n\n\nTooling We Use\n\n\n* Data definition, format and interfaces\n\n\n\n* Definitions - Protobuf V3\n\n* Normalize from - JSON / XML / CSV\n\n* Normalize to - Protobuf / ORC\n\n* Interfaces - REST API(s) and object store buckets\n\n\n\n* Cloud Services - Amazon Web Services\n\n* Databases: Postgresql, PrestoDB\n\n* Cache: Redis, Varnish\n\n* Languages: Python / C++14 / Scala / Golang / Javascript / Ruby / Java\n\n* Job Orchestration - HTCondor / Apache Airflow / Rundeck\n\n* Analytics - Spark \n\n* Storage: NFS/EFS, AWS S3, HDFS\n\n* Computation - Docker Containers / VMs / Metal / EMR\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, InfoSec, Senior, Engineer, JavaScript, Amazon, Python, Scala, Ruby, SaaS, Golang, Apache, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nSenior Software Engineer - Ruby, Python or Haskell\n\n- Berlin or Stuttgart (Germany) or Remote -\n\nAttention Developers! At virtualQ you get the chance to work on an innovative and awarded product with top-notch technology and software management tools. We have a German-American background and like the concept of simplicity, design and flat hierarchy. You have the chance to work in an awesome team atmosphere with lots for individual liberties. Do you want to change the way in which people wait on hold in customer service telephone lines with us? Are you interested in topics like Machine Learning and Voice Automation? Then you should take your chance and join us as a Senior Backend Developer.\n\nIN A NUTSHELL – WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO\nvirtualQ provides a novel cloud-solution that waits on hold during longer waiting times for callers of Customer Service Centers. Callers can spend their time productively until virtualQ alerts them to call back when it is their turn. Moreover, the smart voice assistant of virtualQ provides answers to frequently asked questions. Thereby, the virtualQ enterprise software creates an unique customer experience, which is currently turning the service industry upside down. On the company´s side the smart virtualQ algorithms enable Customer Service Centers to manage their incoming calls automatically and more efficiently. Well-known companies like Lufthansa Albatros, the German insurances HanseMerkur and Gothar and the Austrian railway provider Österreichische Bundesbahn are already working with our software successfully. Several national and international institutions awarded the innovative cloud-products of virtualQ and the company is backed by an institutional investment fund.\n\nWITH THESE ACTIVITIES YOU WILL HAVE A GREAT IMPACT ON OUR BUSINESS\n\n\n* Work closely with our CTO and shape our product\n\n* Help build the development process of our growing team\n\n* Design Software and Architecture for our Stack, using the latest technologies\n\n* Design Voice and Audio Applications / Machine Learning Algorithms and Interfaces, that will shape the future of virtualQ\n\n* Work with a team of great Front and Backend developers\n\n* Support DevOps of Amazon AWS hosted Servers, Heroku etc.\n\n* Develop Monitoring, Uptime and Security Strategies\n\n* Bring in your own ideas and creativity\n\n\n\n\nWITH THESE SKILLS YOU WILL BE OUR PERFECT CANDIDATE\n\nMUST HAVES\n\n\n* You love cool tech stacks like Clojure, Haskell, Python\n\n* You know Ruby or Python by heart\n\n* You are familiar with AWS, Heroku and the likes\n\n* You speak German OR English fluently (native or 2nd language)\n\n* You have got a technical education / background\n\n* You do not take things for granted, instead you question the status quo\n\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n\n* You have worked with some of the following systems / languages: \n\n* Twilio / Nexmo\n\n* OpsWorks\n\n* Chef or Puppet\n\n* Containers / Docker\n\n* Linux Servers / Web Servers\n\n* Open Source Databases\n\n* Machine Learning\n\n* Algorithms\n\n* You have worked in the Telecommunication market before\n\n\n\n\nWE HAVE GOT A LOT TO OFFER\n\n\n* A fair salary – we might be a startup, but we pay like a company\n\n* Results Only Work Environment – we do not care when and where you work, we care about your work results. Therefore, we do not count working hours or holidays. Home Office Days are part of our company culture\n\n* Plenty of freedom and opportunities to grow in a young company, which is currently turning the Service Center market upside down\n\n* Workshops? Seminars? BarCamps? Tell us what you need to develop your skills and we will make it happen\n\n* An awesome, international, open minded team\n\n\n\n\nYOUR DREAMJOB MIGHT BE JUST A CLICK AWAY. SO APPLY NOW!\nYour contact person: Anika\n\nWe are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.\n\nApply online\n\n\nlooking for something else? Check our job list! \n\nPosted By\nAnika Baumann\nHead of Marketing & HR \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, English, Amazon, Education, Python, Ruby, Marketing, Heroku and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n