Remote Financial + JavaScript + Operational + Security Jobs

\nWhat this job entails\n\nAs the Lead SRE at Tutuka you'll be working closely with entire technical team ensuring the reliability of enterprise-level, highly scalable, highly secure financial processing systems that power tens of millions of transactions and tying them to web, mobile and API interfaces that make it easy for people to issue, redeem and reconcile prepaid cards all over the world.\n\nWe already have a team of amazing developers that work out of our local offices in Johannesburg, South Africa as well as remotely across Europe and Southeast Asia, and now we need you to drive improvements in our reliability, scalability and efficiency.\n\nWhat you will be doing\n\nYou'll find every day an exciting challenge, helping our technical team transform a monolithic enterprise processing environment with bank-level security and 99.95% uptime, into a sleek, nimble, micro-service serverless processing environment with better than bank-level security and 99.99% uptime.\n\nIf it was easy, we would already have done it! This role may or may not involve the following:\n\n\n* Work closely with software engineering teams to improve availability, latency, performance, efficiency, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of services\n\n* Across hybrid cloud environment of hosted data centre and AWS\n\n* Handle upgrades of infrastructure and services through automation\n\n* Identify, gathering, documenting and automating responses to key performance metrics, logs, and alerts\n\n* Find optimizations and other efficiencies to scale the application\n\n* Develop playbooks and tools to streamline processes and shorten problem resolution time\n\n* Maintain infrastructure as a code management process\n\n* Perform periodic on call duties\n\n\n\n\nSkills & requirements\n\nWe love taking on team members with a variety of skill levels, from intern to PhD. But there's no getting around the fact that we need this person to know what they're doing, and hit the ground running.\n\nYou should already be an SRE guru with:\n\n\n* Solid understanding of operational principles, such as capacity planning, monitoring and incident handling\n\n* Experience automating manual processes, leveraging cloud (preferably AWS) platforms\n\n* Telemetry, tracing, logging, and alerting best-practices\n\n* Experience implementing monitored and seamless deployment pipelines\n\n* Internet fundamentals. HTTP/s, DNS, TCP/IP, security-by-design, caching\n\n\n\n\nExtra kudos are awarded for:\n\n\n* JVM performance tuning\n\n* Experience in monitoring of cloud based systems\n\n* Knowledge of automated testing frameworks and methodologies\n\n* Experience with some scripted and compiled/virtual languages (for example JavaScript and Go/JAVA)\n\n\n\n\nIf you have no site reliability engineering experience, your application cannot be considered. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Admin, Engineer, Sys Admin, Executive, JavaScript, Serverless, Cloud, API and Mobile 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

\nSummary\n\nWe are looking for a smart security practitioner with an interest in large scale systems. You understand the importance of testing and documentation, and common pitfalls in developing secure web applications. You must have a passion for the WMF mission. We do (almost) everything publicly, and volunteers can add arbitrary JavaScript to our site. That should both frighten and thrill you.\n\nPrivacy is one of the core values of the Wikimedia Foundation and you will be joining the team responsible for providing technical and governance security solutions to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of Wikimedia applications.  This is your opportunity to participate in and provide security and privacy solutions so together we can create a world in which everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.  \n\nThis is what you will be doing:\n\n\n* Review security controls, policies and procedures and provide recommendations for the adaption of new technologies or policies.  \n\n* Conduct internal and external security audits\n\n* Provide support for security incidents or events\n\n* Evaluate current organizational risk and threat profile\n\n* Identify improvement areas and provide organization wide security awareness training.  \n\n* Work with teams to ensure they make safe, compliant, design and architectural decisions\n\n* Participate in privacy initiatives\n\n* Participate in operational security initiatives\n\n\n\n\nYou’ll need these skills and experience:\n\n\n* 5+ years experience as part of an Information Security team\n\n* CISSP/GIAC\n\n* Experience in policy creation and enforcement\n\n* Experience with Threat Modeling and Risk Assessments\n\n* Experience in Incident Response\n\n* Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field or the equivalent in work related experience\n\n\n\n\nPluses\n\n\n* Wikimedia community experience\n\n* Interest in/passion for all things open source\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wikimedia Foundation is... \n\n\n...the nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge, free of interference. We host the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive financial support from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.\n\nThe Wikimedia Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply\n\n\n\nBenefits & Perks *\n\n\n* Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)\n\n* The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, baby sitting, continuing education and much more\n\n* The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary\n\n* Flexible and generous time off - vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 19 paid holidays - including the last week of the year.\n\n* Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room.\n\n* For those emergency moments - long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program\n\n* Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses\n\n* Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available\n\n* Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax\n\n* Great colleagues - diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people\n\n\n\n\n* for benefits eligible staff, benefits may vary by location\n\nMore information\n\nWMF\n\nBlog\n\nAnnual Report - 2017\n\nWikimedia 2030\n\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 InfoSec, Analyst and JavaScript jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $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