LOCATION: Palo Alto or Santa Monica, CA
TITLE: DevOps Engineer
REPORTS TO: DevOps Manager
As an integral part of the operation team, the SysOps/DevOps Engineer will be in charge of making sure the TigerText service stays an industry leader and has the top level of reliability in the industry. Join us and help manage the Amazon EC2 and additional cloud / hosted infrastructure. Monitor and tune the performance of the infrastructure. Identify and correct bottlenecks in the system, while working with development teams on optimizations and best-practices.
The SysOps/DevOps Engineer will have at least 5 + years commercial experience as full stack software developer and/or linux systems administrator, with at least 1 year of current commercial experience as a DevOps engineer working on a high-traffic site.
Candidate's background should include systems programming or scripting in a dynamic languages (ruby, python, bash, perl, javascript).
Experience with:
Infrastructure as code / cloud / data center automation (Chef, Cloudformation, AWS API)
High-performance, open source web technologies (nginx, haproxy)
Public cloud platforms (Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud)
Open source databases (Redis, Cassandra, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Hadoop)
Monitoring systems (Sensu, Logstash, Kibana, Graphite, etc)
Messaging systems (Kafka, ActiveMQ)
Common Unix network protocols (ssh, tcp, http, snmp, smtp)
Common data formats (json, ASCII, xml)
High-availability, high-performance technologies (NLB, CDN, memcache, etc)
Exposure to erlang and NodeJS is a plus
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent
THE COMPANY:
TigerText provides secure, real-time mobile messaging for the enterprise, empowering organizations to work more securely. More than 5,000 locations and four of the top five largest for-profit health systems in the nation, including Universal Health Services, rely on TigerText to meet compliance regulations and replace unsecured SMS text messaging that leaves protected or confidential information at risk. With over 4.5 million app downloads, TigerText has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Inc., Business Insider and many other leading business and tech publications. It is recognized as one of the 50 LA Tech Startups to Watch in 2015, a top Must-See LA Tech Office, and one of the 5 Sizzling Silicon Beach Startups to Watch by Entrepreneur. TigerText currently has over 125 employees with offices in Santa Monica, Palo Alto, and Tel Aviv, Israel.
WHY TIGERTEXT?
TigerText is the largest enterprise messenger in the US
Join our team in making major and much-needed changes in the way billion- dollar, life changing industries work
Prime office space in the three major tech ecosystems of the world - Santa Monica, Silicon Valley, and Tel Aviv - each complete with a loaded fridge and tons of other perks
An opportunity to work closely with proven executive team, board, and serial entrepreneurs (www.tigertext.com/about)
An environment that embraces a “work hard-play hard” culture and has fun
Team members love what they do and are willing to go the extra mile to help our clients and support the company’s rapid growth
This is a full time opportunity with competitive salary and medical benefits
TigerText is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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