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We’re searching for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to beef up dailykos.com and related merchandise. As Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you are going to be chargeable for making plans, designing and imposing infrastructure initiatives (together with safety, efficiency optimization, and tracking/observability), coaching software engineers, and growing runbook documentation. To perform this, you are going to ideate with engineers and the QA group and paintings independently to execute to your venture plans. You’ll report back to the Director of Engineering to make sure your paintings advances the strategic objectives of the group and the modern motion.Â
Our stack contains Kubernetes, Ruby on Rails, Elasticache, Redis, Sidekiq, MySQL, AWS.
This position is completely represented by means of the Pacific Media Staff Guild, CWA Native 39521.
Tasks
- Enhance and deal with our construction, staging and manufacturing environments
- Deal with our CI/CD pipeline(s)
- Create, innovate, and deal with our tracking and observability platform
- Power efficiency tasks round database optimization
- Proper-size our cloud setting
- Collaborate with engineering management to regulate cloud prices
- Paintings collaboratively with far flung teammatesÂ
- Create runbooks and different documentation
- Proportion wisdom with software engineers and give a contribution to software code as wanted
- Act as a contributing member of the on name group
- Personal and expand safety tasks as required
- No less than 3 years {of professional} revel in with Kubernetes and Terraform
- Revel in with a public cloud setting (preferably AWS)
- Revel in with SQL and database optimization (preferably MySQL)
- Can expand and beef up in-house tracking and observability dashboards (Grafana’s LGTM stack)
- Skill to thrive as the one infrastructure engineer supporting a small group in a high-traffic setting (very good verbal exchange abilities and talent to take private initiative)
- Revel in with writing and checking out Ruby
- Documented historical past of supporting safety tasks (pen checking out, trojan horse bounty systems)
- Believer in infrastructure as code and writing self-documenting programs
Day-to-day Kos is proud to ship a powerful overall rewards program to our staff.
The placement gives:
- Aggressive repayment
- Faraway-first paintings setting
- Paid worker scientific, dental and imaginative and prescient advantages
- 401K with a 5% corporate fit
- 9 Corporate-paid vacationsÂ
- 6 weeks holidayÂ
- Paid Ill Time
- Demanding Grief Depart
- Paid parental/circle of relatives/scientific go away
- Faraway Employee Stipend
- Skilled Construction Stipend
- Worker Referral Bonus Program
- Flex Spending Account
- Worker Help Program (EAP)
- Corporate paid brief & long run incapacity
- Voluntary Twist of fate & Essential Sickness get advantages
This place is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt place and experiences to the Director of Engineering. Day-to-day Kos has an place of work in Oakland, California. This position is absolutely far flung. Applicants should be legally eligible to paintings in the US. Our organizational dedication to private expansion and work-life stability reduces churn and encourages an excessively rewarding long run place.
At Day-to-day Kos, we consider that the range of concepts, stories, and cultures that our staff give a contribution to our group assist us be simpler activists, and we’re proud to be an inclusive and equivalent alternative administrative center. We’ve got a group of fantastic other people with other backgrounds and skills which can be energized by means of the day’s information occasions, and other people united by means of not unusual purpose. We’re an organization that loves studying and helps expansion and coaching for all our staff.
Girls, other people of colour, other people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ persons are strongly inspired to use.
