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We’re searching for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to help dailykos.com and related merchandise. As Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you can be chargeable for planning, designing and implementing infrastructure initiatives (together with safety, efficiency optimization, and monitoring/observability), coaching utility engineers, and creating runbook documentation. To perform this, you’ll ideate with engineers and the QA crew and work independently to execute in your challenge plans. You’ll report back to the Director of Engineering to make sure your work advances the strategic objectives of the group and the progressive motion.
Our stack consists of Kubernetes, Ruby on Rails, Elasticache, Redis, Sidekiq, MySQL, AWS.
This position is solely represented by the Pacific Media Staff Guild, CWA Native 39521.
Obligations
- Assist and keep our improvement, staging and manufacturing environments
- Keep our CI/CD pipeline(s)
- Create, innovate, and keep our monitoring and observability platform
- Drive efficiency initiatives round database optimization
- Proper-size our cloud surroundings
- Collaborate with engineering management to handle cloud prices
- Work collaboratively with distant teammates
- Create runbooks and different documentation
- Share data with utility engineers and contribute to utility code as wanted
- Act as a contributing member of the on name crew
- Personal and develop safety initiatives as required
- Not less than three years {of professional} expertise with Kubernetes and Terraform
- Expertise with a public cloud surroundings (ideally AWS)
- Expertise with SQL and database optimization (ideally MySQL)
- Can develop and help in-house monitoring and observability dashboards (Grafana’s LGTM stack)
- Skill to thrive as the one infrastructure engineer supporting a small crew in a excessive site visitors surroundings (wonderful communication abilities and skill to take private initiative)
- Expertise with writing and testing Ruby
- Documented historical past of supporting safety initiatives (pen testing, bug bounty packages)
- Believer in infrastructure as code and writing self-documenting techniques
Every day Kos is proud to ship a powerful complete rewards program to our staff.
The place gives:
- Aggressive compensation
- Distant-first work surroundings
- Paid worker medical, dental and imaginative and prescient advantages
- 401K with a 5% firm match
- 9 Firm-paid holidays
- 6 weeks trip
- Paid Sick Time
- Traumatic Grief Depart
- Paid parental/household/medical depart
- Distant Employee Stipend
- Skilled Growth Stipend
- Worker Referral Bonus Program
- Flex Spending Account
- Worker Help Program (EAP)
- Firm paid brief & long run incapacity
- Voluntary Accident & Crucial Sickness profit
This place is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt place and studies to the Director of Engineering. Every day Kos has an workplace in Oakland, California. This position is absolutely distant. Candidates should be legally eligible to work in the USA. Our organizational dedication to private development and work-life stability reduces churn and encourages a really rewarding long run place.
At Every day Kos, we imagine that the range of concepts, experiences, and cultures that our staff contribute to our group assist us be more practical activists, and we’re proud to be an inclusive and equal alternative office. We’ve got a crew of wonderful individuals with completely different backgrounds and abilities which might be energized by the day’s information occasions, and other people united by widespread trigger. We’re an organization that loves studying and helps development and coaching for all our staff.
Ladies, individuals of shade, individuals with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people are strongly inspired to use.
