Puppet users - Feb 2011 - WeatherBill: Operations Engineer - San Francisco

Operations Engineer
WeatherBill, Inc
San Francisco, CA

WeatherBill is a successful start-up in the heart of San Francisco
with an open and flat-structured environment that is revolutionizing
how the world deals with weather risk and peril through sophisticated
parametric modeling that can be used in any industry.
Position Overview
Due to significant growth, we have a challenging opportunity available
for an Operations Engineer to evolve our existing automated
infrastructure to support the expanded needs of our customers. In this
role you will partner with the Engineering and QA teams to ensure that
products can be deployed quickly and easily, the technical
infrastructure is monitored and self-managing, and that clear recovery
and business continuity plans are in effect.
What You Will Do
* Manage the existing Amazon EC2-hosted staging and production
environments
* Evolve the existing puppet-managed infrastructure to support
extended growth and reliability requirements
* Lead initiatives to improve the stability and scalability of the
production environment
* Review and integrate Amazon EC2 infrastructure product offerings as
appropriate
* Manage deployments of software and configurations
* Script development to monitor performance of all deployed
applications and tune environment to ensure maximum performance
* Perform capacity and systems planning for all deployed applications
* Share 24 x 7 on-call duties and after-hours responsibilities as
required or defined

What You Offer
* Relevant four-year degree or equivalent industry experience.
* Experience in a mission-critical 24x7 production environment
required
* Experience scaling and managing systems in the Amazon EC2
environment
* Minimum of 5 years of production Linux system administration
experience, recent experience with Ubuntu server preferred
* Knowledge of high-availability strategies and technologies, site
reliability engineering best practices (caching, sharding, etc.)
* Experience automating system configuration and administration with
puppet
* An understanding of scalable monitoring and statistics gathering
architectures and tools
* Experience in Shell scripting, Python, or Ruby
* Experience managing and optimizing MySQL
* Organized, self-managing, requiring little supervision
* Excellent oral/written communication and documentation skills
What We Offer
* Driven, motivated, and talented team
* Energetic, idea-driven and transparent work environment
* Exciting, world-changing opportunity
* Competitive salary, stock options and great benefits (medical,
dental, vision, life insurance, long-term disability, 401(k), paid
vacation, holidays, sick leave)

Interested individuals are invited to email resumes to Gary Jong at:
gjong@weatherbill.com

All replies will be managed promptly and professionally and be held in
strict confidence.

WeatherBill supports diversity in the workplace.

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