TechOps Engineer

Posted on April 11th, 2012 by

Animoto is building a Systems (DevOps) Team.

You’ve heard of Animoto because we were the original “poster child” for Cloud Computing (back in the day).  We have a solid business model, lots of customers, and lots of awards. We’ve partnered with Bon Jovi, Adobe, SmugMug, Pepsi and more.

We’re telling you this because we’re looking for a few talented individuals to help keep our services running smoothly. Specifically, the systems group is hiring. The systems group provides the behind-the-scenes services that nobody thinks about: infrastructure and services for the developers and designers who make our site.

This is not a “babysit the server” sysadmin job. This is not a “get the code thrown over the wall” ops job. This is not a “Ruby on Rails” website job. This is hard-core web-scale high-scalability high-automation next-generation DevOps systems administration. If you think you have what it takes, we’d love to hear from you. 

Responsibilities

  • Support Animoto’s dynamically scaled cloud infrastructure.
  • Work in a demanding, fast-paced atmosphere.
  • Able to support a 24×7 operations and Participate in on-call rotation.
  • Plan & implement projects, upgrades, fixes to entire system environment.
  • Tune and optimize performance through hardware and software changes.

Requirements

  • 5-7 years of demonstrated proficiency in Linux administration.
  • Experience with AWS or other Virtualization technologies.
  • Excellent command line skill set.
  • Good understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS and various network protocols.
  • Experience managing system configurations with Puppet, Chef or CFEngine.
  • Familiar with automated systems provisioning and deployments.
  • Understanding of various monitoring tools and escalation patterns.
  • Super strong scripting (bash, python, or ruby).
  • Knowledge of various data stores – MySQL, NoSQL
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or related experience).
  • Clear communication and documentation of procedures and projects.
  • Team player and project management.

We offer a competitive salary, awesome benefits with PPO Health Insurance Plan 100% paid for employee and dependents, participation in employee stock option plan.

Apply by email: devjobs@animoto.com

About ckorhonen

Chris Korhonen is the British-born UX designer here at Animoto. Chris has over 10 years of experience developing for the web and before joining Animoto he was at American Express developing their online services and driving strategy. Chris has a lot of hands on experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript, Ruby and Java and recently published a book on using APIs to create mashups using Adobe Flex and Air. You can follow him on Twitter.

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