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We’re in search of a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to assist dailykos.com and related merchandise. As Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you can be liable for planning, designing and implementing infrastructure initiatives (together with safety, efficiency optimization, and monitoring/observability), coaching software engineers, and creating runbook documentation. To perform this, you’ll ideate with engineers and the QA staff 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 contains Kubernetes, Ruby on Rails, Elasticache, Redis, Sidekiq, MySQL, AWS.
This function is completely represented by the Pacific Media Staff Guild, CWA Native 39521.
Tasks
- Help and preserve our improvement, staging and manufacturing environments
- Keep our CI/CD pipeline(s)
- Create, innovate, and preserve our monitoring and observability platform
- Drive efficiency initiatives round database optimization
- Proper-size our cloud atmosphere
- Collaborate with engineering management to handle cloud prices
- Work collaboratively with distant teammates
- Create runbooks and different documentation
- Share data with software engineers and contribute to software code as wanted
- Act as a contributing member of the on name staff
- Personal and develop safety initiatives as required
- At the least three years {of professional} expertise with Kubernetes and Terraform
- Expertise with a public cloud atmosphere (ideally AWS)
- Expertise with SQL and database optimization (ideally MySQL)
- Can develop and assist in-house monitoring and observability dashboards (Grafana’s LGTM stack)
- Skill to thrive as the one infrastructure engineer supporting a small staff in a excessive site visitors atmosphere (wonderful communication expertise and talent 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
Day by day Kos is proud to ship a robust whole rewards program to our staff.
The place presents:
- Aggressive compensation
- Distant-first work atmosphere
- 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 go away
- 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 & Important Sickness profit
This place is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt place and stories to the Director of Engineering. Day by day Kos has an workplace in Oakland, California. This function is absolutely distant. Candidates have to be legally eligible to work in the USA. Our organizational dedication to non-public progress and work-life steadiness reduces churn and encourages a really rewarding long run place.
At Day by 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 have now a staff of fantastic individuals with completely different backgrounds and skills which might be energized by the day’s information occasions, and folks united by widespread trigger. We’re an organization that loves studying and helps progress and coaching for all our staff.
Ladies, individuals of colour, individuals with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people are strongly inspired to use.