BitPusher, LLC offers excellent opportunities for professional growth. We have a strong commitment to being a leader in managed application hosting, with customer satisfaction being our number one priority.
Senior Linux Systems Engineer
Posted: January, 2012. Target start date: ASAP.
BitPusher is a small, rapidly growing web infrastructure company with offices in Seattle and San Francisco. We are seeking a creative, dynamic and highly responsible senior systems engineer to be based in the San Francisco office.
BitPusher manages web servers, networks and other IT infrastructure, both owned by BitPusher and hosted elsewhere. We build long-term relationships with our custome
rs and take the time to understand their applications, their technical needs and their business needs. We customize things as required to meet those needs, but we a
lso keep things as standard as we can for reasons that we're sure you already understand.
Do you like making order out of chaos? Are you effective when managing lots of little projects, but also have a tendency to make improvements that you didn't originally have in mind? Are you always looking for ways to manage servers more efficiently? If so, let's talk.
What you'll do at BitPusher:
- Work with customers on improvement and migration of production services as well as ongoing management
- Be a hands-on engineer for BitPusher's infrastructure, including networking, imaging and provisioning environment, and administrative/operations automation tools
- Play an active role in coming up with better ways to administer large numbers of systems supporting diverse applications, by improving both technical practices and processes
- Help take our application hosting techniques to the next level, both through incremental improvements and new platform design
- 'Own' the customer relationship ensuring BitPusher is a valued partner to our customers
- Participate in our on-call rotation
Requirements and Qualifications:
- Eight years of production systems administration/engineering experience in a Linux/UNIX environment, including at least four years in web operations
- Strong understanding of technologies such as load balancing and caching
- Experience with performance analysis and tuning for web-based applications (Apache, Nginx, Ruby, Tomcat, etc...)
- Expert-level knowledge of monitoring systems and configuration management systems (Puppet, Chef, Nagios, Munin, etc)
- Experience with virtualization using commodity hardware
- Strong scripting ability in Bash, Ruby, Perl and/or Python
- Ability to successfully work with multiple remote customers
- Strong personal and professional initiative with a focus on the success of the team and organization
Senior Dev-Ops Systems Engineer
Posted: January, 2012. Target start date: ASAP.
BitPusher is a small, rapidly growing web infrastructure company with offices in Seattle and San Francisco. We are seeking a creative, dynamic and highly responsible senior systems engineer to be based in the San Francisco office.
BitPusher manages web servers, networks and other IT infrastructure, both owned by BitPusher and hosted elsewhere. We build long-term relationships with our custome
rs and take the time to understand their applications, their technical needs and their business needs. We customize things as required to meet those needs, but we a
lso keep things as standard as we can for reasons that we're sure you already understand.
Do you like making order out of chaos? Are you effective when managing an automation architecture or a configuration management solution that will handle multiple environments? Are you always looking for ways to manage servers more efficiently? If so, let's talk.
What you'll do at BitPusher:
- Lead efforts to design, refine, improve, and maintain a robust configuration management solution (based on puppet)
- Lead efforts to design, develop, implement, and maintain a complex automation approach for server and environment management
- Provide automated solutions for recurring issues, predictable problems, and things which can 'self-heal'
- Be a hands-on engineer for BitPusher's infrastructure, including networking, imaging and provisioning environment, and administrative/operations automation tools
- Play an leading role in coming up with better ways to administer large numbers of systems on diverse networks supporting diverse applications, by improving technical practices, solutions, and processes
- Help take our application hosting techniques to the next level, both through incremental improvements and new platform design
- Serve as an internal resource for our customer facing systems engineers in order to automate solutions to problems
- Work on other related special projects that focus on: tools architecture, systems automation, configuration management, and environment scalability
Requirements and Qualifications:
- Eight years of production systems administration/engineering experience in a Linux/UNIX environment, including at least four years in web operations
- Strong understanding of technologies such as load balancing and caching (especially with open source solutions)
- Experience with performance analysis and tuning for web-based applications
- Expert-level knowledge of monitoring systems and configuration management systems
- Expert-level knowledge of scripting focused on server management automation in a common scripting language (ruby, python, perl, etc...)
- Experience with virtualization using commodity hardware
- Ability to successfully work with multiple remote environments
- Strong personal and professional initiative with a focus on the success of the team and organization
We are not engaging recruiters or agencies at this time, direct applicants only please. Please contact us by e-mail only, and send resumes to hr@bitpusher.com.