[BBLISA-jobs] Principal Ops Engineer / Systems Architect / Infrastructure Manager

[Mark Niedzielski]

Principal Ops Engineer / Systems Architect / Infrastructure Manager

We are a young company with an established web presence in the entertainment industry and are looking for a talented new member in our operations team to help grow and maintain the site.

Skills Required:

- Solid Unix/Linux configuration & diagnostics:  co-workers (current and former) look to you for expertise.
- Experience using and troubleshooting a web stack:  you've worked on a web application that people use.   (Modern multi-tier experience also welcome.)
- Accustomed to thinking about performance, scaling, redundancy and uptime:  architecture impact and application failure modes are natural considerations.

About Us:

We are a young, well-known, online Music company with a talented and creative staff hungry to grow our site into a household name. We've continuously grown the business while others in our space have fallen. Players in the industry know we are one to watch. We impress our partners with our ability to deliver. We enjoy what we do and the people we work with.

About The Job:

Our new ops engineer will report directly to the VP of Operations and share responsibility for the architecture and maintenance of our Q/A, development and production environments. Each day will include the opportunity to contribute to a strong technical team, solve challenging technical problems and learn from and teach motivated co-workers.

About You:

You likely have experience doing some of the following:
- Configuring and tuning web servers, databases and load balancers.
- Monitoring systems and distributed applications.
- Troubleshooting performance and functional system and application problems.
- Diagnosing and quantifying networking problems.
- Architecting highly-available production environments.
- Mentoring developers on production hardening of applications.
- Quantifying user browser problems with web applications.
- Transcoding music and video.

And you probably have direct production experience with some of the following or related:
- Ruby on Rails
- PostgreSQL and MySQL
- Memcached
- Linux (bonus for Redhat or CentOS)
- Solaris (bonus for OpenSolaris or OpenIndiana)
- Haproxy
- Lighttpd
- ZFS

But most importantly you are a hungry, get-it-done, performance and scale-oriented, 5-nines engineer with an appreciation for high quality design and maintainable implementations. You will make a difference and enjoy doing so. Your competence will inspire us. You've probably been told you should blog about your work so that the rest of us can learn from it. You are a digital native (regardless of whether you fit the typical age). And you thrive in a start-up; at ease in a fast paced environment where decisions are sometimes made with limited information.  You stand out as a generalist in a world of specialists.

Who is OurStage?

OurStage.com is an online music destination unlike any other. It's a meeting space for music lovers, and the place where tomorrow's stars get discovered. Artists, fans and the entire industry come together here to celebrate and influence new music. Undiscovered artists submit their tracks to monthly music channels, fans rank their material, and industry professionals keep tabs on who's rising through the charts, rewarding the best of the best with priceless opportunities. Fans and artists are
eligible for monthly prizes and life-altering prospects for success, made possible through OurStage's partnerships with media giants such as MTV; key radio conglomerates like Citadel Media and Radio-One; leading Web outlets like AOL Music; and major music festivals such as Bonnaroo, Bumbershoot, Noise Pop and CMJ. Founded in 2007, OurStage delivers music and editorial coverage to over 4 million monthly visitors from more than 170 countries, as well as development tools to more than 120,000 artists. For more information on the world's most authentic online music community, visit http://www.ourstage.com.

This position is contract with an opportunity to join us full time.  Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Recent college grads and those with less experience but significant talent and drive are welcome to apply, if you can prove your skill. We know real talent does not fit a checklist.

To apply, send email to jobs AT ourstage.com.