[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.