<div dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial;font-size:15.454545021057129px">Hi BBLISA - we are looking for a devops engineer to join our current 3-person operations team. </p>
<p style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial;font-size:15.454545021057129px">Some things about <a href="http://edx.org">edx.org</a> that I find exciting:</p><p style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial;font-size:15.454545021057129px">
* expanding online education and teaching the world - great mission, exciting environment</p><p style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial;font-size:15.454545021057129px">* the code you write including provisioning scripts are open sourced, we also engage the community for contributions</p>
<p style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial;font-size:15.454545021057129px">* plenty of interesting problems to solve</p><p style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial;font-size:15.454545021057129px">
Looking for candidates with strong scripting skills, experience with AWS preferred. If you are interested you can send mail to <a href="mailto:jarv@edx.org">jarv@edx.org</a> (also include <a href="mailto:jobs@edx.org">jobs@edx.org</a>). If you have sent us a resume in the past please feel free to send one to me again since sometimes they get lost in the shuffle.</p>
<p style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial;font-size:15.454545021057129px"><span style="font-size:15.454545021057129px">Full job description (</span><a href="https://www.edx.org/job/devops-engineer-%E2%80%93-systems/681" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal">https://www.edx.org/job/devops-engineer-%E2%80%93-systems/681</a>)<span style="font-size:15.454545021057129px">:</span></p>
<p style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial;font-size:15.454545021057129px">The Devop Engineers at edX help develop and maintain the infrastructure in AWS for all services and systems required to run edX. We're seeking a capable systems administrator who is unafraid of scripting languages and development to build out tools in order to improve the functionality of edX. The devops team primarily focuses on the provisioning, configuration, and deployment of services at edX. If you have a passion for automation and constant improvement then we want to hear from you. Our production environment is primarily built on Ubuntu (in AWS) and we use Puppet and Fabric to manage most of the environment.</p>
<p style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial;font-size:15.454545021057129px">In addition to the primary task of building infrastructure the Devops team supports the developers in a variety of other contexts, including helping with desktop development environments if required. We participate in on-call and emergency support and there will be occasional out of normal hours work required.</p>
<p style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial;font-size:15.454545021057129px"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul style="color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial;font-size:15.454545021057129px">
<li>Work with developers and staff to maintain and improve the infrastructure of edX.</li><li>Assist where needed with other technical support tasks to support the fast moving pace of edX.</li><li>Rapidly diagnose and resolve faults with organization-wide servers and services, and communicate to users as appropriate.</li>
</ul><p style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial;font-size:15.454545021057129px"><strong>Requirements:</strong></p><ul style="color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial;font-size:15.454545021057129px">
<li>Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science. But we're all about education, so let us know how you gained what you need to succeed in this role: projects after completing 6.00x or CS50x, Xbox cheevos, on-line guilds led, large scale innovations championed.3 or more years of systems administration. </li>
<li>Must have an excellent working knowledge of Linux both as an end-user and as an administrator.</li><li>Must be adept in programming/scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Bash.</li><li>Must be familiar with a configuration management system such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible.</li>
<li>Must have experience running web applications in a production environment.</li><li>Must have excellent personal interaction skills as the position requires interfacing with a wide range of people up to board level.</li>
<li>Ideally possesses experience with some of the following technologies: nginx, mysql, mongodb, django environments, splunk, git.</li></ul><p style="line-height:21px;color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial;font-size:15.454545021057129px">
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