THE COMPANY:

Active Measure is a consumer insight platform. We help Fortune 1000 companies collect and analyze high quality consumer data to improve decision making. Our cutting-edge technology and innovative strategies have led thousands of companies to success in creating relevant, consumer-driven products and services.

THE TEAM:

We believe the best software is written and managed by small teams that know how to make the impossible possible. We use agile software development techniques and modern tools to focus our efforts on solving our business goals. We use JIRA to track everything we do. We deliver early and often. We obsess over our code, architecture and infrastructure and we believe that these practices lead to higher quality products.

YOU:

You have a passion for building and leading high performing engineering teams to set up and maintain high traffic production systems. You are self-motivated, and enjoy working in a user-focused, highly intelligent, entrepreneurial environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build and lead a growing team of high-performing engineers by providing strong leadership
• Help define and enforce DevOps standards, procedures, and guidelines to improve the overall development process
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your peers
• Cultivate a modern DevOps culture and mindset throughout your teams and establish performance metrics and processes to improve velocity and deliverability
• Deploy and support high-performance, highly-available infrastructure on AWS
• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning
• Conduct periodic on call duties
• Own the day-to-day health, uptime, monitoring, and reliability of our cloud infrastructure
• Work closely with engineering and project management to develop tools and solutions
• Identify tactical issues and react to emerging areas of concern
• Think long-term and dislike band-aids
• Identify unnecessary complexity and remove it

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years experience in a SRE/SysAdmin, DevOps, or equivalent role
• 3+ years of production AWS experience, including but not limited to EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, Auto Scale, ELB
• 2+ years of experience in technical leadership role managing DevOps in Agile environments (Scrum)
• Capability to program in at least one language (other than Bash), ideally Python, PHP or Java
• Solid knowledge of the Linux architecture
• Experience with container stacks and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, ECS, etc)
• Experience with Configuration Management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Ansible
• Experience with Infrastructure as a Code frameworks such as Terraform
• Experience with Microservices
• Experience with application monitoring tools (DataDog, New Relic, SumoLogic, etc)
• Strong knowledge of core protocols and tech such as: TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, load balancers, distributed file systems, key-value and relational databases
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced work environment
• Experience with CI/CD tools and production code deployments

DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS

• Humility and Integrity
• Self-starter with the ability to independently identify and act on areas of improvement
• Meticulous and cautious. You identify and consider all risks, and balance those with performing the task efficiently.
• Knowledge and interest in the latest system architecture trends
• Ability to rapidly learn and understand new systems
• Ability to communicate effectively and write accurate, clear documentation
• Comfortable working in a highly collaborative environment including strong communication skills.
• Extremely curious about how things work.

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Catered lunches on Tuesdays & Fridays
• Xbox Kinect, Ping Pong, Foosball table
• Coffee, Tea, Sodas and Snacks
• Flexible hours
• Company outings
• Fast-paced work environment

OUR VALUES

• Honesty & Integrity: We are honest with each other, vendors, customers, and honest with ourselves. We acknowledge things as they are, not as we wish them to be.
• Commitment to Rational Thinking: Decisions are based on logic and reason -- instead of emotions or intuition.
• Responsibility: We take ownership over the outcome. We share the entrepreneurial spirit and play to win.
• Excellence: As individuals we have higher expectations for ourselves. We are committed to personal excellence and self improvement.
• Curiosity: We are curious people that are always learning about new things and investigating new areas: everything from buying novel products at the grocery store to exploring new information technology.