Technical Director - DevOps
ABOUT MOMENTFEED
MomentFeed is a digital marketing SaaS platform that connects brands and consumers at the local level. The platform empowers major brands including Starbucks, Sephora, and Red Lobster to capture local audiences, engage with consumers in authentic and locally relevant ways, and measure campaign performance down to the point of sale.
You will be an integral part of a rapidly growing, cutting-edge technology company with VC backing and huge growth potential. We believe in taking risks and that revolutionary ideas can come from anywhere and anyone.
THE ROLE
As the Technical Director - DevOps, you will be an integral part of the team responsible for building and enhancing the MomentFeed application suite. This is a hands-on role with supervisory responsibility over a small team of engineers.
We are a tight knit group, but you must also be comfortable working across teams and business units.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collaborate with our engineering team to detect and resolve infrastructure problems and enhance performance
- Create CICD pipelines using Jenkins and CodePipeline
- Write Dockerfiles for micro-services
- Code automations to manage our multi-region infrastructure
- Troubleshoot authentication issues, network connectivity, database replication, etc
- Participating in an on-call rotation
- Develop proactive monitoring and respond to alerts
- Help document devops workflows
- Forecast and plan for the infrastructure needs of a fast-growing SaaS company and finding ways to improve the efficiency
- Maintain highly available and redundant web and backend systems
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Prior experience leading and mentoring a team of DevOps Engineers
- Expert understanding of the Linux operating system
- Proficient in Python and shell scripting
- Minimum of 2-year experience in AWS administration
- Experience with Docker
- Experience working with automated server configuration and deployment tools
- Enthusiasm to learn and support teammates
- Commitment to security and best practices
- Familiarity with source control systems such as GIT
- Familiarity with REST APIs
- Basic understanding of VPC, Load Balancer, and security groups
BONUS POINTS
- Terraform
- SaltStack
- Kubernetes
- RabbitMQ
- SQS
- Nginx, HAProxy
- New Relic
- GrayLog
- MongoDB or other No SQL database experience
- Postgres or other relational database experience
COMPENSATION/NOTABLE PERKS
- Salary: competitive
- Health Benefits: comprehensive coverage (medical, dental, vision)
- Flexible Time Off
- MacBook Air/Pro laptop given to every employee on first day
- Referral Bonus Program