DevOps Engineer - Work Remotely

Type of Position: Full-Time, 1 year Contract with option to extend

WHO WE ARE

Anytime, Anywhere, Any Computer Access. At Raising the Floor, we’re an international coalition of individuals and organizations dedicated to ensuring that the Internet, and everything available through it, is accessible to people with accessibility barriers due to disability, literacy, or age, and regardless of economic resources. Our vision is to revolutionize the landscape of assistive technology by creating an infrastructure to facilitate the development, distribution, and support of a wide range of affordable accessibility solutions around the world. That is, the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII).

THE POSITION

You will join a team of bright and talented software developers located across continents, who are passionate about our vision, that of radically improving the access to technology. How? By developing a system that supports the “portability” of user preferences across any platform or device. You will be working in an open source development environment, from anywhere in the world and enjoying a flexible schedule. 

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Help the team automate all aspects of the process of deploying applications and the infrastructure required for them (container orchestration, storage, networking, security, authentication, logging, monitoring, etc.)

• Help the team improve the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipeline (from developer tools, to testings, to deploying to production), including troubleshooting issues at any stage.
• Help the team understand code failures, collaborate to provide a solution and offer advice on best practices for improving code so that it is robust when deployed in production.
• Help maintain and troubleshoot the existing infrastructure of microservices (mostly Node.js, CouchDB), traditional applications (e.g., Java, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL) as well as legacy or other off-the-shelf/commercial applications, as required.

• Work with the team to identify shortcomings in procedures, existing projects, and/or long-term objectives, and perform work in a way that would address immediate needs while targeting broader roadmaps.

   

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• 7+ years of experience in Linux system administration (RHEL, CentOS or Fedora preferred)

• 5+ years of experience managing datacenter virtualization platforms (e.g., KVM/libvirt, Xen, VMware)

• 3+ years of experience managing private cloud solutions (e.g., OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenNebula, Eucalyptus)

• 2+ years of experience with container technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, rkt, LXC, flannel, calico, canal, OpenVSwitch, etc)

• 2+ years of experience with PaaS solutions (e.g., OpenShift, Cloud Foundry, Heroku, Deis, Flynn)

• 5+ years of experience with tools to support version control, build automation and automated testing (e.g., Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Selenium)

• 2+ years of experience developing in one or more programming languages on a daily basis (e.g., Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Go)

• Experience in modern automation tools and principles (e.g., Ansible)

• Experience in Linux system administration in virtual machine environments

• Experience developing and operating distributed applications in the cloud or cloud-emulating environments with features such as load balancing, autoscaling, rolling upgrades

• Experience working with a remote distributed team, and working autonomously to complete tasks without close supervision

• Experience working with non-infrastructure/operations developers, including advising them on how applications can be modified to make them easier to deploy, operate and monitor

• Experience writing documentation, runbacks, etc., for operations and infrastructure

• Experience using JIRA and Agile development methodology

• Highly motivated and self-directed

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU TO APPLY

• Current resume

• Hourly rate salary expectations

Raising the Floor - US Inc, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable US federal and state laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. Raising the Floor - US is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed, marital status, political affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the First Amendment, in all aspects of employment.