Austin TX, DevOps Engineer
AcademicWorks helps students afford college with the best scholarship management application on the market. We've helped scholarship administrators across the country process millions of applications, and have helped students get matched to financial assistance they wouldn't have otherwised received.
We are a close-knit, pragmatic group. We have fun solving hard problems by tackling them as a team, relying on open communication, and a consistent willingness to pitch in. As a member of our team, you will be given ownership over key projects and entrusted to lead them through to completion. The contributions you make will have a real impact, and will be recognized by both our customers and other team members.
We are growing. Fast. Many of our current challenges revolve around automating the tools we use to continue to support our growth, both in number of customers and products that we offer. As we grow, we want to continue increasing our application's overall throughput and reliability. If helping solve these challenges sounds like what you want to be doing, then we want to talk to you.
You will be working on a modern technology stack and tasked with ensuring that we continue to use the best tools for the job. Some highlights of our current infrastructure are:
* Rails 3.2 with Ruby 1.9.3
* Hosted on Amazon Web Services
* Chef 0.10 is used to manage over 100 servers and 150 PostgreSQL 9.1 databases
* ElasticSearch evaluates tens of millions of data points
* There are certainly other exciting technologies we use and we'd love to talk with you about them.
If these types of problems and technologies interest you, please contact us at REDACTED_EMAIL . Experience in one or more of the technologies mentioned is preferred. Passion (and a basic understanding of Linux) is required.
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