DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer
Schoology - New York, NY
Work directly with the CTO and dev teams to manage the entire stack and to support new features and services at scale

Keep current with new database technologies, and analyze possible use within our architecture

Assist with refining and improving the current database architectures for performance and scalability

Manage benchmarking and performance tuning (e.g. index tuning, query optimazation, etc)

Be responsibile for overall site performance and stability, analyzing all aspects of the stack - from the database to the app layer

Manage all pieces of our primary stack (nginx, apache, php, memcache, redis, mysql)

Scale infrastructure to meet demand

Develop custom tools and write scripts to automate processes as necessary

Be responsbile for infrastructure monitoring

Document system design and procedures

Maintain and administer computing environments including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, integrations and all configurations.

Skills & Requirements

Experience:
BA/BS Computer Science or equivalent experience

2-5 years MySQL database administration experience (sharding, replication, high-availability)

2-5 years and/or Mastery of Linux/Unix

Strong knowledge of a modern programming language (e.g. PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C++)

Solid understanding of fundamental technologies, such as TCP/IP and HTTP

Experience with web server configuration, monitoring, trending, network design, high availability

Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery

Skills:
Scripting and coding (bash, python, c)

Building and managing high volume systems is a plus

Strong verbal and communication skills

Knowledge of replication, tuning, and monitoring

Strong experience with mysql is a huge plus (sharding, replication, HA)

joelonsoftware - 12 months ago - save job - block
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