Lead DevOps Engineer

Company: Glorify
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: November 26, 2022

Job Description:

Glorify is a fast-growing business on a mission to become the world's largest digital platform for the 2.5 billion Christians worldwide.Our app utilizes bite-size readings, meditations, music, and gamification techniques to enable people to spend daily time with God. We offer guided worship routines, curated content, and a world-class user experience.Having successfully launched in key Christian markets in the UK, US and Latin America (including Brazil), We have achieved over 6 million downloads and millions of monthly active users.As well as reaching individuals, our business model also includes a B2B offering - allowing us to establish valuable relationships with churches, organizations, and businesses with the offer of multi-user accounts.Having announced successful Series A and Series B funding rounds, we are proud to be supported by Tier 1 Venture Capitalists enabling us to maintain our growth objectives and ambitious targets. We are now expanding our team globally and are on a journey to recruit the very best talent from a diverse range of backgrounds, all over the world.** We emphasize that you don't need to be a Christian to work here. You do however need to share our passion in striving for excellence in everything we do. Our main focus is on growing a fantastic team who put the needs of our users first.The Role

• This role will be primarily responsible for the technical standards, architecture, management, and reliability of our cloud infrastructure, including deployment, automation, and configuration management
• This is a hands-on role, reporting initially to the CTO.
• Leadership is vitally important to this role. A good technical leader will be able to "lead from the front" - demonstrating the behaviors and practices that lead to excellence in engineering craft while fostering an open, collaborative engineering culture.
• Collaboration with, and mentorship of, other cross-functional developers is a significant component of this role. Desire to manage a team (i.e., have people report to you) is a plus but is not required.
• We are looking for smart people who get things done - strong critical thinkers who are execution-oriented and understand that "shipping is a feature".
• We value team players who are focused on finding the best answer rather than winning arguments. We have a strict "no jerks allowed" policy.
• Strong understanding of microservice architectures and data stores (RDS, MongoDB, Dynamo, S3)
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration systems a plus (docker, k8s, EKS)
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• Strong customer focus and empathy - passionate about providing value for internal and external customers
• Good communication skills - the ability to articulate ideas (and the reasoning behind them) clearly
• Experience providing technical leadership in a team environment
• A passion for mentoring others
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of professional hands-on experience working in large, complex systems environments
  • Ability to code in one or more languages (Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, etc.)
  • Solid Unix/Linux expertise (including shell scripting)
  • Strong understanding of networking concepts
  • Deep experience in the AWS ecosystem including but not limited to VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, EBS, Cloudwatch, Lambda, Route53, WAF
  • Hands on experience with Terraform
  • Familiarity and strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools such as Git, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc. Responsibilities
    • Collaborate with the CTO and other cross-functional development leadership to drive innovation and improvement to our systems and processes
    • Design, build, manage, and support core AWS infrastructure that enables scaling Glorify to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users
    • Champion best practices for managing infrastructure at scale such as IaC and CaC.
    • Improve operational processes (deployments, releases, upgrades) through tooling and automation (CI/CD) to help maximize development productivity and minimize overhead for developers
    • Design and implement observability and alerting tooling to measure and improve the reliability, latency, availability, and scalability of Glorify's systems
    • Champion high availability for critical systems and systematically root out single points of failure
    • Improve team practices through code reviews and technical design sessions
    • Help define and monitor SLAs and SLOs
    • With the CTO, manage the on-call rotation and incident response processes. Lead incident response for production incidents
    • Perform blameless post-mortems as a mechanism to improve system resiliency in response to incidents. Foster a culture of continuous improvement.
    • Work in a collaborative agile development environment
      • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
      • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
      • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
      • Short Term & Long Term Disability
      • Work From Home

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