Site Reliability Engineer at Tala (formerly InVenture)

Responsibilities

• You will help drive all application-level aspects of the company’s SaaS operations.
• You will build, deploy, analyze, troubleshoot and scale the service wherever and whenever.
• You will collaborate closely with Engineering and Data Scientists on all architectural decisions and stay current on nascent technologies to make influential recommendations.
• You will operate very large relational and NoSQL databases, queuing systems, pub-sub servers, and other core infrastructural components.

Qualifications

• Tinkerer– you love to try out new tools and technologies to further improve the platform.
• Technology Toolbox– you have all of the tools for development plus a few extras.
• Leader– you have the ability to keep pace with, and set pace for, your teammates. Able to learn and teach new technologies and solutions.
• Solutions Driven– experience thinking out loud to create the best solutions to complex, tricky problems, using the latest technical methodologies/processes.Global Thinker – you have the passion to deploy a service that is truly global and love the chance to solve complex problems that arise from this.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience in DevOps processes and tools (Ansible, Docker, Vagrant, Chef/Puppet, PagerDuty, NewRelic, Splunk).
• Expert knowledge in AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, ElasticCache, VPC, VPN).
• Proficiency in Cloud and Application Security, and Certification (ISO-27001, SOC 1, SOC 2).
• Degree in Computer Science and/or Math.
• Proficiency in Agile development process.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Highly motivated and self-disciplined.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals.
• Excellent ability to prioritize and communicate in a fast-paced environment.

We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we’re proud to have a diverse team with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We focus on hiring talented people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.