Site Reliability Developer at Medic Mobile

We’re seeking a talented and dedicated Site Reliability Developer to join our distributed product team.

You

• Are comfortable in a UNIX-like environment, enjoy automation, script efficiently, and produce checklists and documentation for processes and systems.
• Have coursework or experience equivalent to an undergraduate computer science degree.
• Have knowledge of at least some of the following APIs: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, Elastic Compute Cluster (EC2), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
• Can use Docker Machine, Amazon ECS, or a higher-level orchestration tool to deploy a container-based application in test or production.
• Are comfortable with basic Linux system administration, monitoring, security best practices, networking, and logging.
• Are familiar with at least some of the core web technologies: HTTP, SSL/TLS, REST, JSON, HTML.
• Thrive working as part of a distributed team with a flexible schedule.
• Enjoy working remotely with opportunities to travel to project sites (e.g. India, Uganda, Senegal) or to work with teammates (e.g. San Francisco, Nepal, Kenya).
• Want to help build software that improves lives in a real and significant way.

Position Details

The Site Reliability Developer works closely with Medic Mobile's software development and product teams to assure high-quality deployments of mobile health software and hardware.

Cloud infrastructure development: 30%

• Work with the development and product teams to help guide the design of recommended compute, network, container, and storage resource layouts.
• Document resource layouts and network designs; produce checklists and automated processes to deploy new instances and containerized applications.

Proactive monitoring: 30%

• Proactively monitor performance and reliability of production Medic Mobile systems.
• Produce status pages consumable by non-technical users.
• Be available (subject to time zones of team members) to respond to, troubleshoot, remediate, and document expected or unexpected outages, incidents, or problems in production.

System image engineering and deployment support: 40%

• Work with the software development team to improve and optimize production system images – AMIs and Docker containers.
• Manage upgrades and upgrade processes on production instances.
• Automate deployments to increase testability and reliability.