DevOps Engineer
Sprout Social’s software is used by more than 16,000 brands around the world. Companies like Adobe, Pivotal Labs, Google, Marvel, and Evernote rely on Sprout to create stronger relationships with their customers through social media. We’re looking for smart, creative, and driven people to join our DevOps team. If you have a passion for uptime and automation, we’d love to talk with you.
Responsibilities
- Work on a high-impact, small-team with tight timeframes
- Carry out monitoring and performance analysis using Nagios, New Relic, and statsd
- Automate administrative tasks with Python or Perl
- Build and deploy new services using Chef
- Monitor and tune production MySQL servers
- Monitor and tune production Cassandra clusters
Desired Skills and Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of experience with system administration
- Strong grasp of configuration management tools like Chef (or Puppet), and experience working in a DevOps culture
- Proficiency in Python or Ruby
- Experience running mission-critical Linux servers in cloud environments
- Background in running a large-scale, distributed web application (load balancing, multi-tier, Apache, php, python, etc.)
- Great at working in a team
- Smart, a very quick learner, and is able to get things done
- Very clear written and verbal communicator
About Sprout Social
Sprout Social powers open communication between individuals, brands and communities through elegant, sophisticated software. We are relentless about solving hard problems for our customers and committed to both customer and team success.
Team Sprout is a group of very talented, smart and passionate people with broad interests and backgrounds. We’re proud to regularly be recognized for software, product and company culture achievements. Our team’s shared belief in Sprout’s mission promotes a culture of openness, empowerment and fun. We have built a benefits program to match the strength of our team. This program includes:
- Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families, including generous company contributions
- Progressive benefit programs, like our parental leave program and free Divvy bike memberships
- High-quality and well-maintained equipment your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
- Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop
- Solid programs in some of the staples: transportation, disability and life insurance
- Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and financial well-being of our team
- Breakfast and lunch options onsite, and more healthy snack options and beverages than you can imagine
- Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
Sprout Social is unable to provide H1B sponsorship.