Essential Qualifications:

• Masterful knowledge of bash and shell scripting.
• Expert knowledge of a scripted provisioning tool like Ansible, Chef or Puppet. We use Ansible.
• Experience working with engineers to design resilient, fault-tolerant applications.
• Deep understanding of best practices around continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Experience supporting distributed systems.
• Working knowledge of toolsets to assist in large-scale data operations, such as AWS Redshift, Apache Spark, Hadoop, etc.
• Understanding and experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases. We use PostgreSQL, MySQL and DynamoDB.
• Working understanding of containerization (Docker) and container orchestration.
• An interest in working with new technologies.

What You'll be Doing:

• Working with the rest of the engineering team to design complete solutions that seamlessly integrate infrastructure and application.
• Developing monitoring, logging, and reporting toolsets.
• Working to continuously improve the delivery and infrastructure to support our microservice-oriented suite of applications.
• Helping us complete a full migration to Docker.
• Using tools including AWS, Docker, Vagrant, Terraform and Jenkins to deploy to dynamic, scalable environments.
• Participating in our engineering culture, with an emphasis on contributing ideas, thoughts, and constructive feedback regarding the work of others on our team.
• Working with the engineering team to continually define and refine our technical practices and toolsets.
• Collaborating with designers, front-end developers, and product stakeholders to deliver technical solutions to complex problems.
• Assisting with interviewing, onboarding, training and mentoring engineers as they join the team.
• Participating in code reviews, both of your code and of others.

Education and Experience:

• At least two years of hands on software engineering in a production environment.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or another analytical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ Years of Experience with Linux system administration.
• 2+ Years of Experience working with a cloud-based infrastructure service like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Compute. We use AWS.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skill.
• 2+ Years of Experience with a high level programming language like Java, Python and/or PHP. Python preferred.

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401K with match
• Ventra pre-tax transit benefits
• Near public transit - across the street from Clybourn Metra stop!
• Kitchen stocked with snacks & great coffee
• Cold brew coffee & craft beer on tap
• Flexible vacation/Work from home policies
• Casual dress code
• Group outings
• Competitive salary based on level of experience