As a DevOps Engineer, you will be designing, building, testing, and operating the infrastructure that powers Narrative Science’s natural language generation software and the Narrative Science business as a whole.  This is a hands-on DevOps role with a balanced amount of software and infrastructure development.

The ideal candidate will have a solid, practical grasp of Linux and networking fundamentals, the ability to code when needed, and the desire to hire, grow and retain a team.  This will be a key role that will directly impact the upcoming versions of our platform.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and test automation, tooling and processes to enable Narrative Science to deploy, manage, and scale our applications in the cloud.
• Operate and deploy services from development to production.
• Own the provisioning al all Narrative Science infrastructure in the cloud.
• Be part of the team that designs and develops solutions to improve our ability to rapidly iterate and safely deploy a complex platform.
• Excitement about Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployments is a must.
• Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning and analysis, and performance analysis activities.
• Identify infrastructure requirements from across the organization and clients related to scaling our existing and future infrastructure to large volumes of data.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors in Computer Science or other STEM degree.
• Minimum 3 years relevant experience.
• A demonstrated capability for critical thinking and problem solving.
• Strong technical leadership and negotiation skills.
• The ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Solid programming skills and experience writing production quality code.
• A good working knowledge of Linux environments, cloud computing (particularly AWS) and networking.
• The continuing drive to learn, to innovate, and to excel in a startup atmosphere.

You will work with and learn:

• Various AWS services:  EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Lambda.
• Our software stack:  Python and/or bash and/or Node.js.
• Our database stack:  PostgreSQL and/or MongoDB.
• Our CI stack:  Ansible, Jenkins.
• Our OS of choice:  CentOS.

About Narrative Science:  
Narrative Science is the leader in advanced natural language generation (Advanced NLG) for the enterprise. Quill, its Advanced NLG platform, learns and writes like a person, automatically transforming data into Intelligent Narratives—insightful, conversational communications full of audience-relevant information that provide complete visibility into how analytic decisions are made.