Open Position: Site Reliability Engineer

Ministry of Programming builds startup software companies from the first line of code. We are a supercharged team of just over 40 creative people and we are looking forward to bring a new one in to help us on our journey. Our mission is to deliver quality software efficiently, and to build amazing applications.

We are building next generation healthcare web and mobile applications that have a real impact on people's lives, and we are looking to expand our team. You will have large responsibilities from day one. What you do will have the actual impact on our users and MOP as a company. Your opinions and ideas will matter.

Responsibilities

Proactivity in improving the whole lifecycle of services — from design, deployment, operation and refinement

Scale systems using automation, improve by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity

Automatate the shit out of infrastructure and deployment procedures

Push DevOps principles everywhere you can

Skills and Qualifications

Strong background in Linux/Unix administration

Experience with configuration management tools, Saltstack/Puppet preferred

Infrastructure provisioning tools like Terraform aren't some unknown teritory

Using cloud services. AWS is a must, Google Cloud or Azure is a big +

Understanding code and scripting languages. Knowing Python, Ruby and bash would get you the job

You can't sleep knowing services you manage aren't fully automated

If the above isn't true, then you need to have ability to jump from bed at 3AM and login into production systems without crashing anything

Ever heard of Kubernetes? Jenkins? CI/CD? Chaos Monkey? Good, this is what you'll be doing

Summary

You will help company projects evolve and move faster than "waterfall"

You will not accept half-assed solutions in production

You will blend in with developers and business people

You will work with cutting edge tech in a startup environment