Work at Blue Triangle

This individual serves as the technical contact throughout the Blue Triangle sales process. This position is based in Richmond, Virginia and requires the applicant to work from the Mechanicsville, VA location where the development team is located.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Personable
• Good communication skills
• Team player
• Able to manage multiple clients but also manage tasks individually
• Handle working in a dynamic fast-paced environment
• Analytical skills
• Excel
• PowerPoint

Nice to Have:

• Understanding of browser performance timings
• Knowledge of web analytics industry
• Background in statistics
• JavaScript
• 1+ year experience in customer facing environment

Blue Triangle has an immediate need for a DevOps Engineer with 5+ years production experience in a 24×7 environment. Fulltime position is in Richmond, VA; an in-person interview is required.

Responsibilities include configuration, monitoring, and administration of various mission-critical systems which support Blue Triangle’s data ingestion and analytics platform.  This position will have a significant impact in building our growing infrastructure while maintaining service stability.

Job Duties will include:

• Maintain health of cloud-based production environments through monitoring and typical daily administration duties.
• Respond to performance issues identified by alerting and other reported incidents.
• Triage problems in an efficient manner.
• Automate operational activities and tasks.
• Participate in a 24×7 on-call rotation and perform occasional after hours support.
• Work with Developers to execute software releases, configuration updates, and other release requirements.
• Complete project work as assigned and contribute to the technical direction of various objectives, your ideas will be valued.

Experience and requirements include but are not limited to:

• Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, VPCs, Cloudwatch, etc)
• Google Cloud Platform (VM’s, load balancers, firewalls, Stackdriver, etc)
• Significant experience with Python, Perl, Bash scripting
• Hands on experience with production Docker/Kubernetes/Rancher in a multi-cloud environment
• Familiarity with monitoring requirements and building dashboards
• Configuration Management/Automation, Cloud server provisioning, CI/CD, Code Deployment, GitHub
• Familiar with best practices for security, reliability, and fault tolerance
• Familiar with SQL servers, clusters, concepts, and language
• Network/Service concepts, design, and architecture
• Clear communication of complex concepts and troubleshooting steps is required
• Experience working with high throughput and high uptime systems
• Knowledge of hardening Linux operation systems and closing security vulnerability on Internet facing servers
• Knowledge of CDN’s, DNS, web servers, and other supporting Internet services
• Experience with streaming data and pipeline/message-queue services is a big plus

Applicants should have solid problem-solving skills, work well with small teams, maintain a professional demeanor, have a willingness to contribute at all levels, have the ability to multitask, possess an excellent work ethic and an ability to communicate clearly and effectively.