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At Zappallas, our Operations team is responsible for designing, operating and maintaining the infrastructure that supports our network of sites: Tarot.com, DailyHoroscope.com, Numerology.com and Twittascope.com - across mobile, tablet, and desktop platforms. Combining art and technology, we strive to ensure our world-wide site visitors always have a great experience. Our job as Engineers is challenging and exciting: We own the entire tech stack responsible for our success.
We collaborate closely with our Engineering and product management teams, and our customer feedback is immediate, which means we can rapidly iterate and deploy. If you enjoy being part of a dynamic in office team that is building and enhancing full stack applications, leveraging the newest technologies to delight users, and executing like entrepreneurs, then you've found the right place.
Responsibilities
- Day-to-day maintenance tasks from software updates, to replacing failed hardware, to investigating alerts, to optimizing and automating software/hardware configurations.
- Participate in architecture and planning discussions, as we modernize and scale our platform.
- Provide technical guidance or support for the development or troubleshooting of systems.
- Monitor system daily operations to detect potential problem and ensure high availability and minimize downtime.
- Provide analysis, development, and operation of complete computer systems. Perform ongoing hardware/software maintenance operations, including installing or upgrading hardware or software.
- Configure servers to meet functional specifications.
- Maintain the ability to adapt quickly to many functional environments, meet deadlines, work independently, and as a team member.
- Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills.
- On call rotation
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 3-5+ years experience in Linux-based Infrastructure Engineering (Debian/CentOS), Software Engineering, Systems Administration, SRE, or similar roles
- Knowledge of at least three of the following skill-sets within IT Operations: Linux, Networking, Scripting and Automation, Application troubleshooting
- Working knowledge of a wide range of technologies - including virtualized environment (VMware), configuration management tools (Chef), web deliverability (Apache, Nginx, HAproxy, Memcached), database infrastructure (Postres, Mysql, Redis)
- Experience with monitoring and logging solutions (Nagios, Munin, Syslog, Logstash, ELK)
- Love for troubleshooting complex systems issues in real-time.
- Understanding of security best practices
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
- System monitoring services, such as Nagios and Prometheus
- Familiar with Terraform for developing, changing and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently.
- Application lifecycle management
- Experience in automation with scripting or programming languages such as Bash, Python, Java, and JavaScript.
- Experience running container infrastructure
Our Technology Stacks
- Frontend: Preact, Redux, Redux-Saga, Sass, Twig, PHP
- Backend: Python, Django REST Framework, RabbitMQ
- Data: Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Build: Webpack, ES6/Babel
- Test: PHPUnit, PyUnit, Selenium, SauceLabs
- Integrate: Docker, Saltstack, Debian, GitLab CI
- Process: Trello (Iterative/Kanban), GitLab Merge Requests, Slack
Company Description
Zappallas USA is a network of online and mobile properties that center around Tarot, horoscopes, Astrology and Numerology. Our mission is to deliver practical insight every day. Our users are regular people, moving through life using the perspective, tools, and insightful wisdom of ancient divination systems to contextualize current, everyday issues. From something as simple as "Will today be a good day?" to advice on starting a new job, ending a bad relationship, or money concerns, we empower our users to use divination to move through life with hope, strength and meaning.
True to our Pacific Northwest roots, we stay on the cutting edge of trends, technology and quality of life. Our talented team enjoys working together, with a focus on autonomy and respect from day one and an environment that is collaborative, flexible and values tenacity. We are committed to continuous, iterative improvement of our tools, processes and products.
