DevOps Engineer, Security

This position is for an experienced DevOps engineer to own Security efforts for our entire application stack and join our 8 person DevOps team. We’re looking for someone with a strong track record in building infrastructure, maintaining high level of uptime and optimal security. You will be supporting and building products alongside our 50+ person engineering team used by hundreds of thousands of people.
How you’ll make an impact:
  • Develop, schedule, and execute automated security audits on infrastructure using industry standard security frameworks and tooling.
  • Write penetration tests for applications and services.
  • Periodically audit and rotate access credentials.
  • Document current and future security procedures and policies in the wiki.
  • Lead security/policy related audits such as SOC2 Type II (annual renewal).
  • Work with sales and client services teams to answer infrastructure related security questions and concerns that clients inquire about.
  • Remediate and write post-mortem reports on security-related issues.
  • Active involvement in design, implementation, and maintenance of the development, staging, and production infrastructure security.
  • Work on automating tasks using Jenkins.
  • Troubleshoot system issues (such as high-load, memory, CPU usage, etc.) and come up with temporary/long-term solutions based on the root cause.
  • Work with developers to deploy applications ready for production (Terraform, Consul, Vault, Upstart, NGINX, Sensu). We believe in infrastructure as code and follow it.
  • Write Chef cookbooks (using “Berkshelf Way”) to automate configuration management.
  • Participate in a 1-week on 7-week off, 24/7 on-call rotation.
  • Hands-on maintenance on our Ruby on Rails and Go (Golang) applications.
  • Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack: hardware, software, and network.
What we’re looking for:
  • Minimum of 5 years of Linux/UNIX systems engineer & administrator experience.
  • Minimum of 5 years of relevant web application security experience
  • Extensive AWS experience
  • Experience writing application security penetration tests with an open source framework.
  • Automation experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, or Puppet.
  • Intermediate to advanced experience administering and securing an RDB (MySQL or Postgres a plus)
  • Proficient in bash shell scripting (sed + awk) and one of Ruby or Python.
  • Experience automating application deployments with Capistrano or Jenkins.
  • Ability to work in a proactive manner and manage your own queue.
  • Experience with Hashicorp tools, Neo4j, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana is a big plus.

Senior DevOps/System Admin Engineer

Have you built and managed large cloud server deployments that have seen real production usage? Are you an expert at automation tools like Chef, Consul, Terraform, and Kubernetes? Does having an amazing logging system like Splunk or ELK really get you excited? If so, we’d like you to learn about Action Verb.
We’re looking to hire a senior engineer for our Infrastructure team, which is responsible for keeping our network of 100 cloud servers across 8 AWS regions and their associated services running like a well-oiled machine.
You’ll be working with our existing deployments of Chef, Ansible, Consul, Terraform, ELK, Grafana, Statsd, Asterisk, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, Zeromq, Puma, Jenkins, and many other exciting open source systems. But you’ll also be free to deploy anything else if it gets the job done!
About our Network
  • ~100 servers, mostly hosted on AWS
  • 8 AWS regions, as well as multiple colocated hosting providers
  • Hundreds of public IP addresses
  • 500+ HTTPS requests per second
  • 25+ FTP/SFTP/FTPS logins per second
  • 100+ file transfers per second
  • 10,000+ log entries per second
  • 150,000+ metrics
  • 99.9% uptime record

For Roles on Our Infrastructure Team, We Want To See This Track Record of Results:

  • Experience managing large cloud server deployments that have seen real production usage.
  • Experience building distributed, failure-resistant architecture, including disaster recovery, backups, failover, etc.
  • Experience with the advanced features of public cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure (we use AWS).
  • Significant experience working with GNU/Linux servers, including a complete understanding of the command line, /proc, services, etc.
  • Comprehensive understanding of networking concepts, including layers, firewalls, DNS, VPN, etc.
  • Proficiency with configuration management tools, such as Chef or Puppet, and fluency with at least one major scripting language.
  • Familarity with large scale monitoring and analysis systems, such as ELK or Splunk (we use ELK).
  • Complete understanding of how to build secure infrastructure and an awareness of common server security vulnerabilities.
  • History managing a large database at scale (we use MySQL).
Please stop reading now if these bullets do not describe your experience. We do not make inexperienced hires. But if they do describe your experience, please read on!
Salary and Benefits
Action Verb offers competitive salaries combined with unparalleled flexibility and other benefits to secure top talent.
This position pays at least $110,000-130,000 per year, based on experience and track record, plus a great benefits package, and a $2,500 signing bonus to purchase a new computer, desk, or anything else that would help build or refresh your home office.
After your first year with Action Verb, we’ll update your salary annually based on your performance, as reviewed by your peers. Over the course of your career at Action Verb, your salary can grow by 2-3x if you are one of our highest performers.
We fully pay base plan health insurance premiums (exact plan details depend on your state of residence), and we’ll pick up the tab for 75% of your spouse or family if they wish to join your chosen plan. We want your family to be healthy.
You’ll take off 11 company-wide holidays per year as well as 20 days of PTO for vacations. Go have fun. Don’t work all the time.
Plus, you can join Action Verb Risk Free because of our $7,500 Quitting Bonus Within Your First 90 Days.

Solr SME / DevOps, for Federal Contract – immediate start date

Solr SME / DevOps – Federal Contract – Immediate start date – remote position
We are a development firm based in Birmingham, AL since 2005 and we have an immediate need for a Solr SME. This is for a Federal contract which should 1.5-3 years. The position will require 20-25 hours per week for 1-3 months and then will become full time after that. This contract is to maintain all the backend databases to include Solr.  The SME would be responsible for items like supporting SOLR cloud configurations, maintain configurations changes, some performance tuning, and working with the other staff in a DevOps culture to ensure they can properly integrate with Solr.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in Architecting, Designing and developing search systems at an enterprise scale.
  • Possess good experience in working with globally distributed development teams
  • SME across a wide range of systems at the enterprise architecture level
  • Experience in implementing modern IT architecture using cloud, micro-services, API management based technologies
  • Performs well in first-time situations, quickly acquiring and utilizing new knowledge and skills
  • Serve as a technical expert for Solr and related search technologies
  • Linux expertise
  • Ability to design table structures and write stored procedures
  • Experience working on agile teams
  • BS degree, preferably in a technical field, or other education (i.e. technical certifications). MS degree preferred. Equivalent work experience may be considered.
  • able to communicate well, show initiative and be able to work independently.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States (Required).
Start date: ASAP
Type: 1099 contract, part-time to start, full-time within 1-3 months.
Compensation: $76.50/hr (~$160,000/yr) paid every other Friday – direct deposit
Remote work: Yes
Contract length: 1.5-3 Years