The Exchange Group are hiring a systems administrator / developer to help us secure, scale, and strengthen our existing Ruby on Rails infrastructure.
The Exchange Group are best known for bikeexchange.com.au, the popular online bike & accessories marketplace which reached one million unique visitors per month in July last year. We've recently expanded: check out tinitrader.com.au, renoexchange.com.au and bikeexchange.co.nz. Right now The Exchange Group employs approximately 40 people, of which 6 are in the combined design/development team. Our office is located in South Melbourne near great food, coffee and public transport.
We're looking for somebody who has:
- experience administering Linux servers on both 'bare metal' and in the cloud
- experience with configuration management and automated provisioning (eg. Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
- experience with SaaS and IaaS technologies (eg. NewRelic, Scout.app, pingdom)
- basic programming ability in at least one loosely typed language (eg. Perl, Python, Ruby)
- a willingness to skill up in Ruby on Rails and work partly as an operator, partly as a developer
Our current setup is simple and automated. We use a combination of leased 'bare metal' hardware for our production and test systems and AWS for our disaster recovery and backup systems. Our deployments are automated via Ruby and our system configuration is controlled with chef. We use Ubuntu 12.04, Ruby 1.9.3 and Ruby on Rails 3.2.13.
Immediately, we're looking for somebody to help us with the following:
- security review of our application, systems and processes
- plan and enact disaster recovery drills
- monitor and correct errors in overnight processes
- review our current instrumentation, dashboards and other monitoring
Applications should be submitted via email to [email protected] and include "Systems Job Application" in the subject. Please write a few words about your experience with the items under "Immediately", including what approaches you'd take with them at a new role. This is an on-site and permanent role. Applicants wishing to work part time will also be considered.
Recruiter applications are welcome if you have a suitable candidate in mind.