Friday, June 29, 2012

Job opening - Manager, Engineering Operations (eHow.com) at Demand Media (Santa Monica, CA)

Please use this link to apply to this posting: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?aj=otsqWfw1&s=StackOverflow



Demand Media (NYSE:DMD) informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. Through a portfolio of vertical web properties reaching more than 100 million monthly visitors, a global network of digital partners, and a breakthrough content studio, Demand Media publishes what the world wants to know and share. Join the company that is shaping the future of media – how it’s created, consumed and shared!



We work in a fun, collaborative environment that is as diverse, adventurous and open-minded as the content we create for the world. We encourage all of our employees to learn and grow personally and professionally so they can assume greater responsibilities and advance their careers.



We’re looking for ambitious, driven, self-starters who want to be on the leading edge of innovation in onl! ine media and technology. This position is located in Santa Monica, CA.



Position Overview:



The eHow stack is built using PHP, Python, MongoDB and the latest HTML5 technologies.  It is hosted in multiple datacenters and tightly integrated with CDN's to ensure 99.99% uptime.  eHow.com serves millions of page views per day and our servers process thousands of requests per second. Our team of 25+ developers ship code when ready and utilize agile development methodologies.  Code is always changing and while we rely heavily on engineers to test their own code we utilize a combination of black box testing and heavy automation to minimize negative impact to the business.



We are looking for an engineering leader to oversee our Engineering Operations team and practices.



Responsibilities:


Manage – A team of engineers responsible for dev/ops, day-to-day tickets and ad hoc business r! equests.


Release - Support an agile/fluid release ! process with as many as 5 pushes per day


Engineering - Interface with engineering teams to understand code changes, assess risk and ensure best practices for operational tasks.


Be comfortable with writing code, troubleshooting technical issues and recommending architectural changes in the code base.


Operations - Provide adequate response to error alerts, ensure proper monitoring implementation and provide solutions to ensure 100% site up time. 


 Requirements:


3+ years of experience managing software engineers and / or dev/ops engineers.


Pro-active problem solver, seeking out risk/conflicts/scheduling issues before they cause launch delays


A strong sense of leadership, ownership, urgency, and drive


Demonstrated experience working with web applications - Python, PHP (kohana, beanstalk)


Must be hands on with code to troubleshoot, reverse engineer and code revie! w fixes/bugs


Experience working with mongoDB (NOSQL) and SQL databases


Experience with caching solutions – memcacheD, Redis


Excellent written communication and verbal agility are necessary for cross-team collaboration


Experience with Linux / UNIX system admin operations and working knowledge of puppet, git, jira.


Perform on-call duties for emergency operations of servers as they relate to internal application


Pluses:


Previous experience participating in the dev/ops model


Strong operational and build management experience




Please send a sample of the most recent coding project you've been hands on preferably using Php or python with a sql/no-sql backend element to it.



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