Are you passionate about website uptime and performance? Are you a Ruby on Rails guru? If so, we may have a position that matches your skills and experience! We are looking for a SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) to maintain a Ruby on Rails infrastructure on AWS that hosts several web applications.  Also, this SRE will be responsible to handle issues and bug fixing in those applications.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure all servers are updated with the latest security and software patches.
• Monitor automated backup systems to ensure successful daily backup are saved on S3.
• Update the ruby / rails / gem versions based on new releases and vulnerability patches.
• Triage and respond to error conditions and exceptions, as reported by the web apps.
• Be on-call for urgent site issues that need immediate attention.

Requirements:

• 3+ years experience in System Administration in a RoR environment.
• Expert managing servers in AWS, including EC2, S3, and Cloudfront.
• Experience with error monitoring tools such as Rollbar, Sentry, or Airbrake.
• Working knowledge of deploying apps via docker.
• Focused on automation with experience in building and maintaining self-service tools.
• Strong security focus including knowledge of network, operating system and application level practices
• Familiarity with software development and code review practices
• Self-driven and able to troubleshoot

Highly Desired:

• Development skills (Ruby on Rails) with experience in writing & debugging code.
• Understanding and experience with the administration of infrastructure services such as Apache/ Nginx, HAProxy, PostgreSQL/MySQL etc.
• Proficient with performance monitoring using tools such as New Relic or AppDynamics
• Experience with Dokku Paas is a plus!
• Experience with Interactive Ruby Shell REPL