Dev Ops Engineer

BuySellAds helps connect great brands with hard-to-reach audiences. You’ve probably seen our ad solutions on a number of creative sites such as Dribbble, Bootstrap, CodePen, Coding Horror, and many more.

We also work on our own internal projects and that’s where you come in. We’re looking for someone to help manage and grow our suite of design and development web properties on our Owned & Operated team. Working together as a small, tactical unit, we’ll either be maintaining and improving existing sites, or transitioning recently acquired properties to fresh buildouts when it makes sense. We’re looking for a dedicated DevOps Engineer to be our in-house expert and help us maintain, manage and grow all of our properties.

We are a fully distributed/remote team and stay connected through Slack. We largely work around an EST schedule but are flexible.

Ideally, we’re looking for someone who is:

• A natural problem solver: integrations and migrations can be messy work, requiring equal measures creativity and patience.
• A self-starter: remote teams carry lots of autonomy. There’s no micromanaging here. This article really resonates with us!
• A great communicator: we’re big on teaching, learning, debating, and explaining, and these things require clear, deliberate communication.
• Experiencedworking across our infrastructure stack
  • AWS (EB, ElastiCache, EC2, RDS, ELB, S3, CloudWatch)
  • DigitalOcean
  • CloudFlare
• Comfortableor familiar with the rest of our tech stack
  • PHP/Laravel
  • JavaScript, Express.js, Node.js, Vue.js
  • Relational databases
  • Nginx
  • Docker

General responsibilities include:

• Become the in-house expert for all DevOps questions within BuySellAds
• Monitor server security, uptime, and resource usage across multiple projects
• Create and maintain automated backup strategies
• Routine maintenance for modern releases of code, databases, NPM dependencies, and other general upkeep
• Build dev workflows for CI/CD and Staging environments
• Migrate new projects in various states
• Get hands dirty in code and see projects through from start to finish