Operations Engineer

Beyond dots on a map. We create software to bring together the best aspects of geography, the web, and mobile technology for stronger communities.

Azavea is a civic technology firm that uses geospatial data to build software and data analytics for the web. We’re excited about what we do, we’re growing, and we hope you will join us. Azavea is based in Philadelphia, and we are looking to grow our Operations team to support new cloud computing operations capacity. Azavea both builds custom web apps and SaaS in several civic domains, including: climate change, urban ecosystem management, public safety, watersheds, and elections.

- Work with our software teams and the Director of Operations to build out and maintain our IT infrastructure, particularly as it relates to Amazon Web Services. - Engage in multidisciplinary work that applies an agile process to system architecture, software development, testing and deployment. - Optimize database, server and client performance to create applications with both functional and responsive user experiences. - Contribute to both a growing company and to the open source communities that support our work.

- Know your way around Linux systems. - Experience architecting solutions based on Amazon Web Services, Rackspace or Google Compute Engine. - Demonstrate experience with automated deployment, continuous integration, and source control. - Know how to build and support scalable web applications in a variety of languages (Python, Scala, Go). - Demonstrate familiarity with networking and security concepts. - Be interested in working with a small, collaborative team on meaningful projects. - Get excited about a diversity of both projects and technologies. **You get extra points for:** - Demonstrating your open source or other community service contributions - Experience with core web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) and contemporary frameworks like jQuery, Angular, Backbone, and Bootstrap. - A good understanding of MVC architecture and RESTful design patterns - Experience with configuration management tooling (Chef, Ansible, Puppet) and application containerization techniques. - Familiarity with web and AWS security best practices.