**The following skills and experience are preferred and will be deeply leveraged:**
* Experience with continuous integration and deployment technologies such as: Jenkins CI, and Artifactory
* Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as: Chef, Puppet, and Ansible
Experience with testing frameworks: ServerSpec, ChefSpec, Selenium, jUnit, Mocha, etc…
* Experience building applications leveraging MongoDB, Angular.js, Express, and Node.jsExperience with infrastructure automation, infrastructure as code, automated application deployment, monitoring/telemetry, logging, and reporting/dashboarding
* Experience in building high-performance infrastructures that are scalable and resilient
* Ability create clear and detailed technical diagrams and documentation
* Experience with Linux and Windows systems administration
* Experience with cloud-based infrastructure as a service platforms: AWS, Google Compute Engine, Azure, Rackspace, OpenStack, etc…
* Experience with programming and scripting languages: Ruby, Python, Perl, bash, ksh
* Experience with development using Github
* Experience with test-driven development frameworks for infrastructure code
* Experience with orchestration template technologies such as: OpenStack Heat, AWS Cloud Formation, Google Cloud Deployment Manager, and Hashicorp Terraform
* Experience with open-source telemetry solutions such as: Sensu, Graphite, Influxdb,
* Experience with open-source logging and reporting solutions such as: Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana/Grafana
**Requirements:**
* BA/BS or equivalent experience
* 5-7 years total work experience
* Passion for new and evolving technologies and willing to push their application throughout the company
* Ability to communicate easily with both engineers and management
* Personal or professional experience contributing to open source projects
* Highly productive coder; self-starter and self-motivated
* Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
* Continuous learner who stays current with new and evolving technologies
* Courage to learn, experiment, and even fail… provided you get back up again!