• Intellum is the creator and leader of the customer education market. We are privately-owned, profitable, and powered by a globally distributed team who truly cares about delivering remarkable learning experiences.
• Our Engineering team currently consists of about 20 people and operates from the Americas, Europe and Oceania. Remote has been the bedrock of our culture for over a decade.
• At Intellum, you will be joining a very successful organization and help the largest and fastest-moving brands in the world successfully educate their customers, partners, and employees.

What we offer:

• Remote Working with a flexible schedule, supported by a strong culture of asynchronous communication.
• Working together with a team of smart, interesting people with the lightest, most supportive structure possible to be successful.
• Varied, interesting technical challenges for talented engineers to tackle and large chunks of uninterrupted time to focus on getting things done.
• An opportunity to play a significant role in our mission to improve the lives of others through educational technologies.

What we're looking for:

• We're looking for an engineer with experience in scaling services, troubleshooting and managing incidents with diverse systems, that will help us grow the Intellum platform.
• We're looking for a detail-oriented and reliable individual, someone the team can trust and that can be responsible for their tasks to completion.
• Required time zone between PST and UTC+2.

Our stack:

• Applications are written in ruby on rails and node, using postgresql and mongodb for storage, redis, memcached, elasticsearch, websockets, etc
• CI/CD stack based on Spinnaker, Jenkins, GIthub actions running on Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as code with terraform + ansible
• Multiple cloud providers AWS + Google Cloud

You'll be a good fit if you:

• Can work independently and asynchronously.
• Can assume responsibility for a task from start to finish.
• Are comfortable taking decisions within your areas of responsibility.
• Proactively communicate with other team members to seek help and support.
• Have managed infrastructure in one or more Cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud)
• Are familiar with Infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, cloudformation)
• Have experience using configuration management tools like Ansible or chef, etc
• Have managed large fleets of linux servers
• Feel comfortable automating tasks and writing scripts (bash, ruby, python)

Extra bonus for:

• Experience with ruby on rails or node js applications
• Experience tuning/scaling relational databases (Postgresql, mysql)
• Experience improving monitoring and reliability of systems

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure
• Automate processes and workflows to reduce the workload and ship products faster
• Monitor virtual infrastructure and be part of a 24x7 on-call rotation to respond to alerts
• Work with software engineers to ensure application updates fit with the infrastructure and modify it as needed
• Ensure backups are in place so we're able to recover from disasters.
• Create and manage technical infrastructure documentation and training documents

Physical Requirements/Work Environment:

• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, etc.
• Extended time viewing a computer monitor
• Sitting or standing for extended periods of time
• Occasional irregular work hours