Dev Ops Systems Engineer at Bazaarvoice

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Company
Bazaarvoice
Location
Austin, TX
Further details
http://www.ventureloop.com/firstroundcap/jobapply.php?jobid=90989
Added on
03/01/2012
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About the Company:

Word of mouth marketing

Description:

About Bazaarvoice:

Bazaarvoice is a SaaS company that brings the power of social commerce to the world's best brands. Social commerce happens when companies connect customers to one another in ways which drive measurable results to their business. Bazaarvoice helps all types of businesses capture, display, share, and analyze customer conversations online. Our combination of technology and personalized services help brands build online communities who help drive measurable business goals. We make it easy for our clients to let their customers share opinions, knowledge, and experiences.

Bazaarvoice is an open, creative and collaborative culture, where passion and excellence rule. You have the opportunity to work within a world-class organization bringing cutting-edge interfaces and functionality to market on leading eCommerce sites. Great ideas can come from anywhere. We’re looking for imaginative people who want to be a part of the conversation and have an impact on the future of social commerce.

Who We Want:

Bazaarvoice serves traffic on some of the biggest websites on the internet. Every day our content is served to tens of millions of people making tens of thousands of requests per second, resulting in tens of thousands of gigabytes of traffic. Our request logs alone add up to almost 1TB daily. If the thought of doubling these numbers excites you, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop internal tools and processes to maintain stability and performance of our infrastructure

  • Work with Development teams to build applications in an Operationally sustainable way

  • Design cross-datacenter, world-wide systems with a high availability mindset

  • Research, analyze and propose new technology solutions for Bazaarvoice's infrastructure

  • Make things go faster

Skills and Experience Necessary for the Role:

  • Bachelor's degree in CS, EE or MIS; or equivalent experience

  • 5+ years experience with LAMP development/administration

  • Hands-on scripting with shell & Python/Ruby/Perl

  • Thorough understanding of TCP/IP networking & DNS

  • Excellent project management, communication, prioritization and analytical skills

  • Strong customer service mindset

Technologies:

  • Linux

  • Tomcat

  • Solr/Lucene

  • MySQL

  • Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, VPC)

Bonus experience:

  • Puppet/Chef

  • Hadoop/BI/Big Data

  • Cassandra/Riak

  • OpenStack/Eucalyptus

  • Open source contributions

To apply:

Visit our application page.

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