Platform Developer (Ruby on Rails; Kubernetes)

Job Description:

We are looking for a Full-Stack Ruby on Rails developer who will focus on enhancing the features, reliability, and performance of our cutting-edge application deployment system with their knowledge of Ruby, Rails, Linux server environments, Docker, and microservice best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Writing code and building tools, mostly in Ruby but also in Bash and other languages, that support our entire development team.
• Constantly improving our development and production deployment processes.
• Ensuring up-time for core infrastructure services such as Docker container servers, databases, and continuous deployment tools in testing and production environments.
• Helping provide on-call coverage for nights and weekends to ensure 24 hour support for infrastructure issues and problems.
• Configuring and administering Kubernetes clusters.

Required skills:

• Intermediate to senior experience as a developer
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or another MVC framework.
• Experience collaborating closely with operations teams, network engineers, and business stakeholders.
• Experience troubleshooting large, complex systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience administering Linux Servers in production.
• Experience running Docker in production.
• Familiarity with bash scripting.

Nice to have:

Ideally you’d also have:

• Experience configuring and administering Kubernetes clusters, especially in production.
• Familiarity with Python, Elixir and Rust
• Experience with CircleCI.
• Experience with JFrog Artifactory.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services.
• Knowledge of any of Solr, Redis, Elasticsearch, My SQL, Kafka, Consul. Vault, Terraform and Packer.
• Familiarity with Phoenix (the Elixir framework).
• Experience with orchestration systems such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible.

About the team:

• All of the teams at Avvo iterate quickly and ship multiple times a day.
• We’re running an entirely dockerized deployment system, and we’re always making improvements to help our teams ship safer, and more quickly.
• We mostly run Ruby on Rails, and have brought in technologies like Elixir, Node, and Rust.
• We’re open to using the right technologies for what we build.