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\nOverview\n\nBrief Description\n\nAzavea 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.\n\nAzavea 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.\n\nWe are looking for\n\nWe’re looking for an Operations Engineer (devops) who enjoys the intricacies of deploying and scaling an application as much as building it. We are looking for a person that is passionate about building and operating software that will have a positive impact –someone interested in public service, but not necessarily in working for a government or a non-profit organization, and someone who enjoys working in a variety of technology environments.\n\n\nSkills & Requirements\n\nWho we are and what we’re doing\n\nAs a B Corporation, we’re committed to working on projects that have social and civic impact and advancing the state-of-the-art through research. Most of our customers are local governments, non-profit organizations and academic or federal research projects. We build custom apps; perform geospatial analysis; manage several open source civic software projects (DistrictBuilder, OpenTreeMap and others); and develop an open source, high performance computing framework, GeoTrellis, that enables us to build fast analytical applications by distributing the geospatial data processing. Our developers work across the technology stack, from the server to the database to the front-end.\n\nHalf of our colleagues are software engineers and most of the rest are fairly technical, so we don’t have a lot of traditional IT support requirements, but much of our work is increasingly based on Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure, and we believe that investments made in automated deployment and management processes are important to improving productivity, software quality and user experience. In addition, over the past year we have deployed three new SaaS products, OpenTreeMap, Cicero, and HunchLab, that are based on AWS. These new products rely on auto-scaling, EC2, VPC, S3, SWF, RDS and other services and APIs. While our software developers are all experienced with AWS, as more of our customers rely on these new SaaS products, we are interested in expanding our capacity to research, monitor, optimize, and adapt our infrastructure to changing conditions.\n\n\nWhat you’ll do:\n\n\n* 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.\n\n* Engage in multidisciplinary work that applies an agile process to system architecture, software development, testing and deployment.\n\n* Optimize database, server and client performance to create applications with both functional and responsive user experiences.\n\n* Contribute to both a growing company and to the open source communities that support our work.\n\n\n\n\n\nYou should:\n\n\n* Know your way around Linux systems.\n\n* Experience architecting solutions based on Amazon Web Services, Rackspace or Google Compute Engine.\n\n* Demonstrate experience with automated deployment, continuous integration, and source control.\n\n* Know how to build and support scalable web applications in a variety of languages (Python, Scala, Go).\n\n* Demonstrate familiarity with networking and security concepts.\n\n* Be interested in working with a small, collaborative team on meaningful projects.\n\n* Get excited about a diversity of both projects and technologies.\n\n\n\n\n\nYou get extra points for:\n\n\n* Demonstrating your open source or other community service contributions\n\n* Experience with core web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) and contemporary frameworks like jQuery, Angular, Backbone, and Bootstrap.\n\n* A good understanding of MVC architecture and RESTful design patterns\n\n* Experience with configuration management tooling (Chef, Ansible, Puppet) and application containerization techniques.\n\n* Familiarity with web and AWS security best practices.\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’ll notice that we don’t say “X-Y years of experience” or “M.S. in Computer Science.” Formal credentials like these are not irrelevant, but we are primarily looking for people who have had experience successfully building sophisticated web applications. You might have had these kinds of experiences without a college degree. Or you may be just out of school but worked your way through school and had some great co-op experiences. Or you might have a math or humanities background but a have a great head for software development. These are all potentially great backgrounds, and we’d be interested in hearing from you.\n\n\nOffice and Benefits\n\nOur Philadelphia office is located in a brightly lit office on the 4th floor of a converted factory building in the Callowhill neighborhood, a short walk from Center City, the Reading Terminal Market and SEPTA subway and regional rail stations. For bicyclists, we have in-house bike parking, a shower and lockers. It’s an open office plan with several smaller rooms for team meetings, private space and concentration time. You get a top-end Linux workstation, Mac or Windows laptop with a pile of memory for VMs and extra monitors. We have flex-time to deal with personal stuff, and most people work a 40 – 45 hour week on a regular schedule. After the first six months, our developers can also spend up to 10% of their time on a geospatial open source, professional development, or R&D project. For example, some of our colleagues are contributors to the PostGIS, OpenLayers, GDAL and GeoTrellis projects. Other research projects have included improving dev ops tool chains; using FFT for fast kernel density estimation; working with Spark to develop machine learning tools; and hijacking GPUs for raster data processing. Once a quarter, we all get together to share our research and learning with our colleagues.\n\nWe offer a salary commensurate with skills and experience and a benefits package that includes:\n\n\n* Fully subsidized health care, dental, prescription plan, including for spouse/partner and children\n\n* Medical reimbursement plan to cover what the health insurance does not\n\n* Retirement plan with matching percentage\n\n* Almost 4 weeks paid vacation plus sick/personal time off\n\n* Family and medical leave\n\n* Flexible work schedule\n\n* Paid maternity and paternity leave\n\n* Paid time off for voting and volunteering\n\n* Education assistance plan\n\n* Student loan assistance\n\n* Public transit and biking reimbursement plans\n\n* Monthly lunches on the house\n\n* 10% time for Research or Training Projects\n\n* Profit-sharing bonus plan\n\n* Financial transparency through an open book policy\n\n* Supremely awesome colleagues\n\n\n\n\nWe welcome qualified candidates from all walks of life and value diversity in our company, and we prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, military service, disability unrelated to job requirements, marital status, or domestic partner status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Ops, Amazon, Cloud, Math, SaaS, Medical and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n
$70,000 — $120,000/year\n
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๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐
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