This is a terrific opportunity for self-motivated individual to join our team. At Forward Financing, our mission is to be the leading provider of financing solutions to under-served small businesses. As the 15th fastest growing company in the US & #1 in Massachusetts (Inc 500.), we are at the forefront of growth in the FinTech space. We are 100% dedicated to this vertical and to achieving our mission. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will  join the automation/infrastructure team and help create, automate, and deliver the infrastructure that supports Forward Financing. You will be involved in just about everything that defines the backbone of the applications, from configuration through deployment and monitoring.  This role combines new technologies, an ambitious team, and a fast-growing company. In this role you will: Minimize manual work for engineers through automation. Instrument infrastructure and services for the purpose of monitoring, alerting, and logging. Participate in code reviews, technical discussions and architectural meetings . Lead and maintain discipline around build and release operations, best-practices, and protocols across the entire development team. Help architect, build, and deploy secure infrastructure in support of the engineering team as a whole. Run and maintain different Product environments (staging, production ect). Support goals and automation efforts with scripting and programming to deploy and operate our system. About You: Passionate:  High energy. “Can-do-attitude”.  Enthusiastic. Optimistic, open, and objective toward others. Coachable: Open to feedback and continual professional improvement.  Flexible and adaptable. High Standards:  Quality orientation. Follow through on commitments.  A Doer who gets things done. Efficient: Producing significant output with minimal wasted effort, organized planning and prioritization. Proactive: Self-starter, continually seeks additional responsibilities. willingness to go the distance to get something done, including working long hours at times if needed. Collaborative: Strong “people orientation”.  Can disagree without being abrasive or intimidating.  Team player. Emotional Intelligence: high degree of self-awareness. Handles interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.  Exercises good judgement while under pressure. Communicator: Speaks and writes clearly and articulately without being overly verbose or talkative and possesses an openness to people and a willingness to hear what others are saying. Analytical Skills : Structures and processes data to draw insightful conclusions from it. Exhibits a probing mind and achieves penetrating insights. Intelligence : Learns quickly. Demonstrates ability to quickly and proficiently understand and absorb new information. Requirements: 4+ years of proven, hands-on track-record as a devops engineer, focused on cloud-based systems Hands-on in-depth experience of Heroku/AWS is required Proven experience of developing infrastructure for microservices and complex service oriented  architectures Excellent understanding of distributed systems, designing for scalability, performance and availability Experience of establishing best-practices and deploying supporting technologies for improving platform security (including audit) and reliability (latency, availability, scalability) Knowledge of distributed network architectures and network security Proficiency in a  variety of programming languages – Ruby and JavaScript preferred Good knowledge of data persistence technologies including relational databases Excellent interpersonal and technical communication with peers, and non-peers alike, with a collaborative attitude

This ad goes out to all those who want to find a purpose in what they’re doing and take accountability for their work. At Blinkist, we’ve created a meaningful product that is growing fast. Our blinks – key insights from the world’s best nonfiction – help more than 8 million people around the globe to keep learning new, exciting things each and every day. We've received the United Nations World Summit Award in the Learning & Education category, a Google Material Design Award for Brand Expressiveness, as well as an Android Excellence Award. Why do we need you? Blinkist is a digital service with millions of users around the world, and our AWS-powered microservices platform is the backbone of our engineering efforts. We need you to help make this backbone robust and scalable, extend its capabilities, and educate and empower our developers to use it. On top of that, we want to distribute our infrastructure worldwide to provide the best experience to users in every country. You will join our backend team of 9 and work closely with our current DevOps engineers on designing and implementing the entire Blinkist infrastructure. As one of our Senior DevOps/Systems Engineers, you will: Extend and improve our container-based, Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure Automate ruthlessly to ensure a resilient, self-tuning system setup (no 24/7 support necessary) Educate developers across the company and provide them with the tools to use the platform autonomously and safely (self-serve infrastructure) Curate our CI/CD pipelines and make them bulletproof to allow our developers to build and deploy features quickly and reliably Develop systems and processes to seamlessly distribute Blinkist worldwide To do this, we believe you should have: At least 4 years hands-on experience in development/operations environments Experience and interest in programming, ideally in Go, Python, Ruby, or Shell Experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies like Terraform or CloudFormation Knowledge of AWS and container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes Experience with CI/CD best practices and systems like Jenkins, CircleCI, or TravisCI Clear communication skills and a diligent mindset: you consider documentation and reproducibility a critical feature, not a nice-to-have A constant will to learn and grow, and to share knowledge with others A passion for collaboration What’s in it for you? At Blinkist, we offer a fantastic workplace in the heart of Berlin-Neukölln including all the benefits you’d expect – from a personalized perk system to free private language lessons. Add free lunch, a competitive salary, a personal development budget of 1,500€ per year, flexible working hours, and a meaningful product on the rise, and you have a first impression of why Blinkist is a great place to work. We got rid of classical management hierarchies and, instead, distributed authority among all colleagues. We foster a unique company culture championing self-empowerment, personal development, direct communication and mutual support. Not only do we want you to grow into the role of DevOps, but we want this role to grow with you. If we’ve captured your interest and you want to help us build the leading destination for the modern lifelong learner, apply now and let us know why you’re the perfect fit for the job! Apply for this Job

Exiger is looking for talented Windows Infrastructure Engineering & Operations (DevOps) person to join our expanding Infrastructure Services team.  The Infrastructure Engineering & Operations (DevOps) role is responsible for the back-end infrastructure that supports Exiger’s client-facing web applications: Insight3PM and Exiger Intelligence. You will be working with a growing team of in-house engineers, Data Scientists and QA engineers, innovating and expanding on Exiger’s web-based product offerings.  Our ideal candidates have demonstrable experience building and supporting highly scalable, secure infrastructure, have a positive attitude and enjoy experimenting with new technologies and stacks. Candidates will be required to perform a code test or white boarding exercise as part of the interview process. Key Responsibilities Automation and management of infrastructure services, application deployments, cloud services, monitoring and databases    Provide visibility into business and systems performance metrics, in support of capacity planning and business reports    Work closely with Development and Infrastructure teams to maintain, manage and enhance the platform    Expanding our configuration management infrastructure to enable rapid deployment of new services.    Working with Information Security to perform security audits and proactively make recommendations/improvements   Deliver high-quality and durable systems that meet the specifications of our product management team on time and within budget.    Stay current on technology and domain trends, frameworks and cutting-edge technology.  The candidate will be working with our teams to bring new solutions delivered by technology to the company.    Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation. Knowledge & Skills Comfortable working in a continuous deployment environment    Experience configuring, securing and managing Windows servers Experience with managing MySQL databases, including replication, and web servers and proxies like Nginx, Squid and HAProxy    Scripting abilities in Unix Shell, Python or Ruby    Have used automation tools such as Puppet, Ansible or Vagrant    Experience with monitoring and metrics collection tools such as Logicmonitor, Sensu, InfluxDB and New Relic    Experience working with SCM tools such as git, GitHub, TFS and BitBucket.    Familiarity with SOA, microservices, message queueing and relational database concepts.    Experience working with third-partyand supporting internal/third-party RESTful web services and other APIs.and SOAP-based APIs.    Ability to effectively work on multiple projects simultaneously and effectively contend with competing priorities.    Willingness to share opinions and experiences with team and stakeholders regarding technical topics and approaches. Professional Experience Required Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science preferred.    A minimum of 4 years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering.    Experience with functional programming languages.    Interest in information security technologies.    Experience in the deployment of complex high availability applications.    Experience with Solr and Hadoop would be considered an asset. ** No recruiters/agencies please All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.  

DevOps Project Manager Location:  Bethesda, MD   GRSi , a Top 5 Technical company in Maryland is actively looking for a  DevOps Project Manager  to join our growing  Civilian Health IT Division . This position will be instrumental in providing leading edge DevOps CI/CD solutions  to world renowned healthcare and research organizations .  This position is based in  Bethesda, MD. Job Description: Responsible for planning, leading, organizing, executing and motivating Agile DevOps project teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering Agile projects that provide exceptional business value  Responsible for leading cross functional teams to achieve project objectives, regularly report on status, and manage projects through the entire lifecycle.  Manage scope, schedule, quality, and risks and issues. The DevOps Project Manager is responsible for managing several concurrent high visibility projects using agile methods in a fast-paced environment. May play other roles as needed to support successful project delivery Responsibilities: Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with a diverse group of staff members, stakeholders, and customers. Analyze project management needs and tailor industry best practices to suit environment. Work with stakeholders to define clear project objectives and requirements, agree on priorities, communicate progress updates and demonstrations, resolve issues and conflicts, and provide responsive change management. Work with cross-functional teams with diverse technical skill sets to support successful performance across operations and projects. Develop and maintain both programmatic and technical documentation. Participate in meetings; follow up on direction, action items, questions, documentation, etc. Enforce project roles and owners, communication processes, and status meeting schedule. Serve as a point of contact for customer leadership and corporate executive management. Manage the transformation to a DevOps/DevSecOps model within an Agile Project Management framework. Manage the integration of multiple siloed cross-functional teams into a DevOps/DevSecOps model. Manage the operationalization of the current Azure-hosted Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline as well as future on-premises or Cloud-hosted pipelines. Requirements/Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science or related discipline PMP Certification Agile certification (Certified Scrum Master (CMS), PMP-ACP, or Kanban certification) 3+ years project management experience, working with cross functional teams 3+ years of hands-on Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master experience performing backlog management, work specification, Scrum facilitation, Kanban, lessons learned. 2+ years managing projects within a DevOps/DevSecOps model. Solid understanding of and demonstrated hands-on experience in using Agile Project Management tools such as Jira. Solid understanding of and demonstrated hands-on experience Microsoft Project, Visio, Office Suite and SharePoint. Solid understanding of DevOps/DevSecOps and CI/CD methodologies. Some hands-on experience and familiarity with Cloud and automation tools/technologies such as: Chef, InSpec, Jenkins, Subject7, ElectricFlow, BitBucket, Serena, Cucumber, Ansible, Artifactory, Maven, JMeter, Docker, Kubernetes, Netsparker, Nessus, SonarQube, Splunk, etc. Experience writing Project Charters and MS Project Plans. Ability to analyze problems with a flexible and creative approach, manage complex tasks and adapt to rapidly changing requirements. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, and strong customer-facing skills. Self-starter and quick learner with lots of initiative and ability to work independently. Experience with development, release, change, knowledge management, and end-user support systems Must meet all requirements for obtaining and maintaining a Public Trust Clearance. Desired: ITIL v3 Foundation certification EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled