Our team builds and supports the infrastructure and systems underneath the Cowbell Cyber service. 

To be successful, you will be comfortable designing and implementing build and release systems, navigating AWS and Kubernetes, managing and automating core services like ElasticSearch and Kafka. You think in terms of SLOs and collaborate closely with both the data engineering team and software engineering teams in ensuring reliability and scalability.

The work you do at Cowbell Cyber will be conference talk worthy.

If that sounds like you, we want to hear from you!

What you will do:

• Automation. Automation. Automation.
• Help lead, design, build and improve service scalability, resiliency, and efficiencies across the company with a security-first mindset
• Work with development leaders to Identify mission-critical problems and solve them via automation, tooling, communication, and informed design.
• Build and improve monitoring and instrumentation to predict future scalability or failure risks and solve them before they manifest into customer-facing issues.
• Facilitate company-wide visibility into key metrics, SLAs, and milestones so that scale and resiliency are a part of every conversation.
• Develop best practices alongside engineering/operations teams to improve the scalability and reliability of internal processes.
• Mentorship is key and you will help grow those around you.
• Work closely/consistently consult with development teams on platform integration
• Oversee continuous application deployment and work with development teams on best practices.
• Regularly solicit feedback from engineers and architect solutions to improve development velocity.

What Cowbell needs from you:

• 3-5 years SRE/DevOps experience
• Strong development and automation skills.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc).
• Extensive experience with a variety of AWS services
• Experience building production quality cloud infrastructure that enables reliable and rapid deployment of microservices with effective monitoring and resilient operations. 
• Strong passion for improving the lives of coworkers while ensuring a stable, reliable experience for customers.
• Strong cross-team communication skills and experience with working closely/embedded with developers.
• Experience with the building blocks of large-scale systems including load balancing, distributed/cloud computing, containers, instrumentation, and monitoring.
• Familiarity with one or more programming languages (Python, Ruby, Golang….).

Preferred qualifications:

• Desire to "build for lazy" and build systems and computers that reason for us
• Experience with Java application servers and JVM configuration
• Experience with monitoring & observability systems like Prometheus or DataDog and tools or frameworks like OpenTracing
• Believe everything should be "as code"
• Experience in Systems, Operations, or Full-Stack Development is a major bonus
• Extensive experience with Amazon EKS