by Ronald Barron | Sep 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Chief of Staff, PL Corp
at Protocol Labs
#LI-REMOTE
About Protocol Labs
Protocol Labs drives breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward. Protocol Labs is a product-development lab, but behind the protocols and tools we build, behind the research and implementations, are passionate people, teammates, and community members. Most teams in the Protocol Labs Network are fully distributed and work remotely around the world. Engineers, researchers, and operators work in the open to improve the internet humanity’s most important technology as we explore new advances at the intersection of many exciting fields (crypto, networks, distributed systems) and cultures (startups, research, open-source, distributed work).
About the Protocol Labs Network
Protocol Labs is building the next generation of the internet. We are an open-source Network that spans the research to development pipeline to create new protocols, tools, and services to radically improve the internet. Our products serve thousands of organizations and millions of people. Many teams in the Network are fully distributed and follow a common set of open source practices to grow and flourish together. This distributed, open-source philosophy is at the core of how we operate.
We are looking to hire a talented, driven, and experienced Chief of Staff to support our PL Corp Lead and team by partnering with leaders in the Legal, Finance, Crypto and People Operations functions as well as other areas of the company. This is a high-impact and high-growth role.
Responsibilities include leading and coordinating different projects across PL Corp Org, and collaborating with the leadership team members on strategic and tactical execution projects for the business. As Protocol Labs grows, the challenges and impact of this role will grow.
As Chief of Staff, you will:
- Manage and prioritize extensive task lists, handle critical communications, and maintain dynamic schedules. Attend Org’s meetings, follow up with key partners on critical aspects, and collaborate with the Org Lead in keeping the leadership team accountable for goals and main KPIs. You will partner with teams and drive the execution of initiatives and projects by collaborating with cross-functional teams to influence, implement, extend, manage, and evolve our operational processes and models.
- Support the organization in discovering gaps in objectives and priorities across teams and projects.
- Partner with the PL Corp leadership team to provide project management and operational support while contributing to projects that help drive business priorities and strengthen team collaboration and morale.
- Assist in developing and monitoring project plans, schedules, and outcomes, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring operational feasibility across the PL Corp.
- Help the PL Org Leaders execute against their agenda and problem solve to drive high-priority business projects from conception through successful execution, collaborating with cross-functional internal team members.
- Evaluate project results and incorporate best practices and key learnings for future improvements.
We are looking for an individual who shares our values, can get fired up about our mission, and is excited to help us tackle larger and greater things. Ideal candidates are problem solvers with an execution mindset, astute, creative, knowledgeable, thoughtful, empathetic, efficient, analytical, intellectually curious, rigorous, and friendly.
Candidates must have excellent communication skills and experience working and managing communications with many different groups. Candidates must also be exceptionally organized, with extensive experience identifying, recording, prioritizing, and accomplishing a wide variety of tasks. Great candidates will have expertise in automating processes, measuring performance, and making systems more efficient over time.
As a rapidly growing organization, you should expect your role to evolve during your time at Protocol Labs. You will have the opportunity to grow your role, skills, and knowledge while being a part of a close-knit, dynamic group of individuals that strive for excellence daily. We strive to support our team in their professional development.
You may be a fit for this role if you have
- Project Management: demonstrated success leading complex projects and/or programs across teams or organizations.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher. MBA may be an advantage, but not required.
- GSD Get stuff done attitude: Can solve any task that needs solving.
- Business minded: solid business acumen, critical thinking, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- The ability to adapt to rapidly changing schedules and willingness to take requests and answer communication throughout various time zones.
- Strong knowledge of Google Apps (Gmail, Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations). Slack is a plus but not necessary.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills and ability to interact autonomously with internal and external partners.
- Sensitivity and understanding of confidential matters and ability to protect those accordingly.
- Excellent computer skills, and a self-starter in picking up new and complex systems.
- A demonstrated ability to grasp new concepts and software quickly.
- An ability to multitask and prioritize in a dynamic environment.
- An understanding of business priorities in a timely fashion.
- Superior attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Organization skills that allow you to follow up and make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
Bonus points…
- Experience in a technical, start-up, or open source environment.
- Experience working remotely.
What’s it like to work at Protocol Labs?
Protocol Labs’ mission is to improve humanity’s most important technology, the Internet. We build protocols, systems, and tools to improve how it works. Today, we are focused on how we store, locate, and move information. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more.
As a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.
We have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S.-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
If you’re passionate about the future of computing and a more democratized internet, we want to talk to you.
GDPR for Job Applicants and Candidates
When you apply to a job on this site, the personal data contained in your application will be collected by Protocol Labs, Inc. (Protocol Labs), which is located at 427 N Tatnall St #51207, Wilmington, Delaware 19801 and can be contacted by emailing legalrequests[at]protocol.ai. Protocol Labs’ data protection team can be contacted via legalrequests[at]protocol.ai. Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Protocol Labs’ recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results thereto, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes. Such processing is legally permissible under Art. 6(1)(f) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) as necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by Protocol Labs, which are the solicitation, evaluation, and selection of applicants for employment.
Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software, Inc., a cloud services provider located in the United States of America and engaged by Protocol Labs to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Protocol Labs’ behalf. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, your personal data will be transferred to the United States once you submit it through this site. Because the European Union Commission has determined that United States data privacy laws do not ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data collected from EU data subjects, the transfer will be subject to appropriate additional safeguards.
Your personal data will be retained by Protocol Labs as long as Protocol Labs determines it is necessary to evaluate your application for employment or to assist in the hiring process. Under the GDPR, you have the right to request access to your personal data, to request that your personal data be rectified or erased, and to request that processing of your personal data be restricted. You also have the right to data portability. In addition, you may lodge a complaint with an EU supervisory authority.
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Cloud Engineering Lead – USA Virtual!
Location: United States of America
We are seeking a Cloud Engineering Leader to act as a broad development leader for Alight s cloud platform. This is considered a technical leadership position requiring the incumbent to work under minimal supervision. This job has direct reports.
He/she leads, directs, and manages a team of cloud engineers and the associated work products for the team. You will collaborate with product managers, product analysts, architects, cloud engineers, security engineers, and software engineers to deliver high quality, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions and cloud platform services to business units within the agreed timeline. Manage multiple diverse projects and agile development workstreams simultaneously with a focus on quality and customer satisfaction. Supervises, establishes goals, and provides guidance, evaluations and/or performance feedback to staff; makes hiring recommendations.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
- Fully accountable to lead cloud engineering activities for cloud workstreams (Platform, Infrastructure as Code – Terraform and Automation Engineering – Ansible including CI/CD pipeline.
- Lead a team of Cloud Engineers and assist with their professional and technical growth and development
- Provides goals for staff, conducts performance reviews, and provides career management assistance
- Support the development of continuous delivery framework and DevOps tools & infrastructure as code and automation
- Build solutions based on security, monitoring, logging, and alerting requirements
- Contribute to developing common components and templates for resources in cloud using Infrastructure as Code
- Gather, analyze and translate technical needs into actionable, clearly defined user stories
- Support delivery teams as they develop, test, and deploy solutions
- Works with management and engineering team on planning, prioritization, and resource allocation initiatives
- Provides technical consultation and support to various stakeholders
- Ensures business unit compliance with policy, standards, regulations, and laws Identifies and tracks key metrics
- Participates in complex cloud lifecycle activities such as architecture, design, development, code review, and testing as needed
- Continuously improve team s delivery process through agile feedback loops, automation, and use of CI/CD tools
- Sets and enforces engineering standards and team operating procedures for building stable and resilient cloud solutions
- Mentors and guides the team in technical best practices and builds an inclusive team culture of learning and development
- Communicates technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Takes a proactive role in ensuring incidents and impediments are resolved and ensures corrective actions are taken for future improvements
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent background or experience
- 5 + years of hands-on experience in AWS and Azure environments
- 5 + years hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or CloudFormation tools
- 5 + years software product delivery experience in a team-based environment
- 5 + years of managing enterprise infrastructure
- 1-3 years of management experience or technical lead experience
- Advanced experience with programming tools, computer interfaces, and application architectures
- Experience deploying, managing, operating and monitoring of applications in scalable, highly available and fault tolerant data centers (both on-premise and hosted)
- Experience learning, sharing, and implementing best practices with the ability to define operational processes, implement DevOps, deployment checklists
- Experience with multiple programming languages
- Experience with source code management tools
- Experience developing solutions in an iterative (Agile) approach
- Experience with Continuous Integration build tools
- Advanced knowledge of scripting languages
- Strong knowledge of basic networking concepts
- Experience with system configuration tools and implementation of architectural frameworks (Service Oriented Architecture, Domain-Driven Design)
- Knowledge of container orchestration solutions
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Staff Site Reliability Engineer/DevOps
Location: Remote Work from Anywhere
Summary
We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to support and develop the platform serving the world’s favorite encyclopedia to millions of people around the globe. Wikimedia’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is principally responsible for ensuring our global top-15 website, our public-facing services, and underlying infrastructure is healthy and developing further in support of Wikimedia’s mission.
We apply the best software engineering practices in our operations, and we publish all of our documentation, code, and configuration as open source.
We are a globally distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment, and embrace new technologies. If you find what we do interesting, if you are up to the challenge of improving the reliability and delivery of one of the Internet’s top websites, and you enjoy the idea of working in a remote-first role, we may just be the right place for you.
You are responsible for:
- Performing day-to-day operational/DevOps tasks on Wikimedia’s public facing infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting)
- Implementing and utilizing configuration management and deployment tools (Puppet, Kubernetes)
- Leading continuous improvement, by automating the installation, configuration and maintenance of services on our platform
- Assisting in the architectural design of new services and making them operate at scale
- Assisting in or leading incident response, diagnosis, and follow-up on system outages and alerts across Wikimedia’s production infrastructure
- Share our values and work in accordance with them
Skills and Experience:
- 8+ years experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role as part of a team
- Experience with shell and any scripting languages used in an SRE context (Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, etc., we use primarily Python), and configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible, etc.)
- Experience with C, C++, Golang or Rust
- Experience with distributed caching systems: including their underlying algorithms and how to optimize their performance.
- A thorough, protocol-level understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP, and TLS
- Experience with package management on Linux systems (we use Debian)
- Comfortable with Open Source configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack)
- Good Linux system level skills
- History of automating tasks and processes, identifying process gaps, and finding automation opportunities
- Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
- Experience with the use, maintenance and configuration of monitoring, metrics and logging infrastructure (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Icinga/Nagios, etc.)
- Experience with high-performance HTTP(S) caching proxy software, such as Varnish, Envoy Proxy, Apache Traffic Server, Nginx or HAProxy
- Experience with Linux kernel tuning for high traffic loads
- Developing/contributing to Free and Open Source software, or being part of an open-source community
- Experience with defining cross-team SLOs and their implementation
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or (415) 839-6885.
More information
Wikimedia Foundation
Applicant Privacy Policy
News from across the Wikimedia movement
Wikimedia 2030
Our Commitment to Equity
This is Wikimedia Foundation
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Our Projects
Our Tech Stack
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Product Manager
Location: United States – Remote
Angi is transforming the home services industry, creating an environment for homeowners, service professionals and employees to feel right at home. For most home maintenance needs, our platform makes it easier than ever to find a qualified service professional for indoor and outdoor jobs, home renovations (or anything in between!). We are on a mission to become the home for everything home by helping small businesses thrive and providing solutions to financing and booking home jobs with just a few clicks.
Over the last 25 years we have opened our doors to a network of over 200K service professionals and helped over 150 million homeowners love where they live. We believe home is the most important place on earth and are embarking on a journey to redefine how people care for their homes. Angi is an amazing place to build your dream career, join us we cannot wait to welcome you home!
About the role:
As a Product Manager for Angi’s instant booking (Book Now) experience, you will be responsible for supporting the Book Now product vision and roadmap for our millions of homeowners & home service professionals.
What you’ll do:
- Develop a product vision and roadmap for internal tooling for the Book Now business, while delivering immediate impact on targeted business objectives
- Conduct data analysis, market research, and user research to incorporate customer needs into product decisions
- Translate upcoming product roadmap backlog into requirements documents (specs) with clear prioritization among features
- Evangelize the product vision and motivate team-members critical to the product’s success
- Work with engineering teams to estimate work efforts, define milestones and manage resources accordingly
- Coordinate with marketing, CX, operations, legal, BI and finance to ensure successful product rollout, communications and adoption
- Measure and report on product adoption and impact, and use data to recommend feature enhancements
Who you are:
- Fiercely competitive: you operate with a sense of urgency, creativity, and curiosity for how we can improve the lives of our customers and our pros. You aren’t easily knocked down
- A data expert: you can analyze and understand large data sets and filter out the noise, distilling the complex to be simple. You can use this data to solve problems, identify opportunities, and are capable of inventing and using new metrics in order to learn and make decisions
- Biased for action: you make good decisions with incomplete data and are constantly optimizing for learning
- An inventor: you can come in and define a program from scratch, build a plan, and drive
- A bar raiser: you inspire others to bring their A’ game and are constantly looking for opportunities for improvement. You don’t accept because that is the way we’ve always done it.
- An owner: you can seamlessly straddle thinking about both the product and the business and are equally comfortable talking about funnel metrics and P+Ls
Skills And Experience Needed For Success:
- 1+ years of product management experience at a tech company
- BA/BS in an analytical field such as economics, math, computer science preferred
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, both oral and written
- Creative problem solver with the ability to identify real obstacles and viable solutions
- Experience and comfort talking to users to identify pain points
- Willingness to get hands dirty and do whatever it takes to ensure success
- A proven track record of planning and shipping successful products
- Technical experience: you must understand the technical implications of the product decisions you make
- An attention to detail and an eye for design
- A passion for marketplaces, the sharing economy, and/or the on-demand services space
- Familiarity with Excel, databases and SQL preferred
- Willingness to adapt to a fast-paced work environment; hack, test and learn mentality; team player
We value diversity:
We know that the best ideas come from product teams where diverse points of view uncover new solutions to hard problems. We welcome and value individuals who bring diverse life experiences, educational backgrounds, cultures, and work experiences.
Compensation & Benefits:
- The salary band for this position is commensurate with experience and performance. Compensation may vary based on factors such as cost of living.
- This position will be eligible for a competitive year end performance bonus & equity package.
- Full medical, dental, vision package to fit your needs
- Flexible vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
- Pet discount plans & retirement plan with company match (401K)
- The rare opportunity to work with sharp, motivated teammates solving some of the most unique challenges and changing the world
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Financial Systems Analyst (Virtual)
Job Category: IT
Requisition Number: SENIO026190
Over 20 years ago, Stride was founded to provide personalized learning powered by technology. We reached students where they were in their own journeys. We knocked down their barriers to great education. And we gave every learner equal opportunity to succeed however they defined success. Stride innovated the learning experience with online and blended learning that prepared them for their lives ahead.
Stride is a community of passionate leaders. Whether teachers, engineers, curriculum writers, or financial managers whatever your expertise or role, we all work to empower futures through learning. And changing the trajectory of learning itself is one of our greatest missions. Join us in developing more effective ways to learn and helping learners build the skills and confidence they need to make their way forward in life.
The Financial Systems Analyst will support existing NetSuite ERP system, analyze business requirements, implement changes to NetSuite and build interfaces with third party systems. The Analyst must follow best practices and align with company goals while creating better procedures and solutions to increase performance and revenue.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- Support end-users in Finance, Accounting, and Administration for the implementation, maintenance, enhancement, and customization of the NetSuite (Enterprise Resource Planning) system
- Architect solutions for all interfaces and integration with portfolio companies and third-party systems.
- Identify, analyze and document technical programs with program function and provide feedback and recommendations to developers on software usability and functionality;
- Review software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, or completeness, or to mitigate risks;
- Handle all functional tasks relating to the maintenance and business user directed development of NetSuite, including end-user support and training in NetSuite functionality, setup, navigation and identification and documentation procedures to execute future customizations for the above processes.
Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.
MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Five (5) years of practical experience in technical support role
Certificates and Licenses: None required.
OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Five (5) years experiences of supporting ERP system
- Three (3) years experiences of supporting NetSuite system
- Functionally proficient as a NetSuite admin, able to creation and maintenance of users, roles, permissions
- Design, implement, and maintain customizations of NetSuite to meet evolving business needs including reports, saved searches, dashboards, and workflows
- Sharp problem-solving, analytical and innovation skills
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex ideas into simple language for non-technicians
- Solid technical background and skilled at developing releases for Upgrades, troubleshooting and implementation of new enhancement
- Keen project management skills, ability to drive projects from inception to completion.
- Ability to clear required background check
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience with NetSuite SuiteScript is a plus but not required
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states and D.C.
Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections.
- We anticipate the salary range to be $61,760 to $127,743. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. This salary is not guaranteed, as an individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.
The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is at-will as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the at-will nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.
Stride, Inc. is a Federal Contractor, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
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