by Ronald Barron | Feb 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Ookla
Description
Ready to challenge yourself to dive deep and think big? Ookla, the company behind Speedtest, Downdetector, and many other connectivity tools, is a team of passionate individuals who have turned clever ideas into unique products and a thriving business. Globally, over 15 million tests are performed every day across the Speedtest ecosystem on the web, desktop and mobile apps, embedded in routers and deployed in thousands of servers. With all that usage comes countless ways to dissect and analyze our data. It also gives us the ability to help make the internet better, faster and more accessible for everyone. If you crave the chance to do your best work in a flexible work environment where we value individuality and fun as much as we value talent, we want to hear from you.
We are looking for a highly capable engineer to join our Platform engineering team. You will be responsible for building, maintaining and operating the infrastructure platform on which all Ookla services are built.
In this role, you will build, maintain, and support a massive scale dynamic infrastructure supporting hundreds of millions of users around the world. You will obsess over systems performance, reliability, observability, and security. Most importantly, you will help deliver critical application functionality and help make the internet experience better for our users.
You will be responsible for:
- Maintaining a distributed, global ecosystem of thousands of cloud instances, containerized workflows, serverless applications, Linux servers, and associated infrastructure supporting billions of requests daily
- Maintaining transactional database infrastructure using MySQL, PostgreSQL, and managed services such as RDS/Aurora
- Supporting production systems in a 24x7x365 environment, including on-call responsibilities
- Providing architectural and operational support to software engineers in a wide variety of focus areas
- Support software and data engineering teams and guiding operational best practices
- Implementation and oversight of security program including vulnerability remediation, patch management, IDS/IPS, penetration testing, and interfacing with our corporate InfoSec team
- Supporting the dev to production code deploy pipeline for a range of production applications
Requirements
- 4+ Years Systems/Platform engineering experience
- Experience building globally-distributed systems
- Strong understanding of security best practices
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Cloudformation
- Branching and Merge based Source Code Configuration Management: Git, Github
- Configuration management systems such as Chef or Ansible
- Container based architectures including Docker, Kubernetes
- Proficiency in one or more high level programming languages such as Typescript, Go, Python, PHP, Ruby, Java, etc.
- Experience with AWS and other Cloud infrastructure platforms
- Comfort writing SQL queries and analyzing query performance
- Comfortable learning and working with new technologies in an ever-changing environment
- Strong communication skills both in person and via virtual mediums
- Strong time management skills and a self driven work ethic
Benefits
People come first at Ookla. We offer competitive compensation, flexible schedules, transit passes, on- and off-site happy hours, team activities, lunch on Wednesdays and an office kitchen full of snacks. Our comprehensive benefits package includes 401(k) matching, unlimited paid vacation and sick time, ESPP options, health/dental insurance coverage and a stand-out parental leave. We make sure you have the best hardware, software and tools available for you to do your work, and we provide excellent flexibility for working remotely as time and responsibilities allow. Visit [our Built In Seattle page] for even more information.
Location:
- This is a remote/office based position which may be performed anywhere in the United States except for within the state of Colorado.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Thermo Fisher Scientific
This role supports the Data Governance Office (DGO). The role will own the transition of data standards from approval to execution and ongoing management throughout the project lifecycle. This will involve working closely with business and IT partners in a variety of businesses and disciplines, understanding their business needs and system capabilities and enabling them to adopt the standard in a manner that is both practical and beneficial to their mission. This is a critical data governance role accountable for definition and standardization of data domains across divisional lines of business. This high transparency position provides effective coordination and alignment among various data stewards and functional leaders for a set data domain or organization. The role will initially focus on the Analytical Instruments Group (AIG), but has the possibility to expand to support other Groups as the DGO expands. The role will report to the Senior Director, Data Governance Office and will initially have no direct reports.
Key Responsibilities:
Drive Data Governance actions and culture as various business and IT partners look for support and direction.
- Partner with the Data Governance Office to ensure a smooth transition from standard release to project definition to execute upon these standards
- Work with and support group, divisional and BU level data stewards and system SMEs who will be working as part of the broader teams implementing these standards.
- Provide regular updates to the Data Governance Office and multi-functional partners on progress of in-flight projects and raise any roadblocks to successful execution
- Identify any deviations to standards through the implementation process and work with standards lead to update the relevant documentation
- Assist in building a community of data governance practitioners through socializing events or use of collaboration sites
- Ensure technology considerations are assessed as part of project planning process
- Work with the DGO and multi-functional partners to build an annual roadmap of projects and socialize the benefits of these to secure accurate funding is budgeted and resources allocated
How you will get here:
Education
A Bachelor s Degree or equivalent is required with a Master s Degree optional. Ideal subject areas studied would include business, finance, operations or economics.
Experience
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
- 7+ years of proven experience within finance, supply chain, commercial or IT ideally with experience in large projects across multiple groups
- 7+ years progressive experience in a project-based role in a multi-functional area such as finance, commercial support and Business Intelligence
- Experience working in a data driven environment where accuracy and change control were a focus
- Awareness of technologies and data sources that could be utilized to ensure increased success in governance (e.g. Dun & Bradstreet, Bloomberg)
- Willing to learn and adopt project management frameworks such as Scrum
- Flexibility with working hours to suit project needs (support varying time zones)
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: GoDaddy
This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Colorado, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.
At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.
This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. Once we can safely travel, you may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or offsites.
Mountain or West Coast hours required.
Join our team…
Do you want tobe aTechnical Leader within Information Security, supporting the world’s largest platform for entrepreneurs around the globe? Then come work with us at GoDaddy!
Want to work on a team that has a winning combination of hands-on technical skills, strong leadership abilities, and an eagerness todesign solutions to complex problems? GoDaddy is looking for aSenior Security Engineerto join the Cybersecurity Incident Response team. An ideal candidate for this role can work independently with limited supervision, understands, and can execute appropriate action on a wide range of events in on-premises and cloud environments, provides mentorship and oversight to junior peers, and is capable of guiding improvements in accordance with a continuously changing threat landscape.
What you will get to do…
- Lead cybersecurity incidents throughout the lifecycle.
- Participate in continuous improvement efforts for incident response capabilities across people, process, and technology.
- Collaborate with teams to optimize detections.
- Development and evolve security solutions to align business requirements with GoDaddy standards.
- Change champion for SecDevOps, providing support to developers, partner in architecture reviews, operations, and others on security best practices and tools to foster security expertise across the SDLC.
- Function as a subject matter expert for system hardening, vulnerability remediation and incident response.
- Assist with scoping prospective projects, participating in projects from kickoff through “definition of done,” while mentoringmore juniorteam members.
Your experience should include…
- High passion for security subject matters (Incident Response, Vulnerability Assessment, Threat Intelligence, etc.)
- Strong grasp of operating systems (Windows, Linux, MacOS) and networking protocols and concepts.
- Extensive knowledge of internet security issues and the threat landscape.
- Demonstratable ability to architect and drive implementation oflarge-scalecross company initiatives.
- Ability to understand and apply the cyber kill chain model to events.
- Previous experience with the following tools is helpful: Splunk, ELK, Tanium, TrendMicro, Atlassian, ServiceNow, GitHub, Okta, Microsoft Security products.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to provide leadership and guidance to team members and to work effectively with technical and non-technical staff.
You might also have…
- Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science or other related degree.
- Experience with incident response in cloud platforms [AWS, GCP, etc].
- Ability to perform memory or disk-based forensic analysis.
- Incident Response specific or other relevant certifications [ex. GCIH, ECIH, CISSP, etc.]
- Experience working within an agile framework.
- Knowledge of CIS or similar security frameworks.
- Minimum5years of information security experience.
We’ve got your back… Enjoy our many benefits (My Wallet), including paid time off, 401k, equity grants and parental leave. Join one of our employee resource groups (Culture). Continue to have a side hustle, if you have one (we love entrepreneurs, remember?). Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Array.com
Array is revolutionizing how businesses leverage and enhance consumer data. Our platform enables innovative companies and developers to seamlessly integrate credit and identity data into their apps, websites or workflows. As a remote-first company, we’re focused on providing opportunities for autonomous individuals to have high levels of impact at the forefront of the fintech space. Continuous improvement, experimentation, and a clear mission stretch us individually and together in service of delivering the best products for our clients and users.
We are building out the latest generation of credit reporting services supporting hundreds of thousands of visitors daily, on mobile and desktop. We are seeking an experienced, results-driven, and passionate MS SQL/DBA developer to join our remote team. Our ideal candidate is a self-starter and has excellent communication skills. Our collaborative environment relies heavily on innovation, technical savvy, and problem-solving skills. Interested? We’d love to hear from you! And we are always esp. happy to see any pointers you may have to your work on Git (GitHub, GitLab, etc.) or a personal Web site.
Responsibilities
- Key member of technical team responsible for key transaction database systems
- Responsible for design, development and implementation of database changes in a SQL Server environment
- Acts as liaison with Database operations team and Development Team
- Translates business requirements from multiple business units to database structure
- Responsible for implementation and support of ETL, monitoring and reporting processes
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of SQL Server experience with both DBA and Data Development / Architecture Skills (T-SQL, SP’s).
- Experience working with development teams to deliver database objects and database code as needed..
- Ability to reverse engineer stored procedure and table relationships from front-end systems and end-user requirements.
- Experience understanding and documenting system data flow.
- Experience interacting directly with operations management in a call center or financial services environment.
- Experience and competence creating operational requirements and turning those requirements into data-outputs.
- Understanding of end-user reporting concepts (date grains, dynamic grouping, filtering).
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
Location: Work from home position located in the Eastern United States
What does it mean to work at Armstrong?
It means being immersed in a supportive culture that recognizes you as a key player in Armstrong’s future. We are a large company with a local feel, where you will get to know and collaborate with leadership and your colleagues across the company.
By joining us, you’ll have the opportunity to make the most of your potential. Alongside a competitive remuneration package, you will receive:
- A benefits package including: medical, dental, prescription drug, life insurance, 401k match, long-term disability coverage, vacation and sick time, product discount programs and many more.
- Personal development to grow your career with us based on your strengths and interests.
- A casual work environment where we have a recognition program for our team, and service awards. You will also be able to make the most of our fitness center and lunchtime cafe.
- A working culture that balances individual achievement with teamwork and collaboration. We draw on each other’s strengths and allow for different work styles to build engagement and satisfaction to deliver results.
As our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Technical Analyst, you will be responsible for participating in a variety of analytical and technical assignments, problems diagnosis and solutions, documentation, implementation, administration, support, and maintenance on a variety of software and network products in an information technology environment.
You will primarily be focused on project-based work leading to the development and deployment of new services.
What you’ll be doing:.
- Manages, builds, and maintains processes in the Saleforce.com CRM cloud platform, supporting sales, service, and marketing processes.
- Leads/participates in the design, development and enhancement of business specific custom and standard applications.
- Leads/participates in requirements gathering to provide technical guidance on systems options and solutions.
- Leads/participates in the configuration/development changes in the CRM environment (e.g., writes functional specifications, performs and/or coordinates testing, obtains customer approvals and supporting documentation and supports promotion of code/configuration to production) to meet the company’s business objectives.
- Manages/coordinates medium and small systems or business projects.
- Supports, researches, analyzes, develops and documents new and existing processes, procedures, and solutions to meet business needs.
- Supports the development and management of relationships with vendors in concert with manager and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) process.
- Leads/participates in the development, implementation and maintenance of best-practice standards, policies, procedures, and associated training plans to ensure optimal daily operations are maintained.
- Leads/participates in integrated systems planning and recommends new or different technologies which will enhance current systems and support overall corporate and business goals.
- Establishes/maintains lines of communication with stakeholders with a view to keeping all parties informed of incidents, problems, and resolution.
- Provides technical consultation to business partners and IT management to ensure development of efficient infrastructure utilizing established standards, procedures, and methodologies.
- Assists in the recruitment and selection of project resources, as required.
- Works collaboratively with management and colleagues to identify and prioritize projects in the portfolio associated with the maintenance of existing systems, development and implementation of new systems, resolution of more complex problems and the evaluation of emergent technologies through developing business cases that include options, recommendation, cost/benefit, and risk analysis.
- Researches and evaluates new and/or alternative solutions and technologies to enhance operational effectiveness and reduce costs.
- Assists managers, architects and analysts in the creation and maintenance of multi-year functional roadmaps for assigned disciplines.
- Contributes to the development of tactics, planning and execution of initiatives to support IT services.
- Maintains technical documentation and process topology to ensure alignment between the business strategies and the technology roadmap.
- Serves as analyst and developer on projects to extend, enhance, and create new capabilities in areas of specialization.
- Works within system development life cycle methodologies including Agile.
- Provides estimates for new project work.
- Develops understanding of relevant business process. Provides analysis relative to process improvement with consideration to industry and system best practices.
- Provides support and maintenance for assigned areas.
- Drives continuous process improvement related to operational aspects the environments.
What will make you successful:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in systems development.
- Salesforce.com development experience, including Apex classes and triggers and Visual Force.
- Proficiency with Microsoft SQL server (3+ years), including queries, stored procedures, and triggers.
- Ability to design and develop integrated processes associated with Account and Contact Management, Opportunity Management, Price Management, Case Management, Contact Centers and Marketing Fulfillment processes, including customer-facing user experiences.
- Ability to translate technical details in business language.
- Ability to build relationships and willingness to communicate with customer groups.
- Statistical, analytical, and problem-solving ability in estimating the financial impact of application and business process alternatives.
- Broad working knowledge of infrastructure support principles.
- Demonstrated ability to comprehend and share strategy, vision and direction and to embrace and facilitate change
- Working knowledge of a DBMS and data structures.
- Ability to leverage existing resources to maximize technology investments.
- Intellectual curiosity supported by strong listening and needs assessment skills; ability to identify root issues versus symptoms
Desired Experience:
- Working knowledge of technology architecture preferred in a manufacturing environment
- Certification in either a process discipline (ITIL, PMI, Six Sigma) or technical discipline (SAP, Data Warehousing)
- Salesforce certifications to include: Salesforce Certified Administrator, Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator, Salesforce Certified User Experience Designer and/or Salesforce Certified Platform Developer
Why should you join Armstrong World Industries?
Armstrong World Industries (AWI) is a leader in the design and manufacture of innovative commercial and residential ceiling, wall and suspension system solutions in the Americas. With approximately $1B in revenue, AWI has about 2,500 employees and a manufacturing network of twelve facilities.
At home, at work, in healthcare facilities, classrooms, stores, or restaurants, we offer interior solutions that help to enhance comfort, save time, improve building efficiency and overall performance, and create beautiful spaces.
For more than 150 years, we have built our business on trust and integrity. It set us apart then, and it sets us apart now, along with our ability to collaborate with and innovate for the people we’re here to serve – our customers, our shareholders, our communities and our employees.
We are committed to developing new and sustainable ceiling solutions, with design and performance possibilities that make a positive difference in spaces where we live, work, learn, heal and play. It’s an exciting, rewarding business to be in, and we’re committed to continue to grow and prosper for the benefit of all of our stakeholders. We hope you join us.
Our Sustainability Ambition
“Bringing our Purpose to Life” – lead a transformation in the design and building of spaces fit for today and tomorrow.
We are committed to:
- Engaging a diverse, purpose-driven workforce;
- Transforming buildings from structures that shelter into structures that serve and preserve the health and well-being of people and planet;
- Pursuing sustainable, innovative solutions for spaces where we live, work, learn heal and play;
- Being a catalyst for change with all of our stakeholders; and
- Making a positive difference in the environments and communities we impact.
Location
Lancaster, PA. A great central location in South Central Pennsylvania, Lancaster is ideally situated for easy access to major metropolitan cities such as Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, and New York City. Lancaster offers a vibrant arts and entertainment community with wonderful historic sites, B&Bs, museums, great shopping, entertainment venues and restaurants.
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