by Ronald Barron | Feb 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Fastly
Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.
We’re building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.
IT Help Desk Specialist
This position will be remote. You will have significant experience in supporting a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You are comfortable working as part of a distributed team and will be primarily supporting operations in our Global offices.
You are someone who asks questions, is confident in not knowing everything, and would rather collaborate with others than go it alone. You are empathic and well-organized, but able to work outside of the boundaries when vital. On top of your validated history of success, you have a passion for technology and, like us, you value hard work and fun in equal measure.
What You’ll Do
- Tackling problems with Apple & Windows products, including desktop and laptop hardware
- Support and assist employees using AV systems(Vimeo), both onsite and remote, audio and video conferencing(Zoom/Hangouts)
- Handling user accounts, Creating, deleting, and resetting passwords
- Installing and configuring software to end-users
- Responding to support requests in the IT Helpdesk both in virtual meeting rooms and via a ticketing system
- Handling inventory for hardware and software
- Managing Knowledge Base articles
What We’re Looking For
- 1-2+ years of experience in IT support roles, fundamental networking skills
- Knowledge and hands-on experience handling Apple & Windows laptops and desktops
- Experience using and running ticket-based enterprise workflow management systems,
- A positive, service-oriented demeanor
- Tried problem-solving skills
- Good Interpersonal relations
- Ability to lift heavy equipment (50+ pounds) as needed
We value a variety of voices, so this is not a laundry list. It would be an added bonus if you have experience in ANY of these:
- Jamf (Apple management tool)
- Supporting the Atlassian Suite (Jira & Confluence)
- Bettercloud Administrative tools
- Ticket management
- Okta
- Slack
In accordance with applicable law, Fastly’s minimum base pay for this role if hired in Colorado is $54,000 per year. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity plan. Final offer amount will be at the company’s sole discretion and determined by multiple factors, including years and depth of experience and expertise, location and other business considerations. Note that this role is available to candidates outside of Colorado and different minimum compensation may apply.
- Health benefits (medical, dental, and vision)
- Medical: Cigna or Kaiser available
- Retirement benefits and employer match
- Life Insurance (Basic and Voluntary Life)
- Short & Long Term Disability with a buy-up LTD option
- Voluntary Accident & Critical Illness benefits
- Flex Spending Accounts & Mass Transit benefits
- Open Vacation Policy
- Sick Time
- Generous leave benefits (medical, maternity, paternity, and personal)
- Paid wellness days
- Employee Assistance Program
- Learning & reimbursement program stipend
- Mobile and internet allowance
- Wellness stipend
- Pet insurance
Fastly reserves the right to amend or modify for any reasons in accordance with applicable law.
Why Fastly?
- We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
- We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is in our DNA.
- We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits like up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
- We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful — every day.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Vista
Who We Are:
Vistaprint is the industry leader in personalized physical and digital products. We empower over 17 million global customers to make an impression and we’re fueled by forward-thinking and innovative technology. We encourage our engineers to think like owners to continue to act small as we grow. Every team builds their own roadmaps, and chooses the programming languages and technologies that suit them best. This helps us have a big impact at the enterprise level, while still feeling small and nimble.
Just last year, Vistaprint generated $1.508B in revenue through customized print products, signage, apparel, websites and more.
Vistaprint is a global e-commerce brand empowering more than 16 million micro business owners to professionally promote their business with quality printed and digital marketing products at an affordable price. Our world-class online design studio allows customers to easily customize their products including business cards, marketing materials, signage, promotional products, apparel, Vistaprint websites, digital marketing, cards and stationery at www.vistaprint.com. We support 25 localized Vistaprint websites serving various global markets and have thousands of employees in offices worldwide.
What You Will Do:
- Design and build highly available, scalable services to support collaborative design experiences
- Develop a new technology stack at the core of the Vistaprint customer experience
- Collaborate closely with Product to overcome complex challenges with innovative technical solutions
- Make a significant impact on a critical aspect of the business
- Grow your skills every day by working on challenging problems with talented engineers
Your Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience working as a software developer in a fast-paced, technical, problem-solving environment
- Proven track record of engineering excellence including continuous delivery of high quality, massively scaled, innovative software
- 2+ years with full-stack software development including front-end frameworks using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AJAX and some MV* frameworks like React / Vue / Angular / Backbone
- Mastery of at least one object-oriented programming language (Java, C#, etc.)
- Cloud experience
Nice to Have:
- Strong ability to communicate with diverse audiences (including technical, non-technical and senior management)
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent collaboration and the desire to work with a cross-cultural team
- Experience with Agile development using Scrum or Kanban
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
Being at Vistaprint means that you don’t see work as just a building, a desk or a manufacturing floor. You see it as a chance to take a step forward in your career journey and your life. We strive to give you everything you need to learn, grow, and succeed. Through innovation, collaboration, and perpetual exposure to what’s next, we’re always pushing boundaries and broadening our horizons. We embrace the chance to operate outside of our comfort zone to discover what we’re capable of. Some might call that a challenge; we just call it another great day at work.
Remote First-Culture:
In 2020, Vistaprint adopted a Remote-First operating model and culture. We heard from our team members that having the freedom, autonomy and trust in each other to work from home and, the ability to operate when they are most productive, empowers everyone to be their best and most brilliant self. Vistaprint also provides collaboration spaces for team members to work physically together when it’s safe to do so or believe in office working will deliver the best results. Currently we are enabled to hire remote team members in over 20 US States as well as several countries in Europe: Spain, Germany, UK, Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Aspect Software (Alvaria)
Job Description
- Working in coordination and direction from management our Cloud Services Engineer is responsible for automation, configuration, and operational support of our cloud infrastructure within Azure and AWS.
- The engineer is responsible for design, documentation, implementation, unit testing and defect fixing of new and existing automation code.
- The engineer will be responsible for leveraging automation strategies to resolve complex problems.
- The job requires close interaction with Development, QA, Support, and Customer Support teams.
- The Cloud Services Engineer leverages python, ansible, NodeJS, go, PowerShell and other specific technologies required to develop and maintain the automation tools and associated code at an advanced level.
PRIMARY ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Code may be used in commercial end-user applications, prototypes, or in test tools or other supporting programs.
- Using the required programming languages and other technologies, writes code, completes programming, and performs testing and debugging of automated deployment and configuration software.
- Interact with internal cross-functional members to better understand system requirements and/or necessary modifications.
- Develops and/or executes deployment, configuration, and automation using Ansible and Jenkins.
- Create and document best practices guidelines and knowledge base articles.
- Completes documentation and procedures for deployment, configuration, installation and maintenance.
- Ensures products are up to date with 3rd party components that are in use.
- Proactively identify non-compliance of code against requirements/standards/design and raise defects.
- Work with members in the organization across various time zones.
- Write Automation Jobs to correct common issues and change configuration.
- Manage CI/CD tools with a team
- Use knowledge of Alvaria’s Product suite to create/discover auto-remediation opportunities
- Work with Slack/Datadog/Sumologic integrations
- Brainstorm new ideas and ways to auto remediate issues
- Create APIs to facilitate
- Work with various Azure/AWS Services such as Lambda, Data pipelines, S3, Load Balancers, CLI
Qualifications
- Minimum 1 years of experience in S/W Development.
- Minimum 2 years Cloud Deployment experience (AWS, Azure, etc).
- Four-year degree in technical or engineering field in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline, required.
- Minimum 2 years JavaScript Knowledge
- Minimum 2 years of Python experience
- Minimum 1 years of PowerShell experience.
- Minimum 2 years of Windows Server O/S experience.
- Minimum 2 years of Linux experience.
- Minimum 1 year of Alvaria Cloud Maintenance or Troubleshooting
- Minimum 1 year of Containers experience (Docker)
- Version control systems (e.g. Bitbucket,Git) required.
Preferred skills (but not required) are:
- Ansible
- Python
- Javascript
- Jenkins
- AWS/Azure
- React
- Chef
- Mongodb
- Kubernetes
- Docker
Participate in an on call rotation
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
- Demonstrate competency in engineering tools, methods and processes.
- Demonstrates technical flexibility, and creativity in problem solving.
- Ability to communicate complex information to internal audiences.
- Professional demeanor to maintain and enhance relationships.
- Strong customer service and teamwork skills.
- Performs work where problems are unique and solutions are not predetermined.
- Ability to use technical concepts to solve difficult problems in imaginative and varying ways.
- Ability to provide resolutions to problems of complex and diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
- Provides guidance to less experienced team members.
- Actively contributes to design or process development in a broad scope.
- Contributes to the design specification of a product.
- Experience in multi-threaded programing and object-oriented design.
- Experience with software debugging tools and techniques.
- Should be aware of advanced design concepts like Design Patterns
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: PRA Health Sciences
Overview
ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation. From molecule to medicine, we advance clinical research providing outsourced services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisations.
With our patients at the centre of all that we do, we help to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life.
Our people are our greatest strength, are at the core of our culture, and the driving force behind our success. ICON people have a mission to succeed and a passion that ensures what we do, we do well.
Responsibilities
- Programs statistical analyses (via analysis datasets, tables, figures, listings, etc.) using an appropriate statistical analysis software tool (e.g.. SAS®), and may include tabulation datasets.
- Ensures the accuracy and consistency of data flow from case report forms (CRFs) to specifications for analysis datasets. (May include tabulation datasets.)
- Performs quality review of analysis dataset and TFL programs developed by other programmers and biostatisticians. (May include tabulation datasets.)
- Verifies that tabulation and statistical analysis system programs and associated documentation are archived prior to the creation of final output.
- Develops new processes and ensures all process improvements are implemented.
- Takes a lead role in the review of statistical analyses plans and provides essential feedback.
- Collaborates with other team members to develop quality reports, publications and regulatory submissions.
- Maintains libraries of documented and validated programs, macros, and procedures which can be reused to aid in department efficiency.
- Serves as the chief mentor to other programmers.
- Contributes to departmental initiatives and acts as an SME on technical subjects as applicable.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or scientific field required. Master’s preferred.
- Ideally, 10 years of statistical programming experience.
- Expert knowledge and understanding of analysis data structure standards (ADaM) and a good understanding of conversion data structure standards (SDTM).
- Expertise in computer programming, statistical analysis systems (SAS), and other procedural languages.
- Fully understands biometrics procedures, workflows, and software systems.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills required.
Benefits of Working in ICON:
Our success depends on the knowledge, capabilities and quality of our people. That’s why we are committed to developing our employees in a continuous learning culture – one where we challenge you with engaging work and where every experience adds to your professional development.
At ICON, our focus is to provide you with a comprehensive and competitive total reward package that comprises, not only an excellent level of base pay, but also a wide range of variable pay and recognition programs. In addition, our best in class employee benefits, supportive policies and wellbeing initiatives are tailored to support you and your family at all stages of your career – both now, and into the future.
ICON, including subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: American Electric Power
Job Description
- This position is located in Columbus, Ohio but may be eligible for remote home based as long as selected candidate is within AEP’s current operating territory (WV, VA, TN, AR, KY, TX, OH, IN, MI, OK, LA)*
- Responsible for large-scale security assignments with minimal direction from senior team to help ensure that the company complies with global privacy and data protection laws, regulations, and industry leading practices.
- Responsible for gathering, investigating, and analyzing privacy and data protection requirements, processes, and incidents.
- Responsible for the conceptual design of implementation strategies on assigned privacy and data protection projects/activities.
- Demonstrates advanced problem solving, decision-making, and functional area knowledge. Mentors and provides functional/technical work direction to team.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Act as a data privacy and compliance champion by monitoring and validating privacy controls to ensure that projects, documentation, and processes are compliant with current data privacy regulations.
- Analyze, monitor, and report, as well as design and perform assessments on privacy risk.
- Develop and follow methodologies to process and collect metrics that will allow the company to understand current risk states, trends, and control effectiveness.
- Identify gaps in the design and operating effectiveness of privacy control frameworks.
- Create and implement internal tools and strategy to communication policies and procedures to key stakeholders.
- Develop, refine, and update procedures to enhance privacy and compliance governance.
- Work with internal teams to remediate any activities for continuous privacy improvement, including manage projects for privacy and compliance enhancement.
- Flexibly assist in other areas of concern to the privacy team to benefit the company’s privacy posture.
- Understands the impact individual security, privacy, and related business decisions may have on the enterprise. Demonstrates awareness of key security and privacy trends.
Job Type Full-Time
Relocation No
Minimum Requirements
NOTE: This position will be filled at the experience and salary grade level commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the selected candidate as compared to the minimum requirements stated below.
Note: The selected candidate for this position will work remotely and, though location is flexible, will require vetting and final approval prior to offer and/or start.
Security Spec. Sr.:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree
- OR Associates degree with 2 years relevant experience in security (cyber or physical) or NERC-CIP compliance
- OR High School Diploma/GED with 4 years relevant experience in security (cyber or physical) or NERC-CIP compliance
Experience:
- Four or more years of relevant experience in security (cyber or physical) OR NERC-CIP compliance in addition to any experience identified above.
Security Spec. Prin.:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree
- OR Associates degree with 2 years relevant experience in security (cyber or physical) or NERC-CIP compliance
- OR High School Diploma/GED with 4 years relevant experience in security (cyber or physical) or NERC-CIP compliance
Experience:
- Five or more years of relevant experience in security (cyber or physical) or NERC-CIP compliance in addition to any experience identified above.
Additional Requirements :
Licenses/Certifications: IAAP or CISSP or other Security certification preferred
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