by Ronald Barron | Nov 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
About KinderCare Education®
KinderCare Education operates more than 1,380 early learning centers, and more than 560 Champions sites, supported by a corporate team of nearly 600 headquarters employees in Portland, Oregon. In 2019, KinderCare Education earned their third Gallup Great Workplace Award – one of only 39 companies worldwide to win this award.
- In neighborhoods with our KinderCare®Learning Centers that offer early childhood education and child care for children six weeks to 12 years old
- At work through KinderCare Education at Work™, family benefits for employers including on-site and near-site early learning centers and back-up care for last-minute child care
- In local schools with our Champions®before and after-school programs.
Job Summary:
As part of our IT Operations team, you are an experienced and highly skilled SQL DBA who maintains, improves, and supports our mission-critical application and reporting databases across the enterprise systems suite. These application and business intelligence DBs are integral to several rapidly growing lines of business as we undertake a roadmap of technical and digital transformation including migration to the Cloud.
Key responsibilities include:
- Manage SQL Server databases supporting critical business applications across multiple application stacks
- Configure and maintain database servers and processes
- Monitor system’s health and performance
- Ensure high levels of performance, availability, sustainability, and security
- Analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time
- Provide suggestions for solutions to deadlocks, performance issues, index optimization, etc
- Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes
- Assist developers with query tuning and schema refinement
- Participate in on-call rotation for critical production system support
- Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours
Qualifications
Key desired skills and experience:
- 3 years of experience as a SQL Server DBA or similar role
- 3 years of experience with MY SQL Server Administration experience (required)
- 3 years of experience with Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO)
- 3 years of experience with backups, restores and recovery models
- 3 years of experience of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server
- Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on company’s success
- Critical thinker and problem-solving skills\
- Excellent organization skills and the ability to achieve results within tight deadlines.
- Positive, results-driven, rational, logical, team player.
- Experience working with remote teams is desirable.
- MCTS, MCITP, and/or MVP certifications a plus
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Stream Companies
Fullthrottle Technologies is a leading Marketing Technology SAAS company focused on delivering cutting-edge applications to our clients including advertising agencies, media companies and brands. Many of our company team members work remotely and our dynamic team is spread across 5 Timezones and 6 Countries.
Our Company is truly location invisible!
We work together via Microsoft Teams and we have daily online team project meetings. Our communications and development platforms are Cloud Based so they can be accessed across the world. Our teams communicate actively online, our team members work co-operatively, yet autonomously, and take ownership of their work projects.
We are seeking a self-directed, motivated, talented SQL Developer to develop PLPG/SQL queries and procedures.
The ideal candidate will have good communication skills, be solution focused and with the ability to deliver in a fast-paced Continuous Development Agile Environment.
You will be responsible for designing databases and ensuring their stability, reliability and performance.
Remote Minimum Requirements.
- You will need a rock-solid high-speed internet connection, fluent written/spoken English and you need to be located within +/- 6 hours of US Eastern Standard Time.
Want to know more? See below!
Responsibilities:
- Implement and maintain database code in the form of stored procedures, scripts, queries, views, triggers, etc.
- Implement effective and maintainable database coding practices that form an architectural foundation.
- Work with product managers to ensure database code meets requirements.
- Work with data analysts to ensure database code is accurately documented.
- Participate as a member in Agile teams, and work with other team members to review user stories, estimate effort to build functionality supporting user stories, and participate in sprint reviews.
- Analyze existing SQL query and PLPG/SQL code for performance improvements.
- Develop functions, SQL statements in PLPG/SQL and stored procedures to maintain business logic.
- Design relational logical data models and their physical schema design.
- Make design enhancements to the database schema, dictionary and normalize data into a consistent schema to accept new data types.
- Refactor existing database models to scale.
- Investigates, troubleshoots and corrects data and user related system errors and ensures data integrity.
- Working knowledge of Data Warehouse (e.g. Athena, Amazon Redshift or similar Data Warehouse technologies) is a plus.
- 2 to 4 years of experience as a SQL Developer or similar role.
- 2+ years of experience of working in a distributed remote technology team a plus.
PERSONAL PROFILE:
We are looking for long-term hires here who fits well into our distributed Continuous Development Agile Scrum team and so the ideal candidates will be:
- Self Directed and Self Motivated with a proven ability to get things done (ESSENTIAL)
- A good communicator who can summarise key deliverables and hit daily deadlines (ESSENTIAL)
- Experience with and thrived in a fast paced Agile / Scrum development environment (++)
- Experienced with and Comfortable with working in Distributed Development Environment with remote colleagues (+)
- A proven Team player
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Skedulo
The Senior Technical Support Specialist role is responsible for the on-going management of customer issues and success. They’re responsible for managing bugs and escalated issues, with the ability to give the customer confidence that their issues will be resolved in a timely manner. They are a part of the ‘Technical Support’ sub-team within the Customer Experience Team, providing technical support expertise and mentorship to other team members. This senior role is the critical front-line link between our Customers and the Engineering and Project Delivery Teams to ensure our Customers are successful and can realize the benefits from their Skedulo implementation.
Responsibilities
Troubleshooting and Customer Communication
- Deliver world-class end to end support for Skedulo customers by being responsive and tailoring each technical response
- Lead with a sense of urgency in triaging
- Help minimize customer churn through education, support, coaching and influencing
- Provide extensive knowledge and experience in the product to resolve issues when liaising with customers and internal team members
- Act as a subject matter expert and mentor for internal troubleshooting methods and tools
- Act as an escalation point for customers to expedite delivery of bug fixes and resolutions
- Liaise directly with customers, including high level customer stakeholders
- Provide leadership as a subject matter expert for Core product bugs and issues, customisation,and CX delivery issues
- Understand and discuss technical issues with engineering/development staff and translate this to layman’s terms for the customer
- Fully understand support SLAs and contracted response/resolution times for both standard support and paid premium tiers
- Administer ticket management systems and support focused tools (Zendesk, and logging tools)
Mentorship and Thought Leadership
- Identify process improvement and drive positive innovation and process change
- Lead and promote incident and problem management processes including Post Incident Reviews and ITIL methodologies
- Mentor other tech support staff and encourage collaboration around process improvement
- Administer ticket management systems and support focused tools (Zendesk, and logging tools)
Internal Product and Team Communication/Collaboration
- Act as a liaison between product management, CX, and the customer
- Develop a complete understanding of the Skedulo products and working knowledge of complementary products and services.
- Mentor staff on process and procedures as well as team communication and collaboration
- Proven ability in creating a culture of inclusivity within a team
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
- Must have at least 5+ year’s previous experience as a Technical Support Specialist in a complex SaaS environment.
- Must have extensive experience in in working with complex Salesforce environments including large scale, multi-tenant production environments
- Must be familiar with API structures and troubleshooting
- Must have an understanding of database structures, complex customized desktop and mobile solutions
- Must have excellent written and spoken English in order to speak with a global customer base
Desired Qualifications
- Proven ability to learn new products, develop technical knowledge, and apply new skills in a high paced environment.
- Working knowledge in Atlassian Suite, JIRA, Confluence and Service Desk.
- A Bachelor’s Degree in software development or engineering is a plus.
- Salesforce Administrator and Developer certifications a big plus
- Prior experience working with offshore and distributed teams
- Enjoys problem solving while learning, developing, and applying new skills along the way.
- Proven teamwork ethic.
Additional Qualifications
- Must have a valid US work visa upon hire to be considered for this position.
- Must be able to work Pacific Time Zone working hours
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Rhino New York LLC
As a Technical Project Manager, you will partner with TechOps, DevOps, Security, Engineering, and business stakeholders to successfully deliver Infrastructure/Security projects. You will apply project management best practices and take a structured approach. You will help to define the role of a Technical Project Manager and help shape the vision of Program Management. You will own the delivery of your projects and ensure regular communication with all stakeholders.
In this role you will:
- Partner with TechOps, DevOps, Security, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams to initiate, plan, execute, control, and close multiple Infrastructure related projects.
- Own delivery of multiple infrastructure/security projects. Examples include rollouts of identity management tools, endpoint management tools, penetration testing, security awareness training, etc.
- Take a structured approach to project management.
- Set project goals and come up with plans to meet those goals.
- Help teams develop and maintain project schedules, estimates, and status updates.
- Manage resources and dependencies for projects.
- Use project management tools to track project performance and schedule adherence.
- Manage issues and risks for projects.
- Provide weekly project status reports.
We’re ideally seeking:
- PMP or PMI-ACP Certification.
- ITIL Certification.
- SAFe certifications a plus.
- 5+ years of experience managing infrastructure projects or software development projects in an Agile environment.
- Knowledge of project management processes, such as Scrum and Agile.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to coordinate with team members/management and explain technical issues.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills to handle any issues that occur during the project.
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation and 401k
- Unlimited PTO to give our employees a little extra R&R when they need it
- Stock option plan to give our employees a direct stake in Rhino’s success
- Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision)
- Remote Work Program to allow for flexibility between home and the office
- Generous Parental Leave to create a family-friendly culture
- Wellness Perks (Gym, Classpass, & Citibike Memberships)
- Commuter Benefits through a Flexible Spending Account
- Fintech Equality Coalition Founding member
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Trafilea
About Trafilea
Trafilea is a global company that builds communities and transformative brands. We own the brands and take care of the entire customer journey, to deliver wow-worthy experiences that influence and empower millions of people globally.
Our culture is fast-paced and dynamic. We are data-driven enthusiasts, passionate about marketing, exponential technologies, and innovation.
We have over 300 hundred employees working around the world, connected by the same purpose and core values. Our support for this new way of working has led to being featured in Forbes and FlexJobs as one of the Top 25 Companies for Remote Workers.
We are looking for dynamic, dedicated, and committed individuals with a strong desire to grow, that can drive the brand forward on its truly exciting journey.
You want to know more about our Brands? Shapermint,Truekind & Empetua
We are looking a Senior Product Designer to join our UX Team! This person is going to be responsible to build world-class e-commerce experiences impossible to ignore. Measure and optimize experiences by improving ease of use and user satisfaction by exploring different approaches to solve end-users’ problems.
Expected Outcomes & Responsibilities
- Gather and evaluate user stories or requirements in collaboration with product managers and developers.
- Unify design language across platforms.
- Design and Create the design system for Shapermint & TrueKind using atomic design.
- Promote the continuous improvements of atoms, molecules, organisms and templates.
- Define the Design and conciliation framework of work for the design & IT department.
- Evangelize the DesignOps culture across the company by communicating new achievements.
- Sketch design ideas using user flows, wine flows and wireframes.
- Design and deliver outstanding prototypes that clearly illustrate how users can navigate different user flows.
- Propose information architecture enhancements for Shapermint & Truekind.
- Prepare and present rough sketches to internal teams and key stakeholders.
- Identify and troubleshoot UX problems by utilizing UX best practices.
- Create Moderated or unmoderated User Tests.
- Continuously Gather qualitative & quantitative data from different teams.
- Iterate prototypes according to user pain points, frustrations and goals.
Requirements:
- 3+ Years of experience as a product designer with a proven record of delivering consumer-grade Applications.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Solid understanding of the user-centered design and interaction design principles.
- Experience creating word-class prototypes from low to high fidelity prototypes.
- Expertise working closely with the development team and marketing team.
- Experience working as part of a product team in an agile environment.
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional design work and the process that led to your decisions.
- Experience defining the DesignOps process inside a company.
- Expertise with design and prototyping software and the facility to learn new tools and methodologies as needed.
- Solid understanding of UX methodologies and how to use them and why.
What We Have to Offer:
- Proximity doesn’t influence productivity. As a globally distributed team, you can live and work wherever you want.
- A rich experience including the opportunity to collaborate with world-class talents. Encouraging transparency and open communication to all.
- A data-driven, dynamic, energetic work environment, full of talented, goal-oriented, and empathetic people working together to grow and develop both as professionals and human beings.
- A safe space to be who you truly are. We embrace and support diversity, equity and work hard every day to keep becoming more inclusive.
- Openness to new ideas and initiatives: You can always join a squad, tribe, or committee, start new ones. Bring your hobbies and passions and transform them into projects!
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