by Ronald Barron | Nov 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Stitch Fix
About the Role
As the Network Administrator, you will help transform the growing IT team at Stitch Fix, while building your own skills and creating an amazing experience for your colleagues. You will support the day-to-day network operations of our various physical sites, build documentation, and emphasize superior support models. You will support our downtown San Francisco headquarters and our various remote offices, distribution centers, engineers, and stylists. Stitch Fix is primarily a Cisco Meraki network environment.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will
- Primarily work with cloud-based Cisco Meraki Dashboard for network configuration.
- Remotely support on-site IT specialists and end-users in multiple locations nationwide, responding to escalations and automated alerts.
- Manage new facility network builds.
- Configure and set up new and existing Cisco Meraki MX security appliances, MS switches, and MR wireless access points.
- Establish timelines and best practices to validate and deploy network firmware releases.
- Evaluate and implement remote network monitoring tools and alerting thresholds, such as AppNeta or Thousand Eyes
- Manage ISP connectivity and contract relationships, including failover and high network availability.
- Implement and maintain IPsec VPN technologies site-to-site and client VPN.
- Maintain network-connected hardware and services, such as VOIP and time clock systems.
- Help keep our IT tickets fresh and alive using Freshservice, other experience welcome.
- Assist with maintaining accurate inventory, asset tracking, and change management.
- Show a positive outlook (not Outlook) and humor by making IT nothing less than an immersive, atypical experience for all of our co-workers.
- Familiar with productivity SaaS platforms like GSuite, OneLogin, Slack, Box, Freshservice, etc
- Mentor and assist co-workers and vendors for continuity of policies and procedures instituted by our team.
- Be a part of our rotating on-call support for cloud application and network related issues.
You may also
- Utilize log management tools like DataDog or Splunk to diagnose network issues and monitor network health.
- Manage authentication to RADIUS and other systems integrated with the OneLogin directory.
- Assist with asset tracking and physical inventory of network and related hardware.
- Determine the network hardware lifecycle and evaluate new products and technologies.
- Provide network support for AV systems LifeSize, BlueJeans, Zoom, DialPad, and EventBoard functioning well and assist in running larger all-hands style meetings.
We’re excited about you because
- You have at least 3-5 years of experience with Cisco Meraki networks in multiple distributed physical locations.
- You have experience in drafting and maintaining technical documentation.
- Your experience includes at least 5+ years of administering large corporate networks.
- You understand and troubleshoot the essentials of wired and wireless connectivity.
- You have contributed to the deployment of VLANs, traffic shaping, switch and link aggregation, and strong resilient networks.
- You have experience with managing network-dependent applications such as VOIP and video conferencing systems.
- You interact with local and remote IT resources as your eyes and hands.
- You communicate clearly and effectively when writing ticket updates to onsite and remote users.
- You thrive in high-volume, fast-paced, and feedback-driven environments.
- You’re highly self-motivated, have a stellar work ethic and you’re looking for the right company to support your growth.
- You are able to occasionally travel between our various US and UK sites.
- Your knowledge and personal interactions make you approachable by all levels of co-workers.
- Above all else, you are bright, kind, and goal-oriented.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Karat
Our Data Science team is committed to partnering in exploratory data analysis, conducting experimentation, and building and automating data-driven product features. We conduct research and development needed to make technical interviews more predictive. Working on the Data Science team, you will shape the future for the intelligence and efficiency of our product.
What you will do
As a Data Scientist at Karat, you will collaborate with Data Analysts, Data Engineers, and Software Engineers to design, implement, and scale our data processing and modeling platforms. You will be responsible for determining the feasibility of producing predictive models from available data to meet specified product requirements.
Karat’s HQ is based in Seattle, Washington, but we are open to remote candidates for this role (within the U.S.). Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.
- Identify experimentation, automation and efficiency needs for Karat’s business and product teams, understanding their goals and metrics in order to conduct research to identify potential solutions.
- Design, build, and deploy efficient and reliable cloud-based data modeling pipelines to deliver automation and predictive modeling services.
- Help refine our interview data processes to increase the signal captured in every minute of our interviews and maximize the value provided to our customers.
- Investigate new data sources and methods for combining multiple data sources to support new types of data analysis, modeling and new product features
- Identify methods for automating existing manual business processes
- Help manage and advance our experimentation platform to support testing new features and making intelligent product development decisions
- Protect Karat’s data processes against quality issues. Design and develop data modeling performance monitoring.
- Support our engineering teams by reviewing code and designs as-needed
- Nurture data conversations within Karat by educating teammates about data science and machine learning.
The experience you will bring
- 5-7+ years of tech industry experience in data science, machine learning, software engineering, or other related roles
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Engineering, a natural science or equivalent quantitative subject (or equivalent experience) preferred
- Proven experience applying machine learning to solve business prediction and automation challenges
- Strong data analysis and scientific thinking skills
- Experience with Python and related data science and machine learning libraries a plus
- Significant experience with relational databases with a strong knowledge of SQL and data modeling best principles
- Experience with data visualization and presentation, data analytics and BI tools, and cloud services
- Experience with and a knack for communicating technical work to partners
- Professional familiarity with marketplaces solving problems at the intersection of supply and demand a plus
Benefits of joining Karat
Karat strives to offer everything you need to best support you today, tomorrow, and beyond. We’re proud of our current offerings, and highlight some of our team’s favorites below. There are more, just feel free to ask!
Compensation / Time Off:
- Highly competitive salary and stock options
- Generous paid PTO (see below) and Sick Leave (10 days per year)
- Flexible Time Off Policy for salaried positions
- Three weeks accrued per year for hourly positions
- Parental Leave (12 weeks paid with transition back to work in part-time capacity)
- 18 paid Company Holidays for 2021
Benefits / Wellness:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance via Cigna or Kaiser (for CA-based employees)
- 100% premium covered for employees
- 70% premium covered for dependents
- FSA, STD, LTD, Standard Life Insurance, and Optional Life Insurance
- Mental Wellness offerings such as Calm, Happify, Talkspace, Modern Health, and more
- $150 per month contribution to miscellaneous benefit/wellness of employee’s choice
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Robert Half International
Description
Robert Half is searching for a Database Administrator for a Legal client based out of Seattle, Washington. The primary responsibilities of the Database Administrator is for the implementation, configuration, maintenance of mission-critical SQL Server databases.
Additionally, this role will ensure the availability and consistent performance of various applications and work with software developers to design databases both on-premises and in the cloud. This is a long-term contract to full-time position that is 100% remote.
Preference given to candidates located in Seattle, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, Boise, Denver, Madison, New York, San Francisco, Phoenix, San Diego, and Washington D.C.
What you get to do every day
- Create and manage SQL Server databases.
- Install, configure and maintain database servers and processes.
- Monitor the health and performance of database servers.
- Ensure high levels of performance, availability, recoverability, and security.
- Analyze, diagnose, and correct performance issues and server faults.
- Design, implement, and maintain T-SQL Scripts for processing data.
- Design, implement, and maintain SSIS packages as needed to move and process data between systems.
- Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
- Assist software engineers with query tuning and schema refinement.
- Perform routine maintenance.
- Support release deployment activities, server updates, and application updates during change-management windows after hours.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- At least 2+ years as a Database Administrator
- Experience performance tuning and optimizing SQL server
- Strong MS SQL DBA skills – High Availability environment preferred
- Strong SQL Integration skills – SSIS
- Strong SSRS skills
- Some Azure SQL or other cloud experience (including basic experience with PowerShell)
- Nice to have: Experience doing integration work with Workday
- Nice to have: Legal industry experience
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Theorem.co
WHAT YOU LL DO
As Experienced Polyglot Engineer you will build greenfield, scalable web platforms. In addition to providing input on app architecture, you will create and review pull requests daily and engage with internal teams and directly with clients with an agile environment. You will work in small teams with a product manager, designers and other engineers to scope design and implement features.
WHO YOU ARE
You are a passionate technical full stack engineer with the discipline to create and finish projects. You do not shy away from exploring new languages and technical tools, acquiring the skills you need, to get a job done. You have opinions about your favorite open source projects, or perhaps you have contributed to some or started one of your own. You are a communicator. Whether you are raising the flag within an implementation or sharing your favorite playlist in Slack, you will not shy away from letting your voice be heard.
Your Responsibilities As Experienced Polyglot Engineer at Theorem
- Design and build scalable web services and applications using modern technologies
- Design and build highly-usable web applications and experiences using modern technologies
- Engage daily with your distributed, remote engineering team working on different layers of the applications and infrastructure
- Collaborate with product designers and clients to clarify requirements, prototype functionality and build products
- Plan, estimate and prioritize work in a remote, distributed team environment
- Guide our clients in best practices in order to achieve great project success
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of professional engineering experience
- Strong server-side development experience using NodeJS
- Strong frontend development experience using modern technologies (TypeScript, React, etc.)
- Strong understanding of what it takes to effectively connect backend and frontend technology
- Good knowledge of design and architectural patterns and development best practices
- Previous experience building scalable services
- Strong RDBMS experience (schema design, best practices, tuning and debugging)
- Previous remote work experience
- Previous experience collaborating on highly distributed teams
- Strong ability to communicate, collaborate, and empathize with others
- Consulting experience
- Recent experience in a high-performing agile and/or lean environment, eg. Scrum, XP, Kanban, others.
- Possess a strong and reliable internet connection.
Bonus Points (But Not Required)
- Experience with modern Microsoft technologies (C#, .NET, Azure)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker and Kubernetes)
- Experience with deploying into and managing cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)
- Proficiency using 2 or more other programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, or other
You Will Be Successful When
- You are able to hit the ground running within your area of expertise and are not afraid of challenges outside of it
- You thrive on collaborating with other team members and across disciplines
- You are happy to receive feedback and see it as an opportunity for reflection and improvement
- You are always learning – Whether you are learning to help your team and customer work through new concepts and technology You are astute, you know when to push an issue and when to let things lie
- You are friendly – you reach out to your teammates even if they aren t on your project team
- You can work through ambiguity – you aren t shy about asking questions to gain clarity
- You are entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial – always on the lookout for new opportunities to improve the company externally and internally
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: GitHub
GitHub is seeking a Security Solutions Architect for our Professional Services team. They focus on helping our customers improve the lives of developers working on the GitHub platform. As a Security Solutions Architect you will have a direct impact on the security of some of the world’s largest code bases and the most commonly used applications. You will be a trusted consultant to the world’s leading companies to assist them in transforming how they approach security in their software delivery life cycle. You will shape how they integrate security throughout their software delivery lifecycle. You will create a vision for these customers on how they can improve, and work closely with their stakeholders and teams to implement these changes.
For this role, you can expect to spend about 60% of your time with customers on high-level details and driving Advanced Security adoption. The rest of the time is likely split between CodeQL and Advanced Security deployment.
Responsibilities
- Be a trusted advisor for our customers on all aspects of GitHub Advanced Security
- Share expertise on CodeQL, both from a language and deployment perspective
- Serve as the primary owner of customer deliverables over long-term engagements
- Provide technical contribution and facilitate development with the broader Services Advanced Security team
- Participation in customer scoping calls throught the customer’s journey, with ongoing, recurring collaboration with customers
- Frequent calibration of customer success criteria and providing proactive, creative attention on their priorities
- Help customers understand and quantify value from Advanced Security
- Collaborate with team members across GitHub, providing valuable insights from the field on how we can improve our products
Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to connect with people, lead client projects, and help clients solve problems with GitHub
- Strong ability to collaboratively and optimistically handle client expectations and project scope during all stages of a client engagement
- Strong knowledge of secure coding practices and common types of vulnerability
- Experience with common devops tools, CI/CD, builds, etc.
- Experience of code analysis (static/dynamic), dependency scanning, or other security automation in a DevOps environemnt
- Experience in mentoring other engineers and disseminating complex technical ideas and processes
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- An ability to persuade customers to make hard, but worthwhile decisions
- An ability to see the tradeoffs of technical solutions and make recommendations to customers
- A desire to help others, and to collaborate with both customers and GitHub team members
- A growth mentality, and a passion for discovering new technologies
Who We Are:
GitHub is the developer company. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, and to create the world’s most important technologies. We foster a collaborative community that can come together as individuals and in teams to create the future of software and make a difference in the world.
Leadership Principles:
Customer Obsessed – Trust by Default – Ship to Learn – Own the Outcome – Growth Mindset – Global Product, Global Team – Anything is Possible – Practice Kindness
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