Senior Systems Site Reliability Engineer

by | Jun 20, 2024 | Uncategorized

About the Role

Sr. Systems Site Reliability Engineer

Full time

job requisition id

JR466324

Who is Forcepoint?

Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!

The ideal candidate will be Dallas based (for a hybrid role) & have a broad background spanning both applications and infrastructure. They will have direct experience with multiple coding language, core SRE practices & methodologies.

Open to US Remote

Essential Functions
Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence, with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions. This individual will be focused on maximum availability, reliability, security, and performance for Forcepoint services.

Requirements:

  • Designs and Maintains secure, scalable, and highly available architectures for On-Prem and Cloud Hosted environments
  • Fully understands Agile Systems Engineering practices
  • Strong understanding of cloud-based architecture and cloud operations. Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services and/or equivalent public cloud technology
  • Experience in administration/build/management of Linux systems
  • Foundational understanding of Infrastructure and Platform Technology stacks
  • Strong understanding of Networking concepts and theories, such as different protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, routing protocols, etc), VLAN configuration, DNS, OSI layers, and load balancing
  • Understanding of security architecture and certificate management
  • Working knowledge of Infrastructure and Application monitoring platforms such as Grafana Cloud, Solarwinds, NewRelic, DataDog etc.
  • Working knowledge of Incident Response and Alerting platforms such as PagerDuty, Opsgenie, XMatters etc.
  • Understanding of the core DevOps practices (CI/CD pipeline, release management etc.)
  • Ability to write code using any one modern programming language (Python, JavaScript, Ruby etc.). Additional scripting skills are preferred
  • Configuration management platform understanding and experience (Chef/Puppet/Ansible)
  • Prior experience in Cloud management automation tools (Terraform/CloudFormation etc.) is crucial
  • Experience with source code management software and API automation is crucial
  • Cloud certifications or equivalent experience is highly regarded
  • Service availability oriented mindset with a pro-active approach to problem solving. An ideal candidate should be able to develop automated solutions to prevent recurring problems
  • Possesses the ability and willingness to challenge the status-quo and optimize current procedures and processes
  • Creates flowcharts, diagrams, and other documentation
  • Knowledge of Container tools Docker/ Kubernetes,
  • Benchmarks applications and services performance and design scalable systems and APIs
  • Must have strong Linux experience supporting production systems
  • Additional Qualification:
  • Expertise in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
  • Understanding of Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond, taking in system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols along the way
  • Good knowledge of virtualization technologies and container technologies
  • Experience with containers and HA clusters; experience with Docker and Amazon ECS /Kubernetes/ Mesosphere/Docker Swarm a plus VMware certification is preferred.
  • Proficient Knowledge or Application of Agile/Scaled Agile: Familiarity with agile methodologies (such as Scrum or Lean) and experience in applying them to IT development or project management. Understanding of scaled agile frameworks (SAFe) is a plus.

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Senior Product Designer

by | Jun 20, 2024 | Uncategorized

About the Role

Title: Senior Product Designer

(Remote)

Location: Remote – US

Type: Full-time

Workplace: remote

Category: Product and Design

Job Description:

EMPOWER OVERVIEW

Empower is a high-growth financial technology company on a mission to expand access to fair credit to give anyone in the world the opportunity to improve their financial security and mobility. We dream up and launch one-of-a-kind features that help our members get money instantly whenever they need it, save for the future, and rewrite their financial story. Our members see Empower Cash Advance as a life-saver, Empower Automatic Savings as a game-changer, and the new Empower Thrive line of credit as a lifeline to low-cost borrowing and the only practical path to building good credit.

Empower is backed by Sequoia Capital, Blisce, and Icon Ventures. Are we the next great place to grow your impact and accelerate your career? We think so:

Inc. ranked Empower #56 in the 2023 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US (#55 in 2022). Forbes put Empower on its 2023 list of America’s Best Startup Employers. Fast Company recognized the new Empower Thrive line of credit in their 2022 list of the Next Big Things in Tech.

THE EMPOWER WAY

  • Great Expectations: We come up with bold, audacious goals for ourselves and go all out for impact
  • Owner Mindset: We give every employee latitude to act independently, make smart choices, and move the business forward
  • Spirited Debate: We love skeptics and seek counter opinions to challenge our personal assumptions and expand our view
  • Customer Obsession: We listen to understand, empathize, and create a memorable, rewarding experience for our community
  • Inclusive Collaboration: We believe diverse teams make the best decisions, and we strive to give diverse voices a seat at the table
  • No Jerks Allowed: We value our relationships and take the time to build trust and connection and communicate respectfully

WHAT EMPOWER OFFERS

  • Competitive salary
  • Generous equity package
  • Full healthcare and dental benefits
  • Technology expense reimbursement
  • Work from anywhere

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Product Designer at Empower, you’ll be integral to the entire design process. Our Product Designers are customer-centric and collaborate closely with other designers, product managers, and engineers to bring innovative ideas to life, ensuring our products positively impact our customers’ financial lives.

Successful Senior Product Designers are ambitious and relentlessly pursue excellence. Design thinking is at the core of their creative process. They push boundaries and innovate, applying design thinking principles to solve complex problems and create user-centered solutions. This involves empathizing with users, defining clear and actionable insights, ideating on potential solutions, prototyping, and rigorously testing their designs to ensure they meet the highest standards. Their ambition drives them to continuously improve and refine their skills, staying ahead of industry trends and delivering exceptional value through thoughtful, well-crafted design.

Empower is a remote-first company. We drive connectivity through regular company offsites. Travel for company offsites is expected at a minimum 2 times a year.

Qualifications

  • 4-5+ years of work experience in product design, visual design, UI/UX and mobile app design
  • Own design projects across the entire product lifecycle and iterations that follow
  • Work closely with our product, engineering, and ops teams to find visually appealing and practical solutions to business problems
  • Influence and help shape the design culture at Empower
  • Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product’s User Experience and execution based on customer needs
  • Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and logical structuring abilities
  • An excellent portfolio that demonstrates love and care for their craft (Please submit your portfolio)
  • Proven experience building high-quality consumer-facing mobile products
  • Experience quickly iterating and building prototypes
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Expert level skills in Figma or Sketch
  • Relevant fintech experience is a plus

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IT Client Platform Engineer – Linux Systems Development

by | Jun 19, 2024 | Uncategorized

About the Role

Title: IT Client Platform Engineer – Linux Systems Development

Location: Hybrid or Remote

Job Description:

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!

Locations, Remote US
About the department

You will be joining a team of Client Platform Engineers dedicated to delivering enterprise-level client platform services, development, support, and client enablement for a globally distributed user base. Our team is committed to providing highly resilient and observable services while minimizing manual tasks. We prioritize delivering a positive customer service experience and enhancing user satisfaction.
What you’ll do

We are seeking an IT Client Platform Engineer with a focus on Linux management and security to ensure a seamless End User Computing (EUC) experience. In this role, you will address complex hardware, software, and security challenges, collaborating closely with the Enterprise Security, Engineering, and IT Operations teams to resolve security, operational, and user experience issues on a global scale.

  • Solve complex Linux OS configuration problems
  • Provide design, implementation and operational support for the Linux End User Computing (EUC) Platform
  • Seek guidance from the team when needed
  • Be flexible and available for after hours support
  • Assist the team with macOS, Windows, and Linux platform management
  • Provide thoughtful feedback on asks and requirements for new integrations
  • Work collaboratively across geographical and team boundaries to solve problems
  • Work in a team environment
  • Create and update technical documentation
  • Help make your team and cohort teams lives better

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

  • 2+ years of proven work experience in a systems administration role
  • 2+ years of proven work experience in a systems integration role
  • Hands-on experience with Windows/Linux/Mac OS management platforms
  • Hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Python, Golang, and/or Rust
  • Good understanding of computer systems, mobile devices management platforms and software development best practices
  • Ability to perform root cause analysis on deployment failures and implement solutions
  • Experience with serverless application development, observation, and deployment methods
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, DevOps, and Agile methodologies
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
  • Ability to provide step-by-step technical guidance, both written and verbal
  • BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or relevant field or equivalent experience

Bonus Points

  • Experience with Jamf Pro, Microsoft Intune, or Ubuntu Landscape
  • Experience with Ansible and Linux system administration
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks
  • Experience working in the technology/software development industry
  • Experience working in a Service Desk, Help Desk, or Call Center environment
  • Experience developing for Platform as a Service development teams
  • AWS Technical Certifications
  • Microsoft Azure Technical Certifications
  • Google Cloud Technical Certifications
  • Agile Certification

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Senior Fullstack Engineer

by | Jun 19, 2024 | Uncategorized

About the Role

Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer (React.js & Next.js)

Location: Remote

Job Description:

HELLO. We’re Whitespectre. Technologists who create exceptional software. The technology we build fuels growth for our client partners – from ambitious scale-ups to industry leaders – and touches millions of users every day. Our partnerships last for years, built on outstanding results, quality, and long-term success.

What We Do

Proudly remote-first for over 10 years, we work in fast-moving, cross-functional agile pods to solve interesting technical challenges and deliver products that drive real impact. We’re 70+ people, across engineering & product, thriving in an environment that prioritizes people and their careers – that’s why so many team members stay with us year after year.

The Role

Senior Engineers at Whitespectre are sharp technical experts who can think like product owners. They’re a driving force within our multidisciplinary teams, collaborating with product managers & designers. They follow our agile 2-week sprint methodology incrementally build and release new functionality, while maintaining close alignment with all stakeholders. They stay up to date with the latest technology trends as part of the collective. The majority of our projects involve building greenfield applications and our delivery teams typically own products end to end – your thinking and contribution make a big impact!

You can read more about life in our JavaScript engineering team in the posts by our Senior Engineer, Eneko.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work with senior technical stakeholders to design and implement robust backend and frontend solutions.
  • Advocate for code quality and rapid business value, while creating exceptional software and user experiences
  • Drive architecture and implementation decisions, getting hands-on with code to bring features to life, squash bugs, while consistently keeping tech debt in check.
  • Mentor and guide other engineers to develop & grow.
  • Go outside core expertise, strengthen skills with other technologies and learn more by solving problems that AI coding tools don’t immediately solve.
  • Work with CI/CD, AWS, and Github workflows for automated and efficient releases.
  • Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communications skills to guide stakeholders through architecture decisions and demonstrate the value of the technical work that’s been completed by the team.
  • Work with a significant crossover with our core hours: 11am – 7pm Central European Time.

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Director of Publishing

by | Jun 19, 2024 | Uncategorized

About the Role

Title: Director of Publishing

Job Description: **”We enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere.** “

FranklinCovey (NYSE: FC) is the workplace of choice for _Achievers with Heart_ . We are one of the largest and most trusted leadership companies in the world, with directly owned and licensee partner offices in over 160 countries and territories. With more than 2,000 global associates, FranklinCovey transforms organizations by partnering with clients to build leaders, teams, and cultures that get breakthrough results through collective action. Our services and products are primarily delivered through our subscription offerings, which are comprised of the FranklinCovey All Access Pass , which is primarily sold through our Enterprise Division, and the _Leader_ _in Me_ membership, which is designed specifically for our Education Division. Enterprise clients include _Fortune 100_ ,? _Fortune 500_ , thousands of small and mid-sized businesses, and numerous government entities. FranklinCovey Education has shared our programs, books, and content with thousands of public and private primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools and institutions.

To learn more, visit franklincovey.com .

**Title:** Director, Publishing

**Division & Department:** Corporate Book Development

**Status:** Full-Time Exempt

**Reports to:** EVP, Market & Customer Intelligence; Publishing

**Location:** Remote – Anywhere in the contiguous US

**Job Summary**

With over 50 million books sold, Publishing plays a vital part in FranklinCovey’s business and mission-driven impact on the world. The Director of Publishing is a key member of the publishing team who leads the book development process and ensures that our books are delivered at the highest level of quality.

Your primary responsibilities will be to manage and coordinate multiple concurrent book development projects across divisions and with a variety of different stakeholders, work with agents to develop publisher proposals and contracts, negotiate and manage certain non-English publishing rights, collaborate with product and marketing teams to ensure content consistency and successful book launches, and manage book development budgets along with the overall performance of the Publishing cost center. Your organizational skills, collaborative leadership, and publishing industry expertise will be essential in achieving our company’s media publishing goals and maximizing our brand’s visibility and impact worldwide.

**Essential Job Functions**

+ _Production Management_

+ Oversee and coordinate the entire manuscript development process, for several manuscripts at a time, working in partnership with FranklinCovey executives and leaders, authors, internal and external development partners, and external publishers as appropriate.

+ Hire and manage external vendors/freelancers as needed to complement internal production resources (writers, designers, etc.)

+ Mange timelines, budgets, and schedules.

+ _Proposal and Contract Development; Non-English Rights Management_

+ Work in partnership with our literary agencies and other stakeholders to develop book proposals and contracts with publishers.

+ Act as an internal literary agent and facilitate direct contracts with local publishers for certain non-English global markets.

+ _Collaboration with Product and Marketing Teams_

+ Work with FranklinCovey product teams during the development process to ensure appropriate connections are made between the book and the product.

+ Work with and coordinates with the Marketing Team prior to and throughout the book launch process to ensure maximum distribution and impact, as well as to support the continued sales of backlisted books.

+ Provide input to Executive leadership on overall book strategy and content.

+ _Cost Center Manager_

+ Manage the overall books development budget for FranklinCovey.

+ Manage royalty collection and royalty distribution to authors.

+ Prepare regular performance reports on book sales, royalties, etc.

**Basic Qualifications**

+ BS/BA in Journalism, Communications, Media Studies, Marketing, or a related field.

+ 7+ years of experience in media publishing, content creation, or related fields.

+ 5+ years in team/project leadership or management roles.

**Preferred Skills & Experience**

+ Master’s degree

+ Strong project management skills, including budgeting and preparing financial reports.

+ Very capable in building high-trust, collaborative relationships to move book development projects forward.

+ In-depth knowledge of industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in media publishing and content marketing.

+ An understanding of media platforms, content distribution strategies, and audience behavior across different regions and cultures.

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