About Us:
Zignal Labs is a fast-growing big data analytics start-up company, providing a unique social and digital media intelligence platform and real-time monitoring service for corporations, PR firms, political organizations, and government entities.
The ideal candidate will be a top-notch, hands-on engineering leader who thrives on delivering world-class systems and has a proven history of running a 24X7 technical operation in the cloud at scale. The successful candidate will be keen to learn new and emerging technologies; share their experience; and exploit the emergent Cloud and Big Data offerings to the maximum benefit of our business and our customers.
Tech Stack:
- Languages: Scala/Java/Node.js
- Distributed Processing: Apache Storm, Kafka, Hadoop (Hive, Spark, Shark)
- Datastores: MongoDB, Redis
- Text search: Elasticsearch and Solr
- Dev Ops: Git, Puppet and Ansible, TeamCity, Nagios, Logstash, Kibana
- Cloud Services: Amazon EC2, S3, Elastic MapReduce
What You Will Be Doing:
- Collaborate with CTO, VP of Engineering and Architects to design, build and support web-scale social and digital media content ingestion and real-time analytics
- Maintain a 24x7 production cloud based infrastructure supporting the Zignal Labs application. Establish uptime metrics and devise ways to improve them.
- Manage a team of dev / ops engineers; create an internal environment of teamwork, sharing, and enthusiasm; a team on a mission. Be a role model, a mentor and a coach
- Effective communication among the organization on system performance (both good and bad)
- Model infrastructure growth and create plans for meeting that growth
- Support product development through scripts and tools writing
- Support QA function by enabling automated testing, continuous builds and the release process
- Nurture and support a strong engineering culture: customer focus; excellent technology; high quality implementations; self-motivated innovation and problem-solving