About Us:
Zignal Labs's platform combines media monitoring and business intelligence to drive comprehensive insights in any industry, from corporate communications to financial analysis. Our platform is fully customizable to different use cases, giving our customers the power to make proactive and informed decisions.
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