System Administrator

ABOUT PERFORMLINE

PerformLine is a leading provider of compliance technology that empowers
leaders with one platform to mitigate regulatory risk across major sales and
marketing channels, including the web, calls, messages, emails, documents,
and social media. PerformLine automates the path to discover, monitor,
mitigate, and report on compliance risks and ensure brand safety. The
PerformLine SaaS platform features full workflow capabilities, real-time
analytics, remediation, monitoring, and archiving, while providing clients
with significant time and cost savings by automating compliance activities
across channels and departments.

Come as you are. PerformLine is an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate
diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable experience
for all.

The tech team at PerformLine is undergoing a period of exponential growth. As
our team grows, we juggle building out new features with high coding
standards with refactoring a large legacy codebase. As part of the team, you
have the opportunity to be involved in some of our biggest infrastructure
decisions.

TECH STACK

Our application is built on AWS and we utilize their offerings like S3, EC2,
and Lambda. Our core systems are written in Python and Golang. For crunching
jobs on the humongous amount of data we store, we use Postgres,
Elasticsearch, Redis, and DynamoDB. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Engineer an incredible experience for developers who are working in Python
and Golang through automation, virtualization, and process improvement
- You will be responsible for the operation and management of our AWS
infrastructure ensuring the system stays accessible and performant for our
clients
- Maintain ongoing monitoring of all systems, applications, as well as
keeping abreast of security advisories for all parts of the platform
- Oversee the design and rollout of a reinvisioned CI/CD pipeline
- Be the primary point of contact for production outages and issues,
delegating and coordinating where appropriate to the team
- You will support projects facilitating web crawling, advanced browser
automation, media transcoding, distributed systems, machine learning,
migration from a monolith to a service-oriented architecture, big data
engineering and more
- Don’t worry, you’ll have help! We have another sysadmin already!

WHAT YOU BRING

- Fluent in Linux systems administration, specifically Ubuntu and/or Debian.
But any distro will do
- Fluent in configuration management systems and best practices as well as a
vision for how systems should be maintained
- Working knowledge of web services and their operation, including
understanding of how TLS, TCP/IP, HTTP, Linux, and code interact to form
highly-available services
- Experience with OpenVPN, Wireguard or other VPN technologies, especially
when deployed in an Amazon VPC environment
- Understanding of continuous integration concepts, and experience working
with developers to create and optimize automated build and deployment systems
and strategies
- Working knowledge of containerization (using Docker/Kubernetes etc.) is a
huge plus
- Experience with Golang and/or Python preferred

WHO YOU ARE

- Seeks out constructive criticism of their work
- Generates lift in the skills of those around them
- Independent troubleshooting skills
- Recognizes the value of boring code and the dangers of unnecessary
complexity
- Demonstrates good judgment and makes trade-offs explicit when making
decisions
- Is empathetic and can collaborate with peers & stakeholders to deliver
- Positive can-do attitude with the ability to thrive amidst ambiguity as
needed
- Default to thoughtful, humble, empathetic, respectful, and calm
communication
- Good or bad, XKCD 705 speaks to your soul but you wish it was gender
neutral

This is only intended to be advertised in areas where it complies to state
and local law.

PerformLine participates in E-Verify.

Proof of covid vaccination or an approved exemption is required within 30
days of offer.