DevOps Manager

Role Description

The Bark Team is looking for a hands-on Devops Manager. You’ll be responsible for the uptime, performance and stability of our platform. You’ll employ continuous integration and release management practices ensuring timely and stable releases. You’ll be instrumental in designing and operating our service monitoring and disaster recovery strategy. You’ll work closely with our whole team including engineering, product management and QA to ensure the best experience for our customers.

The successful candidate will be highly organised, innovative and resourceful with a flare for designing and operating best in class systems processes. You’ll enjoy coming up with smart solutions to interesting problems, anal about operating them efficiently and passionate about ensuring the best service for our customers.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Proven full-ownership role of a company’s entire service within a fast, growth, dynamic environment
• 5+ experience in predominantly Linux based production environments (ideally Ubuntu or Centos)
• Experience of AWS (EC2, RDS, SQS, Cloudwatch), MySQL, PHP, Python an Node.JS
• Technology agnostic mindset with a proven experience to identify and learn new systems, languages and frameworks
• Proven experience contributing to or designing architecture
• Ownership of disaster recovery and backup strategies, with particular experience of ensuring availability and integrity of MYSQL
• Strong experience with high volume emailing and strategies for ensuring high deliverability
• Strong leadership & organization skills
• Experience working directly with developers and sysadmins, reviewing code and analysing data
• Ability to create, implement, and adhere to process and instil a culture of responsibility and pride in service quality
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to backup assumptions, recommendations and drive actions
• Business quality written and communication skills

We are tech focussed and data driven, and we regularly push the envelope with exciting engineering challenges. Outside our core stack you'll also find us working with machine learning, geospatial searches, turk-like task automation and much more . We're always aiming to lead the field in scalability and uptime, email deliverability and scraping technology.

It's a great time to join Bark - we have found product market fit, a successful business model, and have built out the necessary tools to scale. We’re looking for hungry, smart individuals to take on huge areas of responsibility in the company and the potential to grow with us.