Small, fast paced development team in San Diego is looking for an experienced contract or part-time Web Developer with excellent Linux skills.
Responsibilities: * Install and configure Linux servers, monitoring tools, CentOS, Ubuntu, * Setup and maintain a multi-stage deployment and version control environment, * Setup and configure a production database, * Perform scheduled system monitoring, availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, * Maintain the integrity and security of application servers as needed via performance tuning, updates, and resource optimization. Ideal candidates have the following skill set: * Strong Linux Skills, * 5+ years solid Ruby on Rails experience, * Solid experience with multi-server enterprise environment/ deployments (e.g. Capistrano), * Experience building HA and failover scenarios, load balanced environments, * Experience with Passenger Phusion (mod_rails) and Rack, * PostgreSQL skills, including the ability to setup and maintain a production database for a working RoR application, * Significant experience with Git version control system, * Experience with monitoring tools (Monit, New Relic, pgFouine, etc.), * Knowledge of bash and Perl/Python/Ruby shell scripting, * Ability to work closely and collaboratively with a small team of backend developers, * Bachelor degree, with a technical major, such as Computer Science/IS or equivalent experience, Definite nice-to-haves: * Web development experience especially with Rails, * Practical experience with Apache, nginx and/or other type of Linux server administration experience, * Experience in migrating a rails 2 app to a rails 3 app, * Familiarity with JavaScript, and client-side development experience, using jQuery or similar. This is an opportunity to work remotely, but in case of disaster, candidate must be available shortly to "login and recover". Pay rate is based on experience and reliability. Please submit your resume to [email protected] Direct applicants only. -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
