Founded over the fall of 2016 by Tech entrepreneur Amir Mansour, BlackSwan is a fantastically fast-growing startup at the cutting edge of e-commerce and Ad Tech. BlackSwan is now exiting stealth mode and further consolidating its leadership position on the market.

This is where you come in…

Responsibilities

• Enhance our scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant, secure architecture on AWS
• Automate the build and management of cloud infrastructure using AWS native tools, open source tools, and third party products.
• Work closely with the development team to deliver the platform with a focus on optimizing the AWS environment for availability, performance, cost, automation and time to implementation.
• Provide input on design, implementation, operations, user guides, and training materials for the AWS environment.
• Setup/Managing network access
• Define metrics derived from AWS environment data. Review metrics, monitoring and logs including identification of key correlations. Direct performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Provide support and training for staff as required.
• Reviews and provides input to AWS policies and standard operating procedures.

Technical Requirements

• Competency in core AWS services EC2, S3, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM, SNS and more.
• Relational database technologies (Postgres preferred)
• Strong knowledge of security architectures across infrastructure and applications including encryption techniques along with an understanding of AWS IAM, role based access controls, network ACLS, and Security Groups.
• Linux/Unix and/or Windows administration
• Performance tuning, including load balancing, web servers, content delivery networks, caching
• Auto-scaling and distributed architectures
• Networking with VPC/VPN
• Infrastructure monitoring and alerting with SNS
• Cloud migration/replication techniques
• In-depth knowledge of AWS Pricing model
• Strong knowledge of DevOps development methodologies along with CI/CD frameworks.
• Configuration and automation tools, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Salt.
• Source code management tools such as Git and Subversion

Preferences will be given to candidates who have

– AWS Certification

– AWS Lambda

– AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config

– Ruby

Perks

• Extremely Competitive package with profit sharing / bonus plan.
• Stock Options eligibility for star performer.
• Flexible work schedules
• Endless opportunity for personal / professional growth
• Work on cutting edge technologies