DevOps Director
OJO envisions a world where everyone has what they need to own a home. We know that homeownership is one of life’s most complex decisions and access to trusted advice and expertise can be the difference-maker. Through the fusion of machine intelligence and human expertise, we meet people wherever they are in their home journey to provide deeply personalized guidance and support.
Our intuitive technology learns each individual’s needs and preferences to provide a tailored experience whether they’re buying, selling, or managing their home as an asset. We then help them to move forward when the time’s right — with support, knowledge, and confidence.
From our network of top-rated agents we’ll match homebuyers and sellers with the expert who can best support their specific journey. We introduce agents and loan officers to consumers at just the right time, and underpin the connection with tools and insights to ensure a best-in-class experience.
As part of our team, you’ll help create the experiences that help level the playing field in real estate, so that all people — regardless of race, class, or gender — can experience the gateway to wealth and the security that home provides.
Movoto by OJO Real Estate is the fastest growing top 5 residential real estate site used by 650,000 daily users looking to buy or sell their home. We are seeking a Director of DevOps, who has a passion for technology to help us add new exciting features to our extremely successful real estate platform. As a Director of DevOps, you will be a key player in helping us lead our IT Operations initiatives focused on improving end-to-end system performance, scalability, reliability while managing costs to support our consumer website. This role will bring scale, opportunities to solve unique problems and the ability to drive significant outcomes for the organization.
What you'll do:
- Work with your fellow engineers to define deployment, configuration and monitoring requirements
- Provide technical leadership to a team of engineers located globally
- Plan, build, configure, and optimize private and public cloud infrastructure for high performance, scalable and reliable consumer website
- Lead root cause analysis and collaborate with Engineering to build instrumentation into our stack to understand real-time performance characteristics
- Lead troubleshooting efforts with production/non-production systems
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call team rotation
- Collaborate with the Product Management team to understand performance and availability requirements
What we need from you:
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering
- 2+ years of technical leadership experience
- Expertise in architecting, designing, troubleshooting and improving highly scalable and high-performing large web sites (> 10 million visitors per month)
- Ability to lead teams and do technical deep dives into infrastructure to deliver highly available services
- Demonstrated expertise in Cloud Computing services (e.g., Amazon AWS, and Docker)
- Knowledgeable in managing MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Elastic Search, and Memcache
- Ability to install, configure and maintain Linux hosts and popular open-source applications such as Nginx, Apache HTTPd, Apache Tomcat, and Postfix
- Prior experience using datacenter automation tools such as OpenStack, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, ELK, and Zabbix.
- Experience in automating system administration tasks with scripting tools such as Python or shell is preferred
- Proficient in analyzing and troubleshooting operating system, networking, configuration and performance problems
- Fundamental understanding of Internet networking protocols: TCP/IP, TLS, DNS, HTTP, SMTP
- Clear communication with both technical and non-technical staff
With offices all over the world, our award-winning work environments blend meaningful impact and employee satisfaction. We have offices in Austin, Texas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; San Mateo, California; Chicago, Illinois; Toronto, Ontario; and Vieux Fort, St. Lucia.
OJO has received multiple workplace awards, including Fortune Best Workplaces in Technology, Inc. Best Workplaces, and Austin Business Journal’s Best Places to Work. Every person at OJO has a significant impact on our evolving product, team, and culture, which is why we hire the best technical, creative, and operational minds.
Virtual Life at OJO
At OJO, we care and listen deeply to the needs of our team to ensure they are comfortable and have the necessary tools to be productive while working from home during the pandemic. We strive to allow a balance and separation between home and work life, and provide support and a flexible working schedule so that employees are able to focus on what’s important to them. The leadership team at OJO has decided that we will work from home indefinitely. As safety allows, offices will open and employees will have the option of accessing them to work. We will continue to monitor and respond to COVID-19 proactively, while adhering to safety precautions provided by medical leadership.
OJO is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.