Location: Boston, Ma
URL: http://www.meyouhealth.com
MeYou Health is a start-up company focused on creating fun web and mobile experiences that encourage people to do small actions they can accomplish every day to improve their health and well-being. Our team is made up of consumer product veterans from the game and health industries. We've come together to build engaging products that truly help people live better lives, and we want you to be a part of that. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Healthways (Nasdaq:HWAY), we are able to combine the flexibility, culture, and agility of a start-up with the security, benefits, and compensation of a larger company.
System Architect/Engineer
We are seeking a system architect/engineer to manage our internal IT infrastructure, cloud-based web application infrastructure, and a modest number of end-user machines.
The position will be responsible for:
- Working closely with the product and engineering teams to build and manage the cloud-based infrastructure supporting our consumer web applications.
- Performing network and server administration tasks for staging and production environments.
- Monitoring performance of web applications and taking appropriate steps to increase capacity as needed.
- Conducting stress & load testing exercises, analyzing results to proactively plan for capacity and scalability.
- Researching and selecting vendors to provide needed services for our employees and applications, maintaining these services over time, issue resolution with vendors.
- Creating and maintaining cloud-based web application cost models to predict infrastructure costs.
- Creating and maintaining infrastructure design and support documentation.
- Administering online services for email, calendaring, document storage and sharing, intranet, agile project management, and product support.
- Implementing internal and application security policies.
- Configuring and maintaining employee laptops (Windows and Mac OS).
- Implementing internal solutions for virus protection, backup, password management, data encryption, disaster recovery, etc.
- Maintaining internal network and wireless infrastructure.
- Maintaining virtual phone system, employee mobile phones, and VOIP solution for conferencing.
Minimum requirements:
- Minimum of 3 years of experience supporting large, consumer-facing PHP or Rails web applications running on Linux, Apache or Nginx, and MySQL DB.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience supporting end user desktops/laptops running on Windows or Mac OS
- Experience in web capacity planning.
- Familiarity with server virtualization and cloud computing environments.
- Demonstrated track record of successfully building and supporting large-scale web application environments.
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Experience working in a small business or startup a plus.
- Scripting experience in Ruby, Bash, Perl, Python, or simliar language.
Skills and experience:
- Experience operating, tuning, and scaling large Linux-based consumer web applications.
- Experience supporting small numbers of Windows and Mac OS end-user machines.
- Experience working with cloud-based services.
- Experience troubleshooting application and network issues.
- Experience with software release build and deployment processes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work on multiple overlapping projects.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Education:
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
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