Cloud Platform Engineer (Remote in California)

About Rocket Lawyer   We believe everyone deserves access to affordable and simple legal services. Founded in 2008, Rocket Lawyer is the largest and most widely used online legal service platform in the world. With offices in North America, South America, and Europe, Rocket Lawyer has helped over 30 million people create over 50 million legal documents, and get their legal questions answered.   We are in a unique position to enhance and expand the Rocket Lawyer platform to a scale never seen before in the company’s history, to capture audiences worldwide. We are expanding our team to take on this challenge!

About the Role

You’ll bring to the role a passion for building secure, robust, and high performance distributed systems. The ideal candidate will be a top-notch Linux expert with a devops focus and experience in fast-paced, dynamic environments. In addition to participating in the ongoing evolution of our server and network environments, you will be part of our Tier 1 site support staff. 

Responsibilities

• Participate in the adoption of public cloud technologies, optimizing our architecture and practices to make best use of cloud technologies and patterns 
• Participate in evolving our build, deployment, and release management practices towards a continuous integration/continuous deployment model
• Work closely with development teams ensuring collaboration within technology team in supporting and improving CI/CD
• Collaborate with the product development team to continuously improve customer experience through increases in performance and reliability
• Thoroughly understand the performance of our customer-facing site through monitoring and data-driven analysis
• Apply infrastructure-as-code patterns to increase the reliability and predictability of our services
• Architect infrastructure and application monitoring and log analysis frameworks to provide deep visibility into our Java-based application stack
• Part of the distributed on-call team responsible for the health of a 24/7 production hosted environment
• Systems automation to enhance developer productivity
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our development, test and production environments.
• Advise the product development team on architectural choices as a technical advocate for excellent customer experience

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience
• Computer science degree or related technical experience preferred
• Ability to automate system configuration and management using scripts (shell, ruby, python, etc.) and configuration management tools (preferably terraform and/or chef)
• Experience with public cloud technologies (preferably GCP)
• RedHat Linux/CentOS administration and management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with managing highly available production-facing e-commerce web sites
• Experience with release management
• Experience with build automation (jenkins, go, cruisecontrol, etc.)
• Ability to diagnose and manage Java applications and JVMs
• Knowledge of monitoring systems and frameworks (nagios, sensu, graphite, etc.)
• Understanding of virtualization and containers
• Experience with system and network security (IPS/IDS, firewalls, user management)

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive health plans (including Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for full-time employees)
• Unlimited PTO
• Competitive salary packages
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Supplemental Optional Life Insurance Benefits
• FSA Options Optional
• HSA with Company Match
• 401k program with Company Match
• Fertility Assistance and Planning options
• Wellhub & ClassPass fitness platforms
• Comprehensive Pet Insurance options
• Financial Wellbeing & Student Loan Program access
• Access to additional Mental Health & Wellbeing resources
• Pre-tax Commuter/Transit Benefits
• Free Rocket Lawyer account with online access to an extensive legal documents library and brilliant licensed attorneys at discounted rates 

Rocket Lawyer is proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, military or veteran status, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We particularly welcome applications from veterans and military spouses.   All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to hr@rocketlawyer.com.   Compensation
Base salary range by location:

• San Francisco Bay Area, CA: $113,000 - $142,000
• California (outside of San Francisco Bay Area) and Colorado: $96,000 - $120,000
• Utah, Arizona, and North Carolina: $90,000 - $113,000

Actual compensation packages are determined by various factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, specific work location, and performance during the interview process.$90,000—$142,000 USD

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