Forum: Ruby on Rails [JOBS] DevOp / SysOp for Web Application (Location: Preferably in Berlin, remote work possible)

Wimdu is an exciting, new start-up company headquartered in Berlin and
one of the biggest Ruby projects in Europe. As a well-funded start-up
with a long-term mission, Wimdu has grown to host over 50,000 properties
in over 100 countries since March 2011. Our main concept is to “travel
like a local”. Wimdu has a very international team, is already among the
top players and caters to a global audience from the headquarters in
Berlin.

DevOp / SysOp for Web Application
Location: Preferably in Berlin, remote work possible

You will manage the entire Wimdu hybrid-infrastructure that serves one
ruby application to more than 50 localized top-level domains, which are
visited by hundreds of thousands users daily.

Your Tasks:
•  You will lead infrastructure decisions (hardware and software)
•  You will optimize cachings and performance
•  You will extend the current automation
•  You will help Wimdu to deal with growing traffic

Your Profile:
•  You are experienced with cloud infrastructure and have a background
in server administration or software engineering
•  You made experiences with:
•  cloud or hybrid environments, debian or Ubuntu, vpn, git, chef or
puppet, nginx, unicorn, nagios/icinga, MySQL (Percona), JVM (Jenkins,
Solr, ...), Redis, HAProxy
•  You have got strong ruby or python coding skills
•  You know what DRY and TDD means
•  You measure everything you do
•  You know DevOps Borat (not necessarily in person)

Our offer:
You will become part of one of the biggest Ruby projects in Europe and
work with a highly skilled engineering team while individually enhancing
a global online platform running on our global cloud and balancing
rapidly growing traffic. This way you will directly impact Wimdu’s
worldwide success.
We offer you the international start-up spirit, combined with an
inspiring workplace in a stylish converted warehouse directly located in
the heart of Germany´s capital. Alternatively our DevOps can work from
home or remotely (why not Hawai?). You will benefit from an attractive
compensation and many development opportunities.

Excited by the prospect of joining us? If so, we look forward to receive
your application via mail to Wolfram at engineering@wimdu.com and feel
free to include your github handle.

Before we ask you, ask us: Send us your questions, doubts and we will
get back to you. We are looking forward to hearing from you!

The 11/09/12, Wimdu GmbH wrote:
>
> Your Profile:
>
> compensation and many development opportunities.
>
> Excited by the prospect of joining us? If so, we look forward to receive
> your application via mail to Wolfram at engineering@wimdu.com and feel
> free to include your github handle.
>
> Before we ask you, ask us: Send us your questions, doubts and we will
> get back to you. We are looking forward to hearing from you!
--
Nicolas Sebrecht

Fresher allowed??

Good day, Mr. Wolfram!

It sounds like a very exciting start-up company, so it would be huge 
pleasure to take part at your project as a partner. My name is Linas and 
I represent IT company, that was established in 2005, Lithuania. We are 
the team of 7 people who grow their knowledge in internet technologies, 
we  are using accumulated experience for successfully applying 
innovative ideas in our worldwide customers' business. Mostly we are 
experienced in e-commerce solutions where we have created many addons 
for e-commerce platforms, that are used by thousands merchants, but 
since last years we have strongly focused our team on the strengths of 
the Ruby on Rails platform as well we happy to use agile methodology for 
the projects that we take part in, also we use Atlasian Jira tool.
You have mentioned remote work possibility and that would be grate 
option for us. I would like to underline, that with our relatively low 
hourly rate (compared to West Europe) and very hard and accurate work of 
our team - we hope we could be useful parties for your business.
We would be EXCITED to work for you!

We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Best regards from rainy Lithuania, small country near to the Baltic 
coast :)

--
Best regards,
Linas

Wimdu GmbH wrote in post #1075411:
> Wimdu is an exciting, new start-up company headquartered in Berlin and
> one of the biggest Ruby projects in Europe. As a well-funded start-up
> with a long-term mission, Wimdu has grown to host over 50,000 properties
> in over 100 countries since March 2011. Our main concept is to “travel
> like a local”. Wimdu has a very international team, is already among the
> top players and caters to a global audience from the headquarters in
> Berlin.
>
> DevOp / SysOp for Web Application
> Location: Preferably in Berlin, remote work possible
>
> You will manage the entire Wimdu hybrid-infrastructure that serves one
> ruby application to more than 50 localized top-level domains, which are
> visited by hundreds of thousands users daily.
>
> Your Tasks:
> •  You will lead infrastructure decisions (hardware and software)
> •  You will optimize cachings and performance
> •  You will extend the current automation
> •  You will help Wimdu to deal with growing traffic
>
> Your Profile:
> •  You are experienced with cloud infrastructure and have a background
> in server administration or software engineering
> •  You made experiences with:
> •  cloud or hybrid environments, debian or Ubuntu, vpn, git, chef or
> puppet, nginx, unicorn, nagios/icinga, MySQL (Percona), JVM (Jenkins,
> Solr, ...), Redis, HAProxy
> •  You have got strong ruby or python coding skills
> •  You know what DRY and TDD means
> •  You measure everything you do
> •  You know DevOps Borat (not necessarily in person)
>
> Our offer:
> You will become part of one of the biggest Ruby projects in Europe and
> work with a highly skilled engineering team while individually enhancing
> a global online platform running on our global cloud and balancing
> rapidly growing traffic. This way you will directly impact Wimdu’s
> worldwide success.
> We offer you the international start-up spirit, combined with an
> inspiring workplace in a stylish converted warehouse directly located in
> the heart of Germany´s capital. Alternatively our DevOps can work from
> home or remotely (why not Hawai?). You will benefit from an attractive
> compensation and many development opportunities.
>
> Excited by the prospect of joining us? If so, we look forward to receive
> your application via mail to Wolfram at engineering@wimdu.com and feel
> free to include your github handle.
>
> Before we ask you, ask us: Send us your questions, doubts and we will
> get back to you. We are looking forward to hearing from you!