Peak is seeking a Tools Developer to help build our datacenter portal, including both internal and customer-facing applications. These tools will help track datacenter resources, deploy services, provide for customer self-service, and generally help automate our day. Your tools will support system administrators, network engineers, datacenter technicians, internal operations (esp., sales and finance), customers, and partners.
Peak Hosting is a dynamic, growing hosting company. While some companies seize on the latest buzzwords, Peak focuses on what matters: uptime, performance, and old-school customer service. We seek cartographers not cowboys to help chart our success.
Responsibilities:
- Build and constantly improve our datacenter operations portal. This will include integration with various systems, including Nagios, RRD, CRM, and existing custom software.
- Design and develop tools for our network engineers and system administrators, with a focus on automating manual processes.
- You will be the key software development resource working with a small team of very focused system administrators and network engineers.
Professional Character Traits:
- You champion good software development practices allowing for effective team-based software development, such as source control, unit testing, and the use of design patterns.
- Integrating with 3rd party contractors for special projects and workload re-assignment.
- You are passionate about software automation and tools development and a drive to prevent anybody from having to do the same menial task twice (or a hundred times).
- Your innate project management skills allow you to take ownership of problems and solve them, and you distill varying stakeholder requirements into actionable specification. From that specification you build intuitive, scalable tools.
- You are end-user oriented. Whether your consumers are internal or external, you are adept at taking their point of view and producing products that satisfy their needs completely and intuitively.
- You possess very strong verbal and written communication skills and a strong desire to share knowledge and train others. It will pain you to write undocumented code or to release products that cannot be easily understood.
Key Skills and Experience:
- A BS or MS in Computer Science and at least 5 years of relevant software-development experience
- Very strong skills with the entire LAMP stack
- Proficiency with both PHP and Perl, including the object-oriented features of each, is a requirement
- We are a Linux shop: you need to be comfy at the command-line
- Peak is a very heavy user of SNMP, including many substantial custom systems. The ideal candidate has written software that programmatically interacts with SNMP.
- You have a proven track record of success working as full-time telecommuter.
Desirable Skills and Experience:
- Familiarity with Linux system administration and high-end datacenter operations
- A good understanding of monitoring systems (Nagios, RRD, Graphite, etc.)
- Experience developing unattended installation and console interaction tools
- A strong awareness of secure coding techniques
- Experience with PAM and Kerberos
- Web 2.0 technologies experience (i.e., HTML5, JavaScript, Ajax)
Conclusion:
- Peak Hosting offers competitive salaries and a multitude of fabulous benefits including: medical, dental, and life insurance, 401k, and tuition reimbursement.
- You must be fluent in English
- Occasional travel may be necessary
- THIS IS NOT A WINDOWS DEVELOPMENT POSITION
- THIS IS NOT A JAVA DEVELOPMENT POSITION
- IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN PAID TO WRITE SOFTWARE FOR AT LEAST THREE YEARS IN A ROW, DO NOT APPLY
- PLEASE: No 3rd party consulting firms, contractors, non-local candidates, and/or candidates not authorized to work in the US without sponsorship
Please send resume and cover letter to jobs12@peakwebhosting.com
