We have an opportunity for a fulltime Systems Operations Engineer. We are looking for an independent creative thinker to fill this position. Our platform runs entirely on Amazon AWS platform (EC2, RDS, etc...). We have a polyglot shop (java, scala, python, ruby, php, c, c++). The qualified person will have experience working and deploying applications at high scale and availability. The person would also have experience and understanding of distributed system architectures including but not limited to (message queues, RDBMS sharding/partitioning, distributed data stores (key/value and others) and various other technologies and architectures.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of items we use. Familiarity with these or similar technologies is preferred.

AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, etc...)
Mysql
NoSql (some familiarity with NoSql databases). We use Redis for some things, and will be extensively utilizing DynamoDB in the near future (and possibly others as needed).
Java, PHP, Scala, Clojure, Python, Ruby, C, C++ (not required to know all, but familiar with some)
Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS). (We are migrating to Ubuntu from CentOS)
Message Queues (We extensively utilize RabbitMQ)
PHP Zend (our frontend servers are PHP Zend)
JVM (Our backend processing is using JVM with variety of languages (Java, Scala, Clojure).

This position is telecommute. Travel once a quarter or so is required for company get togethers.