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Job type full-time
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Who we are looking for…Promenade, formerly known only as bloomnation, is growing rapidly and looking for a director of tech opsIn this role, you’ll lead our devops, systems, security, and it efforts across the whole organizationYou’ll advocate for cutting-edge technology, you’ll coach your team, you’ll lead by example, and, most importantly, you’ll join a group of people you enjoy working withThe ideal candidate has passion and a positive demeanor, a strong technical background managing successful teams of devops, systems, and it engineers, and solid experience with large-scale saas in a startup environment.
Specifically, you will….
Develop a technical roadmap for the devops team that map out our path towards fully automated continuous deployment capabilities for all products
Setup 24/7 monitoring, alerting, and response schedules to ensure all systems have coverage
Ensure a unified and reliable infrastructure approach across promenade that serves the needs of each product
Monitor, analyze, and report performance statistics for cloud-hosted environments
Execute the company-wide global cybersecurity strategy & roadmap
Ensure a security-minded, risk-aware culture through documentation, training, and enforcement
Maintain information security policies, procedures, and guidelines consistent with industry standards
Build and manage vendor relationships, interacting with third-party contributors to facilitate effective partnerships
You will excel if you have….
10+ years of experience with building, deploying, administration, and monitoring saas applications and related infrastructure with at least 5 years managing devops/systems teams and processes
You have a solid understanding of operations, ci/cd, security, and networking
You are deeply familiar with cloud concepts and can manage deployments, data center environments, performance, benchmarking, testing, monitoring, and logging all of these things
Experience with docker, kubernetes, github, ansible, terraform, cloud formation
Capacity planning and performance optimization for hardware, vms, and data stores
Ambitious and challenging problems are motivating to you and have proven experience in rallying your team to deliver great results
You use a highly collaborative approach and value feedback from team members to help achieve your goals
You know how to effectively balance speed and cost to implement, and the entire lifecycle of ownership when making recommendations
You are an excellent cross-functional communicator, summarizing complex technical and business objectives with various stakeholders
Deep experience with cloud platforms (aws specifically)
Experience with infrastructure as code tools
Hands-on experience with monitoring and apm tools
Experience with log aggregation tools
What’s in it for you...
Equity/stock options in a profitable and rapidly growing company
Great medical/dental/vision coverage
Transportation coverage in the form of parking, ride-share, or metro credit
Fully stocked snack bar & weekly catered lunches
Company provided gear & swag (macbook pro, t-shirt, sunglasses, etc.)
Ability to mold your career and make an immediate impact
Flowers discount
Work in a fast-paced, fun environment with an eclectic group of people from all over the world
More about us - promenade promenade is a mission-driven company empowering local businesses with products and services that allow them to thrive online and offlineWe build vertically-focused software catered to each industry we serve, leveling the playing field between the small business and large aggregatorsPromenade was originally founded in 2011 as bloomnation, the nation’s premier network for local florists, disrupting the multi-billion dollar floral industryAfter helping thousands of local florists across the country, we doubled down on our mission and began helping more small businesses who carried the same challenges of acquiring and retaining their own customersToday, promenade creates software for four industries - floral (bloomnation), food (dig-in), beverage (swigg), and breweries (bevv)The company is based in santa monica, caAdditional highlights… backed by premier industry investors such as andreessen horowitz (airbnb, box, facebook, lyft, twitter, etc.), spark capital (tumblr, upworthy, warby parker, etc.), and crunch fund (square, uber, etc.)
Named one of entrepreneur’s “5 sizzling silicon beach startups to watch”
Located one block away from the beach on the world-famous 3rd street promenade in santa monica why join promenade? if you want a front-row seat in seeing a company disrupt a massive industry and you love the idea of helping hardworking business owners that serve our local communities and neighborhoods, this is your placeAt promenade, everyone has a voice to create change and move the needleNo hierarchy, no bureaucracy, no politics...just real people working on solving real problems.
