The SUSE Incubation Team is a small team of developers focused on innovation, prototyping, and exploratory hacking. Our charter is to come up with disruptive ideas that take Novell’s Linux business in exciting new directions.
The team is a diverse group, ranging from web developers who love working in Ruby on Rails to kernel hackers and virtualization experts, and it’s a great privilege to work with them. We have an upbeat culture that’s tolerant of experimentation, we’re obsessive about delivering innovative and amazing experiences to our users, and we hold each other to high standards. Besides our exploratory development work, the team is also responsible for running the twice-a-year SUSE Hack Week.
As it happens, one of our projects — an innovative web application — is starting to look promising and so we’re working on getting it ready for a limited public beta. And we’re looking for a few talented, energetic developers to help us get there.
We are looking for a release and deployment engineer to join the team. While we have some requirements, we are not looking for a specialist: we’re a small team, and we need people who are willing and happy to shift gears whenever necessary.
Are you interested in designing and operating a streamlined deployment architecture for a cluster of several hundred cores? We are looking for an engineer to architect and manage the build, release and deployment infrastructure for our new web service.
Your responsibilities will include creating and maintaining deployment scripts; creating deployable packages and images; system administration of production machines; building RPM packages and virtual images to simplify deployment; setting up and maintaining a cluster monitoring infrastructure; and setting up automatic daily builds (we want to pass that question on the Joel Test soon).
Linux packaging and system administration skills, and experience deploying web applications are a must; experience with Ruby on Rails is a plus; solid programming skills and a strong focus on delivering a great user experience are required. Infrequent travel to our data center in Boston will also be required.
We’re open to hiring people in any location, but we have a slight preference for people who can work in Nürnberg, Germany, and a preference for people close to the UTC+1 timezone. We offer competitive salaries and benefits in a fun, tight-knit team.
Interested? Please email your CV or résumé to cambrian@novell.com and mention you found the position on the JoS job board.