About Rocket Lawyer

We believe everyone deserves access to simple and affordable legal services.

Founded in 2008, Rocket Lawyer is the largest and most widely used online legal service platform in the world. With offices in North America and Europe, Rocket Lawyer has helped over 20 million people create over 50 million legal documents, and get their legal questions answered.

We are in a unique position to enhance and expand the Rocket Lawyer platform to a scale never seen before in the company’s history, to capture audiences worldwide. We are expanding our team to take on this challenge!

About the Position

You’ll bring to the role a passion for building secure, robust, and high performance distributed systems. The ideal candidate will be a top-notch Linux expert with a devops focus and experience in fast-paced, dynamic environments. In addition to participating in the ongoing evolution of our server and network environments you will be part of our Tier 1 site support staff.

A Day in the Life

• Participate in the adoption of public cloud technologies, including migration of existing workloads and optimizing our architecture and practices to make best use of cloud technologies and patterns
• Participate in evolving our build, deployment, and release management practices towards a continuous integration/continuous deployment model
• Architect infrastructure and application monitoring and log analysis frameworks to provide deep visibility into our Java-based application stack
• Develop tools and processes for managing JVMs and applications in a container-based cloud deployment model
• Part of the distributed on-call team responsible for the health of a 24/7 production hosted environment
• Management of production web services (Apache, Tomcat, etc.) 
• Systems automation
• General systems administration (RHEL/CentOS)
• Troubleshooting and problem resolution

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years of experience
• Computer science degree or related technical experience preferred
• Ability to automate system configuration and management using scripts (shell, ruby, python, etc.) and configuration management tools (preferably terraform and/or chef)
• Experience with public cloud technologies (preferably GCP)
• RedHat Linux/CentOS administration and management

The ideal candidates will also have:

• Experience with managing highly available production-facing e-commerce web sites
• Experience with release management
• Experience with build automation (jenkins, go, cruisecontrol, etc.)
• Ability to diagnose and manage Java applications and JVMs
• Knowledge of monitoring systems and frameworks (nagios, sensu, graphite, etc.)
• Understanding of virtualization and containers
• Experience with system and network security (IPS/IDS, firewalls, user management)