Engine Yard are looking for an Application Support Engineer in the EU region: https://www.engineyard.com/company/careers/open-positions
I'm the Team Lead for the EU App Support at Engine Yard and I just thought I'd send an email out to this list in the hope of getting the interest of Ruby-minded people. The team has a good track record of great members coming forward from the local Ruby community (Will Jessop, Jim Neath and Adam Holt) and we'd like to continue that! While the position is fairly heavily weighted towards system admin work, having programming skills and experience writing Rails apps is extremely useful. We like to have that kind of experience on the team and are keen to find someone with this skillset. You won't be programming all that much (though there's plenty of scope to own various internal projects), but you'll be looking through the code of our platform a lot and even that of our customers' apps to help them identify problems. Having worked at Engine Yard for almost 3 years, I'd say this role is well suited to someone who maybe fancies a change from a straight-up development job, or for someone who would like to add a lot of new sysadmin knowledge and skills to their toolbox. Some of the stuff we deal with on a day-to-day basis includes: * Helping customers with issues when they deploy * Assisting customers with customising the Engine Yard Cloud platform through Chef recipes * Figuring out when a customer has found a bug on the platform and helping the dev team by bug reporting or even fixing and sending pull requests * Advising customers on scaling issues and best practices * Proactively fixing issues encountered for our Premium Support customers I personally really enjoy the job and like the fact that it allows me to work from home (or sometimes cafes & pubs in Manchester with the other EU team members), but also affords some travel over to the US and Dublin offices during our support team meet-ups. Engine Yard also have the following development programmes in place for all members of the support team: * Two sabbatical weeks per year - work on something to scratch an itch, be that starting an internal project, adding to some of our tools, or even working on a related OSS project * Two training courses per year * Two conference visits per year * One full support team meet-up in the US (we went to Lake Tahoe this year) * One regional support team meet-up (most likely at the Dublin office) If you think this sounds like an interesting opportunity, please contact me at [email protected] to discuss further. Cheers, Tim Littlemore EU Application Support Team Lead Engine Yard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
