About Sittercity

Sittercity, a Bright Horizons company, is a technology platform working to reimagine the child care industry. Finding, hiring and managing high-quality, trustworthy and enriching child care has never been simple, for parents or caregivers. We want to change that. At Sittercity, you can imagine and create solutions that will revolutionize a multi-billion industry and bring relief to parents and care providers alike, all while having a lot of fun! Boost your career as we launch into our next phase of growth and help build a platform that changes the way child care works.

What You’ll Do

Sittercity.com is a monolith rails application, and while this architecture has served us well, we are now ready to take things to a different level with a brand new set of API’s and a new vision to push our products forward. As a DevOps Engineer on the tooling team, you will apply your passion for technology to build a world-class platform. You'll build reliable and robust infrastructure for deploying and serving our Rails and Go applications. You'll develop tools and systems that boost your colleagues' ability to ship code and empower our product and shared services squads.

Responsibilities:

• Flexible & quick to embrace new technologies and ability to train others
• Experience with cloud IaaS offerings in GCP(strongly preferred), AWs, or Azure
• Experience in one or more languages such as Go, Ruby or Python
• Experience with Kubernetes(strongly preferred) or other container orchestration platforms
• Experience with continuous integration/deployment tools such as Github Actions
• Experience with operational monitoring tools, such as Prometheus, Google Cloud Monitoring, Datadog, CloudWatch or Sumo Logic
• Proficient in Linux tools and shell scripting or other Linux automation 
• An interest in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Well-versed with the entire software development lifecycle, devops, and SRE practices

About you:

• Strong foundational security knowledge and understanding of best practices

• Experience working as a security engineer in cloud environments such as GCP(strongly preferred), AWS, or Azure
• Experience implementing security with Kubernetes(strongly preferred) or other container orchestration platforms
• Proficient in Linux tools and shell scripting or other Linux automation
• Flexible & quick to embrace new technologies and ability to train others
• Experience in one or more languages such as Go, Ruby or Python
• Understanding of data protection mechanisms including encryption

Nice to haves:

• Experience with automation/configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, or even better Google’s config-connector
• Experience with automated unit and integration testing of infrastructure code
• Experience with container security

Why you should join us

We offer an innovative and fun environment that rewards passionate and curious individuals. Due to COVID-19, this will start as a remote role with the potential to eventually rejoin our team in our Chicago office. Our office provides a bright and energized space for collaboration as well as many quiet areas for concentration. Additionally, you will receive the following benefits:

• Support for flexible and remote working environments
• Company events, social outings and volunteer opportunities
• Generous paid time off policy, including sick and holiday
• Industry-leading parental leave
• Tuition assistance, college coach, and enhanced family support
• Great benefits package, including: health, dental, vision, disability, life, and 401(k) matching
• Sittercity membership, back up child/adult/elder care, and child care center discounts

Sittercity is committed to hiring a diverse workforce. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other basis as prohibited by federal, state or local law. Sittercity participates in E-Verify and background checks all employees.