Barcelona Startup Jobs: Senior DevOps Engineer with Squirro (@Squirro)

Company: Squirro – The Insights Company

Position: Senior DevOps Engineer

Place: Barcelona

Job type: Full-Time

About Squirro

Squirro is a Zurich-based startup with locations in Munich, London, Barcelona and Philadelphia. We deliver an Adaptive Search Appliance & Filtering Solution providing our customers with unique insights that create competitive advantage. Our solutions give Sales & Marketing Teams an automated “living view” of their customers in real time – the insights are delivered automatically and in lock step with the customers’ world as it unfolds.

About You
We are looking for individuals with exceptional software engineering skills to be part of a fast moving startup. Our team is building the platform is building Squirro, a Unstructured Data Discovery and Analysis platform. We combine our unique Smart Filter technology with a very easy-to-use interface so that you can easily and quickly unearth gold in your landfills of digital data.

Responsibilities

• Use your experience and imagination to shape the direction of how we develop, operate and maintain the Squirro platform and appliances
• Design, implement, and maintain continuous build and deployment delivery mechanisms, leveraging innovative programmatic solutions and automation.
• Address challenges of a DevOps (development and operations) organization and participate in the deployment and maintenance of various software components
• Summary: Be the champion to take the technical operation of Squirro to new heights

Required Qualifications

• Exceptional programming experience in various languages (Python preferred) Strong track record in software systems design and implementation Familiarity with REST web services and extensive knowledge of UNIX/Linux Experience with testing and test-driven development
• Good communication skills with fluency in English
• Preferred Qualifications and Experience
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field
• Experience with information retrieval technologies (ElasticSearch, Lucene) and machine learning algorithms
• Experience with cloud deployments and configuration management
• Experience with RPM and packaging for RHEL

About the team
Squirro is a Swiss startup. We are a team of passionate Internet geeks and entrepreneurs. We love Python and Elasticsearch on the server side and JavaScript with Backbone.js on the client side. We work with Git, believe in testing, code reviews, continuous integration and continuous deployment. Our work is structured with Scrum.

We are located in Zurich, Switzerland. The city has repeatedly been rated as one of the very best cities to live in. We have additional offices in Munich, London and Philadelphia.

Be sure to read more information about what we do on our website at http://squirro.com and on our blog at http://blog.squirro.com.

Interested applicants can send a copy of their CV and cover letter to jobs@squirro.com

In addition to the role above, we are also currently searching for:

Business Analysts (full-time)
Business Analysts (intern)
Senior DevOps Engineers
User Interaction Designers