The Mission you’ll be helping us with:
BizScout is a technology startup headquartered in Austin, TX, and we are revolutionizing the way everyday individuals engage in buying and selling businesses, moving away from the traditional realm of Wall Street. We believe that buying small businesses should be as easy as buying real estate. We serve as the vital link between one generation’s legacy of small business creation and the next generation who will buy and innovate within them.
Our platform acts as a rapidly expanding marketplace for business transactions, complemented by a dedicated brokerage arm providing personalized support to real people. With a grand vision to pair technology with brokerage services, we aim to establish ourselves as the premier destination for business exchanges, driven by genuine human connections, and we need your help to do it.
While we may have a low profile now, our team consists of the highest caliber talent from leading global marketplaces and is supported by Contrarian Thinking.
Our parent company:
Contrarian Thinking, led by Codie Sanchez, a former Wall Street and Private Equity investor, is a leading digital media company, education business, and investment firm. We are one of the fastest-growing business media companies in the USA, with over 100 million views per month and 5+ million social followers. We own holding companies of small businesses that comprise our enterprise and are launching several new channels and businesses in 2024.
Your future opportunity with us:
We seek a talented Software Engineer specializing in DevOps & Infrastructure for the Core Platform. You'll be a trusted thought partner - making an impact by supporting the organization in developing next-generation technologies and complex pipelines & infrastructures that connect buyers and sellers. As a member of our early team, you will be leading the devops initiatives & practices in growing our company and directly impacting the future of our platform and product roadmap. Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, In this role, you will work & own end-to-end devops & infrastructure processes - starting from building CI/CD pipelines and build the infrastructure building blocks that'll support our core platform.
The ideal candidate for this role is an engineer with end-to-end software development life cycle (SDLC) experience who wants to merge their passion for technical excellence with their passion for building something new, great, robust & scalable in a challenging startup environment. You need a vision to make a big impact for BizScout buyers, sellers, partners, and clients. You must have a love of Main Street over wall street. In addition to possessing the technical chops needed to execute on the day-to-day, you will need to demonstrate a creative approach in developing our proprietary application, collaborating closely with the engineering, product & supply team to ensure functional, technical, and aesthetic appeal. Above all, you value autonomy & have a relentless bias for taking action with an end-to-end ownership.
What your day-to-day would look like:
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure across all BizScout platforms and products
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments & testing
- Manage and scale containerized applications
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform
- Design and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
- Implement security best practices and maintain compliance standards
- Optimize cloud costs and resource utilization
- Automate routine operations and maintenance tasks
- Troubleshoot and resolve pipeline & infrastructure-related issues
- Support development teams with infrastructure & pipeline needs
- Manage database operations and performance optimization
- Handle incident response and on-call duties
- Document infrastructure architecture and procedures
- Lead infrastructure initiatives and innovation in DevOps processes
What you’ll bring to the table:
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps and infrastructure engineering
- Strong expertise in AWS cloud services and architecture
- Extensive experience with containerization (Docker.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Strong background in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Circle CI, Gitlab CI)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
- Expertise in Linux/Unix administration
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, Shell)
- Experience with version control systems (Git) and GitOps practices
- Knowledge of security best practices and compliance requirements
- Experience with database administration
- Proficiency with log management and analysis tools
- Experience with service-oriented architecture
- Strong understanding of networking concepts and security
- Experience with Serverless (sst.dev, aws cdk) is a huge asset
- Experience with NextJs is a huge asset
- Experience building automation testing pipeline is a huge asset
Personality & Cultural fit
- You want to define challenging product & engineering problems & solve them from DAY 1
- You understand the startup grind & hustle and you’re excited to be a part of it every day.
- You are a self starter with an action, execution & iteration oriented mindset to get the job done no matter what.
- You’re not afraid to pick up new things, learn fast & execute in parallel.
- You are a master generalist who don’t quite fit into one domain, rather likes working & taking ownership end to end.
- You breathe technology & stay up to date with technology trends
- You’re a champion in your team & push you peers to be a champion with you
Your first 30 days with BizScout Engineering
7 days
- Set up and document infrastructure environments
- Understand existing cloud architecture and practices
- Build CI/CD pipelines in Github
- Begin infrastructure cost analysis and optimization
14 days
- Implement infrastructure improvements and automations
- Establish monitoring and alerting strategies
- Design long-term infrastructure roadmap
- Begin implementing security best practices
- Actively participate in architectural discussions
- Establish quality metrics and monitoring
30 days
- Lead implementation of infrastructure improvements
- Establish comprehensive DevOps standards and documentation
- Demonstrate measurable improvements in reliability and performance
- Identify and begin addressing technical debt in infrastructure
- Create disaster recovery and scaling plans
How we work together:
At BizScout your input matters and we want to hear it. We genuinely care about our work and each other. We help support and grow each other and celebrate our wins on the path to making the experiences for business buyers, sellers, brokers. We drive high impact, thrive at a fast pace and deliver on the things we say we will deliver on. We have a great time doing it!
The Contrarian Creed
From our parent company Contrarian Thinking, these are the words we stand by, live by and define what it means to be a Contrarian & a part of this company
- People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
- Be a great f**king human. Do what’s right even when it hurts.
- How you do anything, is how you do everything.
- We do the dirty work.
- Your word is your contract.
- We are Archimedes, find your lever.
- Winners want pressure.
- We want your weird. Better weird than boring.
- Your job isn’t done until THE job is done. We work the problem.
- Assumptions are for assholes. Find the truth.
- Less words, more meaning.
- Even our notes are worth stealing. Make every creation a mini-masterpiece.
- Show me your results, not your intentions.
You ready to become a part of the builders? Awesome, here are the details:
Compensation
USD $1000-3000/month, depending on experience
Location
Fully remote.
Please note: This role requires being available during regular business hours 8am-6pm CT
Type of Employment
Contract
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