OPERATIONS ENGINEER - Software

RALLY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (www.rallydev.com) located in Boulder,
Colorado is a dynamic, growing company that provides software-driven
enterprises with the knowledge, coaching and tooling needed to
succeed with agile development practices.

By joining our agile software development team, you will be a part of
a group building a collaborative platform for agile software teams of
all sizes. Enjoy all the benefits of working with the hottest
technologies in small, highly collaborative teams while we service
users in 20+ countries and 50% of the largest software development
firms in the world from a hosted platform.

Responsibilities include:
• Administrating, monitoring, and maintaining Rally's on-demand test
and production systems
• Selecting, configuring, and maintaining state of the art computer
hardware that runs our on-demand systems
• Performing Rally production system upgrades and patches in a
clustered environment
• Assisting with production system security policies and audits
• Performing scalability tests on different hardware and software
configurations
• Assist in estimating product system capacities
• Designing and implementing a world-wide caching strategy
• Performance tuning the production hardware
• Maintaining, configuring, and testing our disaster recovery site
• Ability to configure networking technologies including but not
limited to: Firewalls, Routers, Switches (Vlans, port bonding, fail-
over redundancy)
• On call availability to service a highly redundant and reliable
production system

Your skills should include:
• Minimum of 5 years of operations experience
• Operations experience with a J2EE architecture with RedHat or
Centos, JBoss, and Oracle 9i or 10g
• Experience with a Redhat cluster with iSCSI SANs is a plus
• Good technical problem solving skills
• Good communication skills
• Good Unix/Linux scripting skills
• A detailed and methodical (bullet-proof) nature when executing
product system installations, migrations, maintenance, and upgrades

At Rally, we value teamwork, an ability to meet commitments, and
skill. Our company is comprised of people who are passionate about
the software industry and the success that implementing Agile
Development practices can bring our clients.

Rally was awarded one of the best places to work in Colorado, the
JOLT Award for product excellence from Software Development Magazine
and our Series B funding. We fielded five Boulder Peak Triathlon
relay teams and continually give back 1% of our time to the non-
profit community. Rally has also set aside 1% of its equity, upon
founding, as part of Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado.

We are recognized nationally as the best product in our category
(Jolt Awards 2006, 2007 and 2008), locally as the most innovative
product (IQ Awards) and voted "Best Tech Company to Work for in
Colorado" 2006 and 2007.

We are looking for those who share our passion and the desire to work
with the best and brightest. If it sounds like you might thrive in an
environment like this, please email your resume and cover letter to
jobs@....

Local candidate preferred. No third parties.

Join our award winning team!
Jolt Award Winner 2006, 2007 & 2008 - Product Excellence
Locally Most Innovative Product (IQ Awards)
Voted "Best Tech Company to Work for in Colorado" 2006 & 2007