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Our deployment environment is Amazon AWS: Opsware/Chef controlling EC2 with Linux virtual machines and related services and S3.\n\nWhat you will do\nTake ownership of our production environment, its operation and all deployments.\nEnsure adequate testing of our releases.\nDevelop and enhance and our automated tests and operations tools and scripts.\nBe first line response to production issues – troubleshooting and solving independently as much as possible, but also knowing when and with whom to consult when needed.\nIn more detail...\nWork closely with our CTO and the rest of our development team to extend our automated test suite.\nManual testing of the application.\nManage our configuration management and issue tracking.\nDevelop OpsWorks Chef and shell scripts.\nPackage and test builds for deployment.\nRoll-out new product releases.\nHandle any alerts from the production system.\nUse monitoring to tune our application in production.\n\nThis position will give you a lot of freedom to manage our production system to your own high standards, and to grow your career at our company as we take off.\n\nWhat we are looking for\n\nWe are looking for a smart adaptable engineer to join our small, but talented, team. We care more about the right team fit, passion for our mission, and desire to code, than a particular number of years of experience. So, if you meet the following, please apply.\n\nExperience in test automation, acceptance testing, load testing, and creating test scripts.\nGood knowledge of version control systems (Git, Perforce, SVN, etc.), software build tools, and continuous integration (Jenkins).\nExperience deploying a SaaS application on a cloud platform (EC2, Rackspace Open Cloud, etc.), and cloud automation tools (Chef, Puppet).\nExtensive experience programming shell scripts and at least one other major scripting language.\nExperience monitoring system health & analyzing log files.\nUnderstanding of network configuration.\nGood at solving problems and thinking creatively.\n\nYou look forward to learning new skills, and are not afraid to take ownership of projects, and transform an industry! You are turned on by the idea of working for a start-up – getting in on the ground floor, wearing multiple hats, and diving in to do whatever is needed.\n\nWe offer competitive salary, stock, benefits, free soft drinks and snacks and most importantly, a place to make an impact. We’re also easy to get to in San Francisco in an ‘A’ location: a short walk from the Muni, and Bart.\n\nTo apply, send a resume to:\ncareers@canvis.co\nwith the code QAOps in the subject line.\n\nIn your email, please give us a better picture of you in an operations role, by including brief examples of the following:\n\nDeploying a web application. Include description of the application stack, your role, steps and obstacles faced.\nA difficult production issue that you faced and how you solved it.\nLearning a new technology and mastering it in a short time-frame.","company":"Canvis","rawCompany":"canvis","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-07-19T13:03:25.381Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1253.00","title":"Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers","slug":"software-quality-assurance-analysts-and-testers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior QA and DevOps Engineer","description":"We develop in leading-edge technologies and believe in agile development. 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Our deployment environment is Amazon AWS: Opsware/Chef controlling EC2 with Linux virtual machines and related services and S3.\n\nWhat you will do\nTake ownership of our production environment, its operation and all deployments.\nEnsure adequate testing of our releases.\nDevelop and enhance and our automated tests and operations tools and scripts.\nBe first line response to production issues – troubleshooting and solving independently as much as possible, but also knowing when and with whom to consult when needed.\nIn more detail...\nWork closely with our CTO and the rest of our development team to extend our automated test suite.\nManual testing of the application.\nManage our configuration management and issue tracking.\nDevelop OpsWorks Chef and shell scripts.\nPackage and test builds for deployment.\nRoll-out new product releases.\nHandle any alerts from the production system.\nUse monitoring to tune our application in production.\n\nThis position will give you a lot of freedom to manage our production system to your own high standards, and to grow your career at our company as we take off.\n\nWhat we are looking for\n\nWe are looking for a smart adaptable engineer to join our small, but talented, team. We care more about the right team fit, passion for our mission, and desire to code, than a particular number of years of experience. So, if you meet the following, please apply.\n\nExperience in test automation, acceptance testing, load testing, and creating test scripts.\nGood knowledge of version control systems (Git, Perforce, SVN, etc.), software build tools, and continuous integration (Jenkins).\nExperience deploying a SaaS application on a cloud platform (EC2, Rackspace Open Cloud, etc.), and cloud automation tools (Chef, Puppet).\nExtensive experience programming shell scripts and at least one other major scripting language.\nExperience monitoring system health & analyzing log files.\nUnderstanding of network configuration.\nGood at solving problems and thinking creatively.\n\nYou look forward to learning new skills, and are not afraid to take ownership of projects, and transform an industry! 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