At the end of November, we’ll be migrating the Sematext Logs backend from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch

JOB: Devops Evangelist – Monitoring, Logging, Analytics

July 22, 2014

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DEVELOPER / DEVOPS EVANGELIST

Sematext is looking for someone with a business and marketing bent and enough technical background to be able to put together bits of code and demos of SPM, Logsene, and other products we are working on.  A good fit for this role is a person who likes to teach and share, knows how to connect with people and their needs, is passionate and is considered (or wants to become) a thought leader in at least one area — Monitoring, Logging, Data Analytics and/or Business Intelligence.  Our ideal evangelist also enjoys the agility and challenge of a startup.  For a good description of the type of person we are looking for watch this video.  Sematext is a young, fast growing, highly distributed and agile team and our developer evangelist will work in many different capacities and contribute to the company’s success in a variety of ways.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Create technical content and demos for publication on our blog and other channels to show developers, devops, and others how to implement specific solutions or use new technologies
  • Prepare and deliver presentations and webinars, speak at industry conferences, local meetups and other events
  • Build relationships with tech bloggers, open source contributors and product community leaders, journalists and analysts
  • Educate and empower developers, giving technical workshops and brown bags
  • Build partnerships with individuals, companies and organizations that serve the same communities we do (Elasticsearch, Solr, Kafka, Hadoop, Storm, Spark, etc.)
  • Gather and socialize product feedback that informs engineering, sales, and marketing decision making

REQUIREMENTS:

  • BS or higher in Computer Science or professional experience as a developer, sys admin, sales engineer or other technical role
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills with ability to write for engineers or high-level management
  • Entrepreneurial thinking and the ability to act effectively with only high-level direction

BONUS:

  • Participation in open-source community
  • Experience with other commercial and open source monitoring, logging, or analytics technologies
  • Experience working in a startup

You can check out our products, our services, our clients, and our team to get a better sense of what Sematext is all about.  Also worth a look are the 19 things you may like about Sematext.  Interested? Please send your resume to jobs@sematext.com.  For other job openings please see Jobs @ Sematext or even our previous job listings.

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