Organizational Overview
Mission: To build an engaged army of self-governing grassroots activists
Aspirational Goal: To bring a Political and Spiritual Awakening to America
Convention of States Action is a 501(c)(4) grassroots nonprofit organization committed to enacting legislation to restore self-governance in America. COSA’s primary project is the Convention of States Project (conventionofstates.com) which strives to call a Convention of States under Article V of the U.S. Constitution to propose amendments to limit federal power. Work for COSA may also involve projects for COSA’s affiliates, including Citizens for Self-Governance dba Convention of States Foundation.
Position Overview
Convention of States Action is looking for a DevOps Engineer to manage our IT systems infrastructure for our development, test, and production environments.
Responsibilities
- Work with contracted software developers to initially become familiar with the maintenance and software deployment processes, then assume responsibility for them entirely.
- Complete the migration of our infrastructure from AWS to our new private cloud.
- Assume administrative control of all IT system operations, as part of the COS Technology team, to monitor and ensure their availability for all users.
- Work with the CTO to plan and build infrastructure scalability to support a rapidly growing user community and millions of supporters
- Monitor, maintain and work with the CTO to develop new backup and disaster recovery procedures and sites
- Administer infrastructure security policies for critical infrastructure including:
- VSphere/VCenter
- Firewall/VPN
- DNS
- CDN
Key Skills
- Vsphere, VCenter, virtualization tools, VMWare
- Server deployment and maintenance
- Network configuration and maintenance (VLANs, K8s, Docker, etc)
- Linux
- Firewall configuration and maintenance (esp. Fortinet)
- Cloudflare
- AWS DevOps experience
- IAM, LoadBalancing, ElasticSearch, ElasticCache, EC2, RDS, S3
- Cloudfront, CloudFormation
- Technical design and communication skills
- Experience working remotely ~100%
Other Desirable Knowledge
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- Conventional data center experience
- Web design and development
- Ruby-on-Rails
- GitLab
- Jira
- Software Development Support (agile, scrum, etc)
- JavaScript (Webpack, Vue.js)
- WordPress/PHP experience (Laravel)
- PostgreSQL
- Configuration management and automation tool experience
- Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
- Mobile app development support
- Supporting services and technologies including
- DMARC, DKIM, SPF, OAuth
- Email and SMS services and relays
Pay
Citizens for Self-Governance offers pay commensurate with experience and skills. This is a full-time position that includes health benefits and paid vacation.
Location
COSA is a remote organization, with employees throughout the United States.
How to Apply
Send resume and cover letter to jobs@cosaction.com (Indicating salary history or salary expectations). Please include SysAdmDevOp in the subject line.
Deadline for Applications
The position is currently open and applications will be reviewed as they are received.
