Looking for a Director of Ops

October 1, 2007 on 2:29 pm | Posted by tobymurdock | In jobs |

We’re growing here at Qloud, and as we do, managing our back end is becoming harder and harder. We have a great system team in place of DBAs and System Engineers. But now we’re looking for an experience Director of Ops to own and run the whole show.

If you’re interested, please contact us at jobs [at] qloud [dot] com. Please find the job description below:

Position: Director of Operations

Qloud is a rapidly growing Internet music service committed to transforming the consumer music experience by combining the social graph with music content. Qloud is backed by some of the Internet’s leading investors and is prepared to become the Internet’s leading music service. Qloud is looking for a Director of Operations to own and build the infrastructure to support the service.

Responsibilities

+ Ensuring that the Qloud system is able to provide performance necessary to satisfy a rapidly growing user base

+ Designing the database, system and hardware architecture to meet product requirements and scale to meet user demand

+ Identifying potential issues before they happen and developing the system to avoid future bottlenecks

+ Managing the implementation of system projects through a team of six (and growing) system and database administrators

+ Managing relationship with key vendors including hosting and hardware providers

+ Monitoring and ensuring the day to day uptime and performance of the system, including responses to system outages

+ Working with the leadership team to help drive our technical roadmap and future strategy

+ Being responsible for the entire spectrum of operations: from high-level design of very sophisticated systems to day-to-day troubleshooting of issues

Qualifications

+ Demonstrated experience managing operations for a high traffic consumer service

+ Experience designing and scaling high traffic database environments

+ Experience managing a team of system and database professionals

+ Outstanding knowledge of web system technologies, including:

- Linux
- Networking & security technologies
- Hardware and hosting technologies
- Database technologies, particularly MySQL

+ Interest and skills across the full range of web operations: from high-level design to day-to-day troubleshooting

Work Environment

+ Qloud is very intense about its mission: we are determined to become the best music experience in the world

+ Qloud is very demanding about team performance: all of us have to regularly achieve our goals and produce excellence

+ Qloud is very flexible and open-minded about how that is achieved:

- Spending the necessary time collaborating with the team in person
- Getting personal tasks done wherever and whenever it works best for the individual
- “Face time” does not exist at Qloud
- Taking our work very seriously while not taking ourselves too seriously; having a casual, friendly, respectful work environment

Qloud is located in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, across the street from the Discovery Channel, steps away from Metro and commuter rail

Contact

Please send resume, cover letter and range of salary requirements to jobs [at] qloud [dot] com