CrunchTime! Information Systems (www.crunchtime.com), provider of the hospitality industry’s leading enterprise operations platform, is seeking new team members across its organization to help it scale operations as it experiences record growth.

Since its inception in 1995, when the company created the industry’s first web-based back office system, our platform has been adopted by the world's e most iconic brands in the Restaurant, Cruise, Airport Concessions, Military and Leisure and Entertainment industries; and is in operation at tens of thousands of locations. CrunchTime is a recognized technology leader that provides the perfect blend of product features, thought leadership, organizational stability, great technology, and a maniacal commitment to operational excellence.  We combine the financial depth and stability of a large established company with a “there are no limits to what we can accomplish together” culture of a startup.

CrunchTime is looking for an Automation Engineer who will be responsible for planning, implementation and automation of the internal infrastructure including network and server environments. This position requires a sense of personal ownership of all systems and projects which are assigned.  Also required is the ability to communicate as needed with the Hiring Manager to deliver status updates, documentation, and access any resources or information necessary to complete the task. The ideal candidate will be eager to learn new technologies supplemented with prior knowledge of Ansible automation and will handle each task thoughtfully and thoroughly.

The Automation Engineer will ideally be located in Boston, MA but we will also consider fullly remote for the right person. 

Primary Roles and Responsibilities

Systems Administration:

• Deployment of cloud infrastructure and supporting automation
• Administration of Linux (RedHat, CentOS) Servers
• Virtualization expertise using VMWare
• Perform basic network operations like firewall NAT changes (Palo Alto)
• Support and Automation of load balancing appliances such as NetScaler ADC
• Automation of mission critical business applications (Apache, Tomcat)
• Automation of monitoring applications (Nagios/Icinga, Grafana, etc.)
• Automation of internal and external DNS

Production Environment Support:

• Support hosted co-located facilities (servers, database, application)
• Apply system and application upgrades to minimize downtime
• Participate in infrastructure support on-call rotation

Skills Needed:

• Experience building, maintaining and expanding highly available infrastructure with Ansible automation
• Experience building, maintaining and working with Ansible playbooks against bare-metal architecture
• Experience automating existing manual work flows into logical automation driven workflows
• Ability to coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously and demonstrated capability to achieve results in a fast-paced team environment
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Great attention to detail and strong organizational skills

Required Qualifications:

• At least 3 years of experience with one of the following automation frameworks
  • Terraform
  • Ansible / Ansible Tower
• At least 5 years of professional experience as a Linux Systems Administrator/Engineer

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experiences and training
• Experience with at least one scripting language such as bash, python, etc.
• Experience working in a cloud environment
• Experience building and maintaining a CMDB used for centralized automation efforts

CrunchTime Benefits:

CrunchTime! Employees enjoy a competitive salary, depending on experience, plus access to a progressive benefits program which includes the following:

• Health, dental and vision insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Life and AD&D.
• Flexible Spending Accounts for dependent and medical care.
• Generous Paid Time Off.
• 401K Plan with employer match.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Educational assistance for approved courses, seminars and conferences.
• Monthly fitness reimbursement.
• Pretax and monthly reimbursement Commuter benefit.
• Catered lunch every Friday.
• Bagels and muffins every Tuesday.
• Thirsty Thursday.
• Generous Employee referral bonus.
• Community volunteer program.