We're looking for a new operations manager Jul 08 2010
18 comments Latest by Michael
We’re sad to say goodbye to our good friend and current operations manager Mark Imbriaco, but we know that he’ll continue to kick ass in his new position at Heroku. Mark has been with us for almost four years and seen our infrastructure grow from a handful of servers to I’ve-lost-count.
This means that we’re looking for a new operations manager to join our band. The operations team already consists of Joshua Sierles and John Williams and this new person will be working closely with the two of them, and the rest of us, to make sure all 37signals applications are always running like the German Swiss trains.
Please see the complete job posting on the 37signals Job Board.
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18 comments so far
Sven 08 Jul 10
As an German based Project-Manager i sadly have to say, that the German trains are not always running as smoothly and on time, as the post above indicates.
Our southern neighbors in Switzerland have the much better system and there the trains really run as tight on schedule as you probably meant with your analogy.
Hope you do find the right person for the job.
Anonymous Coward 08 Jul 10
I think the expression is ‘swiss trains’
Anonymous Coward 08 Jul 10
Why is the position restricted to North America? If timezones are an issue, surely South America is fine too?
EricTimmer 08 Jul 10
You can pretty much set your watch with the trains here in Japan.
DHH 08 Jul 10
AC, we need someone close enough to Chicago (that’s where our new data center is) that traveling there isn’t an intercontinental affair.
Adam 08 Jul 10
Good luck Mark.
I’ll be curious to hear about any challenges your facing, have faced with a handover from Mark. Documention / Notes etc
Petros Amiridis 08 Jul 10
At first when I saw this announcement in Twitter and didn’t know where Mark is going, I thought: “Geez, is there really a better place to work other than 37signals?” but I guess Heroku must be a cool place too.
Good luck Mark!
Paul S 08 Jul 10
Looks like a great job with a lot of responsibility! And with John Williams by your side, you’ll have good music too!
And Mark: Have a great time at Heroku!
Eric Anderson 08 Jul 10
Good luck at Heroku! I love their platform from a workflow standpoint but found their system to be flaky sometimes (although their support is pretty good about working with you to figure it out).
Hopefully you can bring the rock solid stability that 37Signals offers to Heroku so I can be completely in love with Heroku. :)
Anonymous Coward 08 Jul 10
I looked at the job posting to see what kind of degree requirement you were interested in, but to my surprise, no degree requirements were provided. Surely there is one, though. Why not be up front about it?
JF 08 Jul 10
Anon: We don’t require degrees at 37signals.
Matthew Weinberg 08 Jul 10
Datacenter in Chicago? Have you moved away from Rackspace?
Paul 09 Jul 10
MySQL behind all your products?
My IT Manager said MySQL is for small sites and all the big projects running on this database is nothing else than marketing :))) In my IT they only like Oracle and PostgreSQL. Probably because they don’t know MySQL :)
Anonymous Coward 09 Jul 10
@DHH
Are you no longer hosting at Rackspace since your new datacenter is in Chicago?
Michael 10 Jul 10
Interesting departure…
MI 10 Jul 10
Michael: I certainly think it’s interesting. I’d be curious about what you think is particularly interesting about my departure. :)
Jobinson 10 Jul 10
Hope you get a good one with all the skills and capabilities required for this job which has to be done accurately and precisely.
Michael 11 Jul 10
Mark, nothing so ominous as you might have thought I meant. :) I wondered whether you left because the data center is moving to Chicago, and whether you felt you would not be able to grow your skill portfolio further at 37S – whether you need to be setting things up and building things. It seems as if every department except yours gets to build things. Totally understand if you can’t reply to such a personal inquiry, but those were my thoughts. Anyway, good luck.
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