Rackspace Work Values

Daily Duties at Rackspace:

Ruby on Rails developer, working on internal web applications to make employees lives easier. Part of a two-person development team focused on quick wins, automation, and time saving projects. Projects include Carpool (Google Maps mashup), SSL App (internal SSL Certificate Authority), Thought Pool (idea solicitation and voting), Segment Support Ops provisioning, Private Cloud provisioning, Cloud Matrix provisioning, Change Management, Firewall Change Management, and other applications. Also the author of the Ruby Cloud Files API, a Ruby Cloud Servers API, and added Cloud Files support into the Rails file attachment plugins "attachment_fu", "carrierwave", and "paperclip". Provided technical assistance to external software developers. Reviewed partner code and products for functionality and utility, providing business cases for current and future partnerships. Continued to contribute to Open Source initiatives in the Rackspace Cloud ecosystem. Expanded the reach of Rackspace Cloud technologies by writing Ruby gems that interface with various Cloud APIs, and used those gems to provide Rackspace Cloud support in various software packages that previously only supported Amazon. Additionally, assisted the Corporate Media team with tools and knowledge to help them address social networking issues.

What they like about Rackspace:

Organizations with strong, centralized leadership are particularly attractive to you. You require a work environment with leadership that aggressively seeks to expand and grow the business and does so in a visible and decisive manner. In general you prefer to work in an environment in which there is a strong link between leadership, its actions, and a strong set of company-wide values.

Tags

ruby, rails, linux, freebsd, sysadmin, mongrel, capistrano, unix, system administration, developer, programmer, system administrator

Skills

P&L responsibilities, Presentation, Ecommerce Strategy and digital marketing channels optimization - SEO, SEM, email, affiliates - for high-profile accounts., Technology Solutions, Sales Support, Software Implementation, Requirements Analysis & Specification, Leadership

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Rackspace: