Systems Engineer for SaaS Platform at Pascal Metrics in Washington, DC

Ground floor opportunity in a fast-growing firm with a world-class team poised to drive and exploit the coming revolution in healthcare:

What if you could play a key role in the development of a new SaaS platform that will literally save lives throughout the world?

What if you could help build that platform for a rapidly growing, technology focused, already profitable startup using cutting-edge technologies?

Sound interesting?

Pascal Metrics has an immediate opening for an operations/systems engineer to join our team at our headquarters in Georgetown, Washington DC. The ideal candidate will have experience designing, deploying, and maintaining the infrastructure for highly scalable and fully secured web services platforms.

About Us:

Pascal Metrics brings together world-class research, clinical, and technology expertise to deliver patient safety and related risk management solutions to clients worldwide. We serve some of the largest and most prestigious healthcare systems in the world, anchored by subscription solutions offering patient safety metrics and analytics. The culture of the company reflects its roots in research, academia, and clinical medicine, favoring data-driven approaches that are rooted in science and prizing intellectual inquiry that results in practical application.

We are looking for:

• Self-motivated, prolific operations/systems engineers able to work effectively in a small team
• Extensive experience configuring/deploying/monitoring infrastructure for open source platforms on Linux 
• Scripting expertise with python, perl, ruby, or your favorite shell
• Engineers who thrive in a fast-paced environment driven by a competitive startup mentality
• Hands-on technologist with the skills required to configure, maintain, scale, and optimize the various components (MySQL, MongoDB, Memcache, Nginx, Ubuntu Servers) that are part of our platform
• In-depth understanding of web technologies from protocols to browsers and everything in between 
• Experience with SaaS platforms and webservices deployed on virtual servers in the "Cloud"
• Thorough understanding of security principles and ability to apply best practices and compliance-based security patterns to local, remote, and cloud-based servers.
• Engineers with pride and interest in their craft beyond the day job

Pluses:

• Strong background in relational database administration (DBA experience)
• Familiarity with Mac OSX Server, Crashplan Pro, Robo devices,
• Practical knowledge of network design and deployment (VPN, Voice over IP, WAP security, Cisco IOS)