Ops Team Manager in Paris

Software Heritage is a universal software source code archive project, whose aim is to recover, preserve for the very long term and share all publicly available source code, together with its development history (e.g., as stored in version control systems). The Software Heritage archive already contains over 30 billion unique source files and 6 billion commits, retrieved from over 440 million software development projects. The Software Heritage initiative, hosted by the Inria Foundation, is an entirely free software (FOSS) and non-profit project.

The Position

We are looking for a manager for our operations team. The team consists of 5 engineers, including a tech lead, and is responsible for maintaining the Software Heritage infrastructure, designing and implementing its evolution and helping deploy the Software Heritage applications. The ideal candidate will be both a good manager and a good engineer, since he/she will be involved in the team’s technical activities.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of projects on which you could be called upon to collaborate:

• Help design and install a new infrastructure for Software Heritage hosted at CINES
• Continue the transformation to a more devops oriented organization
• Accompany the growth of the operations team and the Software Heritage

Main tasks and activities

• Day to day management of the operations team
• Ensure the Software Heritage infrastructure and applications are up and running
• Project management and coordination with other teams
• Technical participation in team projects and activities
• Interaction with relevant Open Source communities and Software Heritage partners

Skills

• Experience in managing a team of engineers
• Experience in project management (Agile methodologies, Scrum, Kanban…)
• Good level of English (written and spoken)
• Good interpersonal and communication skills

Software Heritage is a complex technical architecture (see our documentation), based on many different technologies, which continues to evolve. We do not expect candidates to master all of them, but rather to be open to discovery and learning. Previous knowledge of one or more of the subjects mentioned below will help in the process of getting to grips with the project, but we encourage you to apply whatever your level of experience in these technologies.

• Experience on Kubernetes or equivalent container orchestration environment
• Solid Linux experience on a production environment, preferably at scale
• Experience with configuration management technologies such as Puppet, Chef or Ansible
• Operation of relational (PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL (Cassandra) databases
• Scalable storage (e.g. Ceph, cloud-based blob storage, ZFS, Swift…)

The ideal candidate will be sensitive to the FOSS culture and ecosystem (use, possible contributions to projects…). We expect self-organization and autonomy skills commensurate with the candidate’s experience. Good system administration practices should be well known or mastered, particularly in the context of FOSS development, and software development should be at least a familiar skill.

Working conditions

We are a team of 25 people, including 13 technical staff (8 developers and 5 sysadmins).

Autonomy, transparency and consultation are at the heart of our values (the project is free and Open Source).

The position is based at the Inria center in Paris.

The contract is a 2-year renewable full-time fixed-term contract, with the prospect of permanent employment.

• Telecommuting: 90 days/year (average 2 days a week)
• Vacation: 35 days + 10 days RTT
• Salary range: 30 to 70 k€ depending on profile and experience.

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