I heard a podcast about them. It might have been Planet Money. They ramped up production at the start of the pandemic, but then could not sell their supply. They were not allowed to advertise on Facebook because PPE was supposed to be reserved for the medical community, but then the medical community wasn’t buying either for budgetary reasons and fear of counterfeits.
I'm sorry but I think this is hogwash. The idea that America could function for 6 weeks in a lockdown to the level described to actually stop the transmission, by the time transmission started, is not plausible to me, and I imagine many others. This would have entailed no one working at grocery stores, no deliveries, no travel, no global trade. I just don't buy that this was ever plausible for however long people suggest: 3 weeks, 6 weeks whatever. And to what end. When do we open up to the rest of the world. I think your sentiment is hindsight wishful thinking/blame assignment. Now, criticizing the fact that we did not try what I would term more effective measures to stop transmission are fair points. Wide-spread cheap testing, ramping up massive manufacturing of real N95 respirators for the entire country, I think these are more plausibly effective techniques we did not do that are worthy of criticism.
Are you kidding?
CHAZ/CHOP in Seattle.
Portland occupation.
The various summer 2020 riots.
Numerous conservative speakers over the years being blocked from speaking on college campuses...
Voyant is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join our team in maintaining and enhancing our development and deployment systems.While AWS experience is ideal, we are open to candidates looking to gain expertise in AWS.
Responsibilities:
- Propose, design, and develop new DevOps automation projects.
- Coordinate and perform periodic maintenance of all test and production AWS deployments (image updates, disaster recovery test, etc.)
- Develop expertise in our current deployment solution, and continually design enhancements. Technologies used include: EC2, RDS, VPC, CloudFormation, Route53, Jenkins, OpenVPN, Tomcat, Apache, Java.
Requirements:
- Experience as a Linux system or DevOps engineer.
- Automation scripting language experience (Python+, Bash, Groovy).
- Must like dogs.
What we offer:
- A fun and relaxed environment in a small but profitable, and stable company.
- Highly competitive salary. Full family medical and dental.
Voyant is seeking a talented DevSecOps Engineer to utilize a variety of best practice tools and methods such as cybersecurity software, threat modelling and risk assessments to detect and analyze threats. The successful candidate will have expertise with virtualized Linux environments, along with experience building, configuring, and maintaining production deployments.
Requirements:
- Experience with cloud monitoring tools, such as Datadog
- Experience maintaining production web deployments.
- Up-to-date knowledge of cybersecurity threats, current best practices and latest software.
- Experience identifying suspicious events in corporate or production environments
- Automation scripting language experience (Especially Python).
- Must like dogs.
Additional Ideal Experience:
- Experience with SOC 2 compliance, PCI compliance or similar
- Experience or familiarity with Java application servers and servlet containers (Tomcat).
What we offer:
- A fun and relaxed environment in a small but profitable, and stable company.
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Voyant Inc. | System Administrator/Engineer/DevOps | Austin, TX | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | http://www.planwithvoyant.com
System Administrator/Engineer/DevOps
Voyant is seeking a talented System Admin/DevOps Engineer to help lead the evolution of our development and deployment systems. The successful candidate will have expertise with Linux, and experience building, configuring, and maintaining production deployments, ideally using Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2
Responsibilities * Leverage Amazon AWS services to design new and improve existing Voyant EC2 deployments. * Develop expertise in our current deployment solution, and continually design enhancements. Technologies used include: EC2, RDS, VPC, CloudFormation, Route53, Jenkins, OpenVPN, Tomcat, Apache, Java. * Develop tools (e.g. dashboards) to continuously improve DevOps processes around our AWS environments (We have at least 5 separate production environments). * Setup, configure, and maintain internal Linux and Windows virtualization environments. * Develop and implement disaster recovery planning for production environments.
Experience and Skills: * 5+ years experience as a system or devops engineer * Cloud computing administration - Amazon AWS preferred * AWS DevOps Engineering Certification (If not, we will encourage and sponsor your certification on the job) * Configuration management experience (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) * Automation scripting language experience * Experience or familiarity with Java application servers and servlet containers is a plus
What we offer: * Opportunity to gain AWS experience and AWS certifications * Small but profitable and stable company ... we are growing but not yet a big dumb company * Highly competitive salary with stock options * Full family medical and dental insurance
Location: Austin, TX (Relocation and visa sponsorship is not currently available.)
Primary Responsibilities
* Design and develop web applications and service APIs supporting external clients as well as internal product suite components.
* Continuously improve maintainability, security, and scalability.
* Design for and support AWS cloud deployments as well as client hosted environments.
Requirements:
* 5+ years Java development experience.
* Experience working with XML, JSON, and RESTful web services.
* Expertise with Spring and Hibernate.
* MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle DB experience.
* Experience implementing SSO solutions such as SAML.
* Experience with Tomcat and J2EE containers such as Websphere.
* Hands on experience developing enterprise level integrations.
* Self-starter who takes initiative and helps to define the product design.
* Comfortable working in a non-structured agile development environment.
* Must like dogs.
What we offer:
* A fun and relaxed environment in a small but profitable, and stable company.
* Opportunity to learn about the financial services industry in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Europe and Asia.
* Highly competitive salary.
* Full family medical and dental insurance.
* Opportunity for some international travel if desired.
Sorry, no sponsorship available.
Interview process is usually 1 phone screen, pre-onsite online coding problem, and onsite interview with code review and or whiteboard talk.
Voyant is seeking a talented System Admin/DevOps Engineer to help lead the evolution of our development and deployment systems. The successful candidate will have expertise with Linux, and experience building, configuring, and maintaining production deployments, ideally using Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2
Responsibilities
* Leverage Amazon AWS services to design new and improve existing Voyant EC2 deployments.
* Develop expertise in our current deployment solution, and continually design enhancements. Technologies used include: EC2, RDS, VPC, CloudFormation, Route53, Jenkins, OpenVPN, Tomcat, Apache, Java.
* Develop tools (e.g. dashboards) to continuously improve DevOps processes around our AWS environments (We have at least 5 separate production environments).
* Setup, configure, and maintain internal Linux and Windows virtualization environments.
* Develop and implement disaster recovery planning for production environments.
Experience and Skills:
* 5+ years experience as a system or devops engineer
* Cloud computing administration - Amazon AWS preferred
* AWS DevOps Engineering Certification (If not, we will encourage and sponsor your certification on the job)
* Configuration management experience (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
* Automation scripting language experience
* Experience or familiarity with Java application servers and servlet containers is a plus
What we offer:
* Opportunity to gain AWS experience and AWS certifications
* Small but profitable and stable company ... we are growing but not yet a big dumb company
* Highly competitive salary with stock options
* Full family medical and dental insurance
Location: Austin, TX (Relocation and visa sponsorship is not currently available.)
The Voyant dev team is looking for Java developers to improve and extend our calculation engine into new international markets.
Primary Responsibilities
* Build valuable domain expertise in the financial products and tax regimes of our international markets.
* Engineer reusable, extendable, efficient financial calculation models.
* Continuously improve code maintainability and calculation engine performance.
* Branch out into full stack development with service APIs for calc engine integration, advanced distributed calculation modules, etc.
Requirements:
* Experience with object oriented languages and design patterns.
* Java experience preferred.
* Basic understanding of financial products and their taxation principles.
* Desire to learn detailed nuances of worldwide financial products and taxation regimes.
* Talent to create simplified solutions for complex problems.
* Strong communication skills and engaging personality.
* Ability to interface directly with outside non-programmer subject matter experts.
* Self-starter who takes initiative and helps to define the product design.
* Comfortable working in a non-structured agile development environment.
* Must like dogs.
Sorry, no sponsorship available.
Interview process is usually 1 phone screen and onsite interview with code review and or whiteboard/editor coding.
The Voyant dev team is looking for Java developers to improve and extend our calculation engine into new international markets.
Primary Responsibilities
* Build valuable domain expertise in the financial products and tax regimes of our international markets.
* Engineer reusable, extendable, efficient financial calculation models.
* Continuously improve code maintainability and calculation engine performance.
* Branch out into full stack development with service APIs for calc engine integration, advanced distributed calculation modules, etc.
Requirements:
* Experience with object oriented languages and design patterns.
* 3+ years of development experience a must. Java experience preferred.
* Basic understanding of financial products and their taxation principles.
* Quant or software development experience within the financial service industry desired.
* Desire to learn detailed nuances of worldwide financial products and taxation regimes.
* Strong communication skills and engaging personality.
* Ability to interface directly with outside non-programmer subject matter experts.
* Self-starter who takes initiative and helps to define the product design.
* Comfortable working in a non-structured agile development environment.
* Must like dogs.
Sorry, no sponsorship available.
Interview process is usually 1 phone screen and onsite interview with code review and or whiteboard coding.
The Voyant dev team is looking for Java developers to improve and extend our calculation engine into new international markets.
Primary Responsibilities:
* Learn the tax code and financial product regulations of our international markets.
* Build reusable, extendable, efficient financial calculation models.
* Continuously improve code maintainability and calculation engine performance.
* Support service API development for calc engine integration.
Requirements:
* Experience with object oriented languages and design patterns.
* 3+ years of development experience a must. Java experience preferred.
* Basic understanding of financial products and their taxation principles.
* Quant or software development experience within the financial service industry desired.
* Desire to learn detailed nuances of worldwide financial products and taxation regimes.
* Ability to interface directly with outside non-programmer subject matter experts.
* Must like dogs.
Interview process is usually 1 phone screen and onsite interview with code review and or whiteboard coding.