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Fairwinds Company Overview

Many engineering teams spend a lot of time architecting, deploying and managing their infrastructure, usually at the expense of building their companies’ products and services. However, the complexity of moving to cloud-native infrastructure is daunting to many. 

Fairwinds was created to provide organizations with reliable, production-grade infrastructure and enhance their expertise with Kubernetes.  The company offers three solutions:

  • ClusterOps, a fully managed Kubernetes platform that offers 24x7 Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) support

  • ClusterOps Advisory, an advisory service to supplement your team’s expertise

  • Fairwinds Insights, subscription software providing continuous monitoring for cloud-native infrastructure and workloads

All of Fairwinds’ solutions leverage open source software and are derived from best practices informed by hundreds of production deployments.

Jobs at Fairwinds

 
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Site Reliability Engineer
Boston
This is a remote position.  Applicants do not need to be local to Boston or NY. 1. Job Description At Fairwinds, we offer two main products: Kubernetes Advisory and ClusterOps. Through Kubernetes Advisory, we write infrastructure automation, migrate to high-availability solutions, and craft Kubernetes-based microservice architectures for our clients. You’ll work directly with clients to ensure their goals are met through automation, analysis, and infrastructure configuration. Via ClusterOps, we help companies implement Kubernetes quickly and effectively...
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Bill Ledingham Fairwinds

Bill Ledingham
Chief Executive Officer

Bill Ledingham Fairwinds
Bill Ledingham
Chief Executive Officer
Kendall Miller Fairwinds

Kendall Miller
President

Kendall Miller Fairwinds
Kendall Miller
President
EJ Etherington Fairwinds

EJ Etherington
Chief Technical Officer

EJ Etherington Fairwinds
EJ Etherington
Chief Technical Officer
Jun Ho Son Fairwinds

Jun Ho Son
Chief Financial Officer

Jun Ho Son Fairwinds
Jun Ho Son
Chief Financial Officer
Sarah Zelechoski Fairwinds

Sarah Zelechoski
Vice President of Engineering

Sarah Zelechoski Fairwinds
Sarah Zelechoski
Vice President of Engineering
Debbie Umbach Fairwinds

Debbie Umbach
VP of Marketing

Debbie Umbach Fairwinds
Debbie Umbach
VP of Marketing
Brian Levin Fairwinds

Brian Levin
VP of Sales

Brian Levin Fairwinds
Brian Levin
VP of Sales

Joe Pelletier
VP of Strategy

Joe Pelletier
VP of Strategy

Careers with Fairwinds

Our employees love what they do. But that isn’t the only awesome thing about being part of the Fairwinds team.

Here are a few of the major benefits…

Work remotely

Our clients are spread out across the US. So we figure there’s no point in us all being cooped up in one stuffy office. With Fairwinds, you have the chance to work remotely, giving you total flexibility. *US remote only*

Join an elite group

Expertise lies at the core of what we do. Our clients value our work because we’re the best at what we do. As part of the Fairwinds team, you’ll have the opportunity to work with (and learn from) some of the best Kubernetes Engineers in the country.

Develop yourself

Not all your time will be spent architecting. We encourage our team to spend around 20% of their working week on improving themselves, others, or their working environment. We call it “FW time”. Some of our team invest their FW time in the community, using their skills to help others.

Some of our team invest their FW time in the community, using their skills to help others.

51 Melcher St., 1st Floor
Boston, MA 02210

Read About Us

The VentureFizz Podcast
The VentureFizz Podcast: Bill Ledingham - CEO of Fairwinds
July 6, 2020
CxO Briefing: Fairwinds VP of Engineering Sarah Zelechoski
April 14, 2020
Talent on the Move
Talent on the Move - January 24, 2020
January 24, 2020

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Kubernetes Controllers Basics
September 23, 2020
If you’re new to Kubernetes, one of the first concepts you’ll want to familiarize yourself with is the Controller. Most Kubernetes users do not create Pods directly; instead, they create a Deployment, CronJob, StatefulSet, or other Controller which manages the Pods for them.Controller BasicsFirst, here are some Controller basics. The Kubernetes documentation uses the example that a controller is like your heat thermostat. The position of the dial is its desired state, the current temperatur...
Intro to Kube ingress: Set up nginx Ingress in Kubernetes Bare Metal
September 21, 2020
An ingress is a resource that enables traffic to come into your Kubernetes cluster from the outside. This is usually to HTTP or HTTPS service. There are ways to map non-HTTP services to an ingress, but that is less common. This blog will only focus on HTTP and HTTPS traffic.One of the more interesting aspects of an ingress resource is that even though it is a basic primitive that ships with Kubernetes — like pods, deployments, replica sets etc., it actually requires something called an in...
The Fairwinds Commitment to Black Lives — An Update
September 18, 2020
The Fairwinds Commitment to Black Lives — An UpdateThe three months since George Floyd’s murder have proven that valuing and protecting black lives remains as necessary as ever. This week, we were reminded of the stark racial injustices of this country as another Black man, Jacob Blake, was shot by police in front of his three children, leaving him paralyzed and the Wisconsin community shaken. At Fairwinds, we remain committed to the Movement for Black Lives-we will continue to influenc...
When to Use a Kubernetes Managed Service vs. Hiring Internally
August 27, 2020
Over the years in leadership at Fairwinds, I’ve been part of making decisions about hiring in-house talent or using a managed service. There are a number of situations where we hired outside. For example, payroll firms, benefits managers or marketing firms — some of it has been wonderful, other parts more painful. When our core work is intimately intertwined with what we need done, I almost always choose having someone internal.There are limitations and huge variations, however, in outsi...
Gemini: Automate Backups of PersistentVolumes in Kubernetes
August 26, 2020
Persistent Storage is HardWhen I first started getting the hang of Kubernetes, I wanted to do everything with it. After years of clicking buttons in the AWS console, the idea of having an open source, code-driven, vendor-agnostic cloud platform was incredibly exciting. So I was frustrated to learn that my coworkers — some of the strongest Kubernetes experts I’ve met — strongly advised against running databases in Kubernetes, or using it for any kind of persistent storage. They tol...
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