DevOps Engineer

We are a growing global company that creates meaningful solutions and technology products to enable students and learners of any age to forge their path to success by eliminating barriers and inspiring them to achieve their education and career goals.

Our company values a culture of openness, community, and sense of ownership. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with a global team of highly-talented people working across various disciplines to design and deliver solutions that have a real impact on people’s lives.

We offer competitive salaries and state-of-the-art computer hardware and software. We value work life balance and offer flexible work schedules.

Education and growth are at the core of the products we build, and as a member of our team you will have the opportunity to explore and learn new technologies. For qualified candidates, we provide full support for learning all technologies in our stack that you are not already familiar with.

About the Role:

For this role, we are looking for a DevOps Engineer who is passionate about delivering high-performance distributed web applications. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting and building robust, reliable, performant infrastructure to deliver our mission critical, high-availability applications. You will work with cross-functional teams to come up with solutions to balance performance, cost, and quality. We are looking for someone with experience in supporting a 24x7 commercial service.

Responsibilities

• Works collaboratively with IT, Engineering, product/project managers, QA and other cross-functional teams to deliver quality support and service on time.
• Highly experienced professional, who uses proven DevOps practices in resolving critical issues and broad design matters.
• Works with cloud providers like AWS and Google Cloud, as well as external technical support on upgrades, design issues, and problem resolution.
• Monitors and tunes appropriate systems to ensure optimum level of performance.
• Participate in on-call rotation, which includes 24x7 support of multiple complex environments.
• Document procedures, architectural designs.
• Monitors task automation and implements process improvements; recommends enhancements that result in increased quality and service.

Requirements

• 3 years of applicable work experience
• Knowledge of/familiarity with Kubernetes and/or Docker ecosystem
• Experience in using Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other cloud provider
• Excellent shell scripting and command line skills
• Linux administration experience
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging and cost management tools that integrate with cloud providers
• Previous continuous integration (CI) and deployment (CD) knowledge
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Availability to overlap to U.S. time zones as needed