WHO ARE YOU? You have a wide range of technical, development and operational knowledge that makes it easy to understand technical requirements and produce quality solutions. You welcome the opportunity to work collaboratively with others in an agile and fast-paced environment.
WHO ARE WE? We are passionate, innovative, lifelong learners, and creative thinkers working to develop culturally authentic language learning products for K-12 schools and universities.
WHAT IS THE ROLE ABOUT? As our DevOps Engineer, you will utilize your technical and operational knowledge when working collaboratively with our engineering teams to define, build, and manage our AWS infrastructure. You will help introduce new services and tools that support application development and enhance operational performance and visibility. You will work alongside the security team to strengthen system and data security safeguards, and to achieve security compliance certifications.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:
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Work with senior engineers as well as the DevOps Director to deliver quality automated DevOps solutions when provided with a set of requirements.
- Fix issues related to CI/CD pipelines for our multiple software applications and environments to improve build, test, and deploy processes.
- Be an enthusiastic, careful and competent team member responsible for deploying various applications into production.
- Create and update Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to make changes to our cloud-based infrastructure.
- Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineer to create and maintain monitoring & alerting systems that guarantee high availability and performance for software applications.
- Serve in an on-call capacity when outages occur, providing assistance with troubleshooting and outage remediation.
- Other duties and responsibilities assigned as needed.
YOU MUST HAVE (MINIMUM REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE)
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High School Diploma/GED + related work experience
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3+ years of experience a DevOps role
- Advanced knowledge of Terraform, Packer or Chef
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Solid technical work experience with/within and knowledge of:
- At least one coding language (i.e. Ruby)
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Building efficient CI/CD solutions
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Core AWS web application service (EC2, S3, Route53, RDS, etc.)
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SQL and document-oriented databases
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APM/logging services like Newrelic or Datadog
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Git and Github
- Hosting complex, large-scalable web applications
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Docker or other containerization tools
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Implementing and operating enterprise-scale monitoring tools including New Relic or Datadog
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Agile processes
- Flexible, fast-paced environments
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Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills to accurately translate and convey technical information to non-technical audience(s)
IDEAL IF YOU HAVE (PREFERRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE)
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Project Management experience
- Hands-on experience with:
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Ruby, Python or BASH
- Container orchestration tools (i.e. Kubernetes/EKS or ECS) in a production environment
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Strong documentation skills
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Industry familiarity and experience in edtech
LOCATION
Remote or Hybrid-Boston: Ideal candidate will reside within the Eastern United States, Eastern Standard Time Zone and/or East Coast. If 100% remote, travel to Boston, MA office location a few times per year. If local to Boston, may be required to work a 2-day Hybrid in-office/3-day remote schedule. Relocation is not available for this position.