Senior DevOps Engineer Full Time

Summary:

• We’re passionate about leveraging the power of data to drive better educational outcomes for students.
• Our team is dedicated to innovating and implementing cutting-edge technology that enhances the student lifecycle and leads to improved results.
• We’re seeking a proactive Senior DevOps Engineer to deploy and manage our critical systems while contributing to backend development.
• The role involves hybrid work as a DevOps and backend engineer, specializing in C#.
• Ideal candidates thrive in a startup environment, excelling at problem-solving, automation, and streamlining operations.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate in a small tech team to construct and oversee robust, secure infrastructure for diverse application platforms.
• Work closely with the development team to maintain and improve underlying systems for availability, scalability, and performance.
• Scale infrastructure to meet increasing demand and improve automated deployments, monitoring, management, and incident response.
• Monitor site database stability/performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Create and execute load and performance tests.
• Proactively meet standards for information security and compliance.
• Research and implement new technologies and services to improve operations.
• Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.

Requirements:

• Experience working in AWS or Azure, Kubernetes, ECS Fargate, Kafka, Kafka Connect, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Terraform, and C#.
• Additional experience in PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch is a plus.
• Strong experience in Linux and containers.
• Knowledge of automated builds and deployments with numerous pipelines.
• Familiarity with SaaS network architecture, security, and troubleshooting techniques.
• Experience creating and maintaining backup strategies and managing PCI-compliant production environments.
• Expertise in release automation, system administration, configuration, and debugging.
• Experience implementing and maintaining/monitoring alert systems with SLA-guaranteed uptime.
• Strong proficiency in English for effective communication and technical documentation.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation: $150,000 – $170,000/year + equity.
• Full suite of benefits.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Investment in career development.
• Opportunity to be a critical early-stage employee, influencing company direction.