Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

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. Get ready to roll up your sleeves to prevent and resolve issues across development, testing, and production environments.  If you thrive in a startup environment and excel at problem-solving, automation, and streamlining operations, we want you on our team!  
  

How you’ll make an impact

• Wear the hat of a hybrid DevOps and backend engineer, specializing in C#
• Collaborate in a small tech team to construct and oversee robust, secure infrastructure for diverse application platforms
• Work closely with the development team to not just maintain, but also build and improve the underlying systems to be highly available, scalable and performant
• Scale infrastructure to meet rapidly 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
• Eager to improve by constantly researching new technologies and services
• Nimble, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment 

What you'll bring to the table 

• Experience working in our tech stack – AWS or Azure, Kubernetes, ECS Fargate, Kafka, Kafka Connect, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Terraform, C#
• Any prior experience in PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch is a plus
• Strong experience in Linux and containers 
• Extensive knowledge of automated builds and deployments with a large number of pipelines
• Strong knowledge and understanding of SaaS network architecture, security, and troubleshooting techniques
• Experience creating and maintaining backup strategies as well as managing PCI-compliant production environments
• Release automation, system administration, system configuration, and system debugging experience
• Experience implementing and maintaining/monitoring alert systems with an SLA-guaranteed up-time 

*Strong proficiency in English is essential for effective communication with team members, clients, and stakeholders, as well as for understanding and contributing to technical documentation and discussions conducted in English.*

Beyond the paycheck   

As an early employee, you will be a critical part of our core team and influence the direction of the company. We offer competitive compensation, early-stage equity, a full suite of benefits, unlimited PTO, and investment in your career development.    

• Compensation - $150,000-$170,000/year + equity + benefits