Job description

Our client is a growing part of the Higher Education technology industry. They are a Global SaaS EdTech Company with over 425 campus partners and 2 million students actively using their platform.

They help higher education institutions better engage their students, improve the student life experience on campus, and student success. They are committed to improving student success and college graduation rates worldwide by crafting digital experiences that build communities and increase student engagement.

Tens of thousands of university administrators and millions of students rely on their products to do their work. Ensuring that their systems are highly available and that their product & engineering teams can iterate rapidly to deliver value is critical to improving student success. So they are looking for people with a strong background (and interest) in systems and DevOps engineering to help architect, build, as well as maintain their ever-expanding platform. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be working across their entire technology stack and collaborate with all engineering teams to help make their products more reliable and easier to work with than ever before. Your work will directly and tangibly impact all engineers on the team and the success of millions of students across the world.

In terms of the role and responsibilities, you will:

Design, build, manage, and improve the core infrastructure used by all of their engineering teams.
Help debug production issues across various services and levels of stack and improve the observability and traceability of systems to make the process more efficient.
Help scrutinize, reason, and drive the technology and architecture choices we make in building the platform.
Work with the other engineers and architects to ensure that their technology's development, testing, and deployment are as easy and dependable as possible.
Help ensure that the security of systems is state-of-the-art and exceeds the requirements and expectations of their higher education customers.
Help to continuously improve the team processes of the engineering team.

You should:

Have at least 5 years of experience in a DevOps Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering role, with a focus on cloud-hosted micro service-based technologies
Have a strong systems engineering background and be interested in building durable systems
Care deeply about the reliability and ease-of-use of infrastructure, and want to empower the rest of the engineering team to do more with less
Have extensive experience operating within at least one popular cloud hosting provider (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
Have extensive experience building highly available, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure that utilizes a variety of technologies and data stores, including private cloud networking topologies, load-balanced web applications, Nginx, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
Have experience administrating and optimizing common databases such as MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB
Be proficient in Python or a similar scripting language.

Nice to haves:

Experience working in enterprise technology space, with a higher level of compliance on security (e.g. in education or healthcare technology)
AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer certification, or similar for other providers

They live their values every day through their work. Here's what you can expect and what they are looking for -

Put Student Success First: The team exists to improve student success.

Accomplish More as a Team: The team comprises passionate, hardworking people who support, care for and challenge each other to achieve wins together.

Have a Learning Mentality: They look for intellectually curious people who never stop learning and growing and embrace change, which is essential at a constantly evolving tech company.

Move Fast and Innovate: To be successful on the team, you will need to be self-motivated and confident to act in an empowered manner.

What you'll like about them

A chance to work where you can make an impact on student success in higher education
100% WFH opportunity
Access to the latest technologies/software
Paid Holidays and Sick Days
Benefits: Health Dental, Vision
Life Insurance
A positive results and value-driven environment
Opportunity for career development and growth