Job Overview
At Learning A-Z, we are committed to enhancing our systems and delivering exceptional infrastructure reliability, to ensure that our teachers and students have a seamless experience. We are currently seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in guiding our team to plan and implement automation tools (such as Ansible) and containerization using Docker. Your expertise will be instrumental in optimizing our development processes, ensuring system robustness, and improving scalability. If you’re passionate about driving efficiency and innovation, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity with us!
Job Responsibilities
- Build, maintain and scale infrastructure for Production and non-Production environments.
- Develop robust tools aimed at minimizing error instances and enhancing overall customer satisfaction.
- Spearhead the establishment and maintenance of containerized environments leveraging Docker and associated technologies.
- Conduct thorough root cause analyses of production errors, effectively resolving technical challenges to ensure uninterrupted operations.
- Contribute effectively to an on-call rotation schedule, providing timely assistance as needed.
- Thoroughly document system troubleshooting procedures and maintenance protocols to ensure operational continuity.
- Drive the implementation and ongoing support of automation initiatives, leveraging tools such as Ansible to streamline processes, and enhance efficiency.
- Assist in the strategic development and rapid enterprise integration of cyber security capabilities and tools to protect our networks, systems, and information.
- Partner with our security teams to implement proactive security scanning into our CI/CD Pipelines.
- Communicate and collaborate effectively at a high level with groups such as IT Operations, Database Engineering, Application Development and Management, in support of architecture change and application availability.
Job Requirements
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering or related technical field.
- 2+ years IT industry experience with web application hosting/development, deployment and production support and command line level experience in a Linux Based environment (RHEL, CENTOS, Oracle Linux).
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with any of these container architecture and orchestration technologies: Docker, Kubernetes and similar tools.
- 2+ years of experience Architecting complex ANSIBLE playbooks or equivalent orchestration tools.
- 2+ years of implementing CI/CD pipelines.
- 2+ years hands-on cumulative experience in a development capacity using one or more of the following or similar languages: BASH, PYTHON, RUBY, PHP, NODEJS, GO.
- 2+ years AWS cloud deployment and production support experience at scale with a variety of services.
- Deployment and monitoring of highly available web applications without outage.
- Ability to perform in an on-call rotation.
Why Work With Us?
When you work with Learning A-Z, you’ll be helping students across the globe develop the comprehension, curiosity, and continued joy of learning they need to succeed in today’s world. We’ve been awarded numerous accolades from a wide variety of edtech organizations. Our flagship products Reading A-Z, Raz-Kids, and Raz-Plus are beloved by teachers and students alike, and are currently used by approximately 1/5 of public students in the United States.
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An Equal Opportunity Employer
We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.