Senior DevOps Engineer II

Curriculum Associates • Boston, MA

6h • Remote

About The Position

At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day. This position is part of the expanding DevOps group that combines teamwork, innovation, work/life balance, and autonomy. You will contribute to the evolution of our AWS cloud infrastructure that supports Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready SaaS application as well as internal systems. In a single program, i-Ready integrates powerful assessments and rich insights with effective and engaging instruction in reading and mathematics to address students’ individual needs. i-Ready empowers teachers every day to make more informed instructional decisions and motivates students with access to their own personalized path to growth. Want to be part of our impact? Join us! This is a fully remote opportunity, with a strong preference for candidates located in the Boston, MA area.

Requirements

• 6+ years of DevOps experience
• Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes.
• Infrastructure as Code approaches: Puppet (or Chef/Ansible/Salt) and Terraform (or CloudFormation) experience.
• Experience with languages such as Python/Go
• Experience with MySQL, Java/Tomcat/Apache, Splunk, and open-source tools for systems monitoring/management.
• Experience with Git, Jenkins, and Nexus
• Experience using ECS or other container orchestrators.
• Experience operating a 24/7 production web application.
• Comfort with working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to multi-task.
• General analysis/problem solving and ability to develop creative solutions.
• Amazon Web Services experience (EC2, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, DynamoDB)
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience in a technical capacity

Nice To Haves

• Lead and provide mentorship to team members.
• AWS Cloud technology experience

Responsibilities

• You will develop and advance our (“shift left”) capabilities in Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
• You will build, operate, scale, and troubleshoot the Curriculum Associates SaaS infrastructure in an Agile environment.
• You will debug Maven and Webpack builds.
• You will enhance our monitoring tools, build infrastructure, and source code management.
• In collaboration with other teams, you’ll make sure our infrastructure and applications that depend on it work together seamlessly.
• You will support other teams’ build and infrastructure needs on an as needed basis.
• You will write tools for systems and infrastructure automation.
• As part of an on-call rotation, you’ll provide operations coverage

Benefits

• Benefit eligible employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• Employees can enroll in our company’s 401k plan and receive an employer match.
• Employees have access to a flexible vacation and sick policy in addition to twelve paid holidays and a winter office closure between Christmas and New Year's, as well as a number of additional perks and benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level