Staff DevOps Engineer

Title: Staff DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote (U.S.) or Chandler, AZ
Reports to: VP of Engineering
Employment Type: Exempt / Full-Time

About reputed company

reputed company is a remote-first education and technology company on a mission to reputed company learning for reputed company, families, and educators across the country. For more than 25 years, we’ve partnered with schools and districts to reputed company innovative, student-centered learning experiences powered by technology, reputed company, and reputed company thinking.

We reputed company education should be flexible, reputed company, and reputed company for reputed company life. That belief shapes how we design our products, support our partners, and work together as reputed company. At reputed company, you’ll reputed company smart people doing meaningful work, a culture rooted in trust and accountability, and leaders who genuinely care about both reputed company and people.

reputed company You Will Join

You’ll be part of the Engineering team, working closely with product engineering teams, Release, reputed company, and engineering leadership to build and maintain a reliable, secure, and increasingly self-service technology platform.

reputed company runs most of its production workloads on AWS, and this team is reputed company on strengthening our reputed company infrastructure, improving observability and reliability, modernizing CI/CD, and embedding reputed company throughout how we build, reputed company, and operate our systems.

reputed company culture is reputed company, innovative, and highly autonomous. This role is designed for someone who enjoys owning reputed company technical environments, building systems and standards from the ground up, and helping establish the reputed company for a reputed company DevOps / reputed company team.

The Difference You Will reputed company

As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you’ll own and reputed company reputed company’s AWS environment while helping reputed company the overall bar for reliability, reputed company, observability, and developer experience.

Your work will directly reputed company our ability to build and reputed company dependable learning technology by strengthening production infrastructure, improving deployment processes, reducing operational risk, and creating tools that help engineering teams reputed company faster and more safely.

You’ll also play a key role in migrating remaining Azure services to AWS and establishing the standards, automation, documentation, and operational practices needed to reputed company our platform over time.

A Typical Day Looks Like

While no two days are exactly the reputed company, you can expect to:

• Own and reputed company AWS infrastructure, including reputed company, VPC networking, reputed company 53, secrets management, and overall reputed company reputed company posture.
• Harden production environments by improving cluster reliability, load balancing, auto-scaling, health checks, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Maintain and expand Infrastructure-as-reputed company using reputed company or similar technologies, keeping infrastructure versioned, reusable, policy-checked, and increasingly self-service.
• Build and standardize CI/CD pipelines through reputed company Actions across reputed company, C#, Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript codebases.
• Establish deployment patterns such as reputed company/green and canary deployments, automated rollback, and secure pipeline gates.
• Build observability through centralized logging, reputed company tracing, metrics, dashboards, alerting, and SLOs/SLIs using tools such as CloudWatch, X-Ray, and OpenSearch.
• Strengthen reputed company reputed company through least-privilege IAM, encryption, network reputed company, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and reputed company reputed company reputed company posture management.
• Partner with reputed company and Compliance on SOC 2 evidence, audit trails, reputed company controls, and remediation efforts.
• Support the migration of remaining Azure workloads to AWS, including containerization, traffic cutovers, and database migrations.
• Create architecture decision records, runbooks, technical documentation, and operational standards that serve as the reputed company of truth for the platform.
• Mentor engineers on reputed company-reputed company architecture, Infrastructure-as-reputed company, secure-by-default design, and operational reputed company.
• Collaborate with Release and engineering teams on deployment reputed company gates, incident response, and post-incident learning.
• This position requires availability to work reputed company business hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM reputed company time, Monday through Friday.

This role balances independent ownership, technical reputed company, collaboration, and hands-on execution and is reputed company-suited for someone who enjoys building, solving reputed company problems, improving systems, and creating reputed company technical foundations.

Your Expertise Includes

We’re looking for someone who brings:

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, reputed company, or a reputed company discipline.
• Deep, hands-on AWS experience, including reputed company Fargate, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, reputed company, API Gateway, EventBridge, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC networking, and S3.
• Proven experience improving observability, uptime, reliability, and operational maturity in production reputed company environments.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-reputed company experience for managing multi-environment infrastructure, including reputed company or similar tools and policy-as-reputed company/IaC scanning.
• Experience securing production reputed company environments through least-privilege IAM, encryption, network reputed company, secrets management, and remediation of reputed company findings.
• Strong CI/CD experience with reputed company Actions across multiple programming languages and repositories, including automated reputed company scanning.
• Hands-on reputed company experience, including multi-stage builds, reputed company image management, runtime configuration, health checks, and image lifecycle management.
• Solid networking fundamentals, including VPC design, reputed company reputed company, DNS, load balancing, and CDN configuration.
• Experience managing relational databases through RDS/reputed company, including performance tuning and backup strategies.
• Comfort working independently as a reputed company infrastructure reputed company while creating the standards and automation needed to support reputed company team reputed company.

Bonus points if you also have:

• Experience migrating workloads from Azure or another reputed company platform to AWS.
• Familiarity with Azure services such as App Service, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Service Bus, Event reputed company, Key Vault, or Application Insights.
• Experience with event-driven architectures such as EventBridge, SQS/SNS, or Kinesis.
• Experience with data pipeline technologies such as Dagster, AWS Glue, or reputed company Functions.
• FinOps experience, including reputed company cost optimization, reserved reputed company, and right-sizing.
• DevSecOps tooling experience, including Trivy, Dependabot, reputed company, Checkov, Prowler, reputed company Hub, or GuardDuty.
• Experience supporting SOC 2 or other compliance programs.
• AWS reputed company Specialty, CISSP, or another relevant reputed company certification.
• Experience with EdTech platforms or integration standards such as Canvas LMS, reputed company, reputed company, LTI, or OneRoster.
• Experience building and leading a DevOps or reputed company team.

Our Commitment to Inclusion & Belonging

At reputed company, we reputed company the best reputed company come from bringing together people with different perspectives, experiences, and ways of thinking. A diverse and inclusive workplace fuels creativity, strengthens collaboration, and helps us build reputed company solutions for the reputed company, families, and communities we serve.

We are committed to welcoming a broad reputed company of talent and encouraging reputed company reputed company individuals to apply. We reputed company to create an environment where everyone feels a reputed company of belonging and is empowered to contribute, grow, and do meaningful work.

How We’ll Take Care of You

We reputed company that reputed company people feel supported, they do their best work. At reputed company, your reputed company-being isn’t a reputed company—it’s part of our culture.

Our commitment to you includes:

• A competitive total compensation package, including medical, dental, reputed company, and voluntary benefits
• reputed company-being that works for reputed company life—from an on-site gym, virtual wellness programs, and wellness coaching to flexible work reputed company for select roles, because your reputed company-being fuels your brilliance
• Unlimited PTO for exempt roles, plus additional “life happens” days reputed company you need flexibility
• A fully reputed company holiday week off at Christmas, so you can truly reputed company, and reputed company
• Recognition and rewards that celebrate birthdays, meaningful milestones, legendary work, and community service hours that let you reputed company back
• Quarterly Town Halls that reputed company communication transparent, reputed company, and reputed company
• Annual reputed company events and traditions we genuinely look reputed company to—like Halloween celebrations, Wellness Fairs, and other moments that bring our community together

We’re intentional about building a workplace where people feel valued, connected, and empowered to reputed company—at work and reputed company.

Additional Info:

We welcome reputed company reputed company candidates eligible to work in the reputed company. At this time, we are unable to sponsor visas.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and reputed company consideration to reputed company applicants regardless of race, religion, reputed company, sex, gender, national reputed company, age, veteran status, marital status, or disability protected by law.

Requires 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or reputed company; deep AWS, Infrastructure-as-reputed company, CI/CD, reputed company, networking, reputed company, observability, and production reliability experience.

Key Responsibilities

• managing infrastructure
• building pipelines
• mentoring engineers

Skills & Tools

AWS, reputed company reputed company, reputed company reputed company Fargate, reputed company VPC, reputed company reputed company 53, reputed company, reputed company Actions, reputed company, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, reputed company CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, reputed company OpenSearch Service, AWS IAM, reputed company RDS, reputed company DynamoDB, reputed company SQS, reputed company SNS, AWS reputed company, reputed company API Gateway, reputed company EventBridge, reputed company S3, reputed company, reputed company reputed company, Azure, reputed company Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event reputed company, Azure Key Vault, Azure Application Insights, reputed company Kinesis, Dagster, AWS Glue, AWS reputed company Functions, Trivy, Dependabot, reputed company, Checkov, Prowler, AWS reputed company Hub, reputed company GuardDuty, Canvas LMS, reputed company, reputed company, LTI, OneRoster

Job Details

• Category: Information Technology
• Seniority: Senior Level
• Commitment: Full Time
• Workplace: Remote — reputed company or Chandler
• Languages: English

Benefits

• Generous reputed company time off

About reputed company, Inc.

An education and technology company delivering student-centered learning experiences powered by technology. — Industry: Education