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!

You’ll be in great company: 

Work alongside our seasoned leadership team that has successfully built and sold start-ups within the education technology space. We partnered with Cie, a venture studio that brings ideas, resources, and talent together.

**This position is for one of Cie's startup partners. This is a full-time opportunity within the startup organization, not Cie.**

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

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.

$150,000/year to $170,000/year equity benefits