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Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers.

Position Overview

Teaching Strategies is looking for a highly talented, innovative and personable DevOps Manager to join its technology team. As a DevOps Manager, you will be responsible for maintaining and executing organizational policies and procedures for change management, configuration management, infrastructure and release and deployment management, service monitoring, support and people management. DevOps Manager is also partly a hands-on technical role and requires a thorough understanding of all components of a modern web application stack, including front-end, backend, database, networking, and systems-level knowledge. The ideal candidate will bring forward innovative and creative ideas around performance, security, CI/CD and system design in order to help us build and roll out technology solutions for our products.

Specific Roles & Responsibilities:

• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and application system tuning
• Design and implement innovation solutions that improve software development velocity, infrastructure resiliency, security, and data availability
• Progress adoption and maximize efficiency of DevOps tooling and practice
• Manage geographically distributed operations team to maintain SLAs of systems, proactive reviews of systems health and initiation and execution of projects to further improve systems resiliency
• Address critical severity issues with full support and accountability of core engineering teams
• Manage and oversee proactive reviews and audits of production systems, issue triage and follow up
• Recommend and facilitate implementation of infrastructure enhancements as required to maintain systems performing in response to business growth
• Allocate resources and prioritize regular maintenance and operations activities
• Manage and facilitate security processes and best practices
• Identify requirements and oversee implementation of monitors and escalation procedures

Qualifications:

• Familiarity with a wide range of systems engineering tools, including source code repository hubs, continuous integration services, issue tracking, test automation, deployment automation, development team collaboration, and project management
• Knowledge of DevOps tools, such as, New Relic, Bitbucket/Git, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, PagerDuty, Puppet/Chef/Ansible/SaltStack
• Strong scripting skills, bash, Python, Go, JavaScript
• Understanding of enterprise Git repositories including branching and forking
• Experience with Linux, AWS, Kubernetes configuration, management, and tuning and hardening

Why Teaching Strategies

At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve.

Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies!

Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies

Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include:

• Competitive compensation package, including Employee Equity Appreciation Program
• Health insurance benefits
• 401k with employer match
• 100% remote work environment
• Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition assistance and Professional development and growth opportunities
• 100% paid life, short and long term disability insurance
• Pre-tax medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA)
• Voluntary life and critical illness insurance

Teaching Strategies, LLC is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer of Minorities, all Genders, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.