DevOps Engineer

Overview

Remote, or Hybrid to Wayne, PA

Overview

Frontline Education is the leading provider of school administration software, empowering strategic K-12 leaders with the right tools, data and insights to proactively manage human capital, business operations and special education. Educational organizations representing over 80,000 schools and millions of educators, administrators and support personnel have partnered with Frontline Education in their efforts to develop the next generation of learners. Frontline is dedicated to driving engagement across K-12 school systems and supporting the continuous improvement of employee effectiveness and efficiency with solutions for proactive recruiting and hiring, absence and time, professional growth, student information systems, special education and interventions, payroll, benefits and financial management. 

The DevOps Engineer works with various areas of the business to collaborate on an infrastructure strategy that is secure, scalable, high performance and aligned with the goal of continuous integration and continuous deployment.  Additionally, this team member is responsible for helping build the standards for infrastructure, deployment, and security implementations with a keen eye toward the future state of technology and the industry. This team member works closely with the Security team, the SRE team, and Development team to build the frameworks that will take our technology into the future. This team member is future-focused, capable of moving quickly and taking risks, and challenging the status quo.

Responsibilities

• Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them
• Assist other department engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other members of the team
• Provide clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution
• Work closely with development teams within the company to maintain hardware and software needed for projects to be completed efficiently
• Participate in a constant feedback loop among the community of DevOps engineering and enterprise architecture teams
• Work with software development teams to engineer and implement infrastructure solutions, including infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines
• Provide evangelism for cutting-edge, sustainable automation in continuously integrating and deploying to multiple environments

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
• Knowledge of tools, applications and architectural patterns associated with CI/CD and cloud development
• Strong understanding of security tenets
• Experience with infrastructure as code, Blue/Green deployments, and Feature Flag Frameworks
• Ability to think analytically and advocate for creative solutions
• Ability to work collaboratively with members of other teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations
• Delivery experience as a software engineer for on-premises or cloud applications
• Experience in policy/standard creation and acceptance

Who we are:

We're a group of unique and talented individuals that love what we do. We've been lucky enough to land jobs with a rapidly growing tech company that supports an appreciative and friendly customer base. We work hard to make our customers happy, but we like to have a good time in the process. We are a company that strives to think in terms of “we” instead of “me.” We believe in the philosophy of servant leadership and that it’s all about putting others first. We also value the balance between family and work.

Frontline offers a competitive compensation package including a base salary, rewarding bonus structure, 401k match, and unlimited PTO! Our company growth has created a promising environment for career advancement and rewarding challenges.

Frontline Education Vision: 

A connected future for school administration that enables every leader, teacher, and student to thrive.

Frontline Education Mission:

Partnering with the education community by providing innovative technology and best practices to empower K-12 schools in their pursuit of excellence.

Frontline Education is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.