Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote)

Company: Teaching Strategies, LLC
Location: Bethesda
Posted on: April 5, 2021

Job Description:

Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote) * Technology Development * Bethesda, MD, USA * Salary * Full Time Email Me Similar Jobs Email Me This Job About us Teaching Strategies is a high growth, market leading business in early childhood education. The Company provides the most innovative and effective curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family connection resources to programs serving children from birth through 3rd grade. With ground-breaking print and SaaS solutions and a strong belief that the most powerful way to impact child outcomes is to improve teacher effectiveness, Teaching Strategies has been supporting the critical work of early childhood educators for over 30 years. Located in downtown Bethesda, MD, our company's headquarters are within steps from Bethesda Row and the Bethesda Metro stop. Candidates who fit with our values, vision, and mission will find a work environment that fosters creativity, innovation and career growth. 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. What's in it for you Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include: * Company sponsored events * Professional development and growth opportunities * Tuition assistance * Competitive compensation package * Medical, dental, and vision coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and children * Pre-tax medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA) * Health savings accounts with employer contributions * 401(k) plan with employer match * Company sponsored life, short and long term disability insurance * Voluntary life and critical illness insurance * Paid parental leave programs * Flexible paid time off (which includes Winter Break) Position Overview Teaching Strategies is looking for a highly talented, innovative and creative engineer to join its technology team. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be an integral member of our Technology department and will work closely with the development, QA and release teams. The role of Senior DevOps Engineer is a hands-on technical role and requires thorough understanding of all components of a modern web application stack, including front-end, 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 and responsibilities: * Manage and automate SaaS platform across multiple environments * Support and enhance build and release processes through automation using a combination of processes and existing tools * Work with development team on software, system and delivery pipeline optimization, helping to identify and remove potential performance bottlenecks * Create and maintain system architecture, design and automation * Recommend improvements to our CI/CD solution for the platform and logging infrastructures * Troubleshoot and resolve issues in hybrid cloud environments * Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation * Propose and discuss the merits of infrastructure and tooling options * Acts as escalation pointing for troubleshooting issues * Mentors junior members of the team Qualifications: * Minimum of five (5) years of build automation and release management experience in SaaS production environment * Hands-on experience with Linux administration * Proficiency with configuration management tools, such as Ansible, Chef, Salt * Production experience in IT operations for an always-up, always-available mission critical service * Strong knowledge of ephemeral infrastructure, horizontal scaling, self-healing architectures, service discovery, logging, monitoring and alerting * Expert level experience with AWS and hybrid cloud systems/designs * Proficiency and understanding of containers (Docker/K8s) and Infrastructure as Code (IAC) * Expert understanding and ability to troubleshoot systems using TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, SSL/TLS and DNS * Proficient with multiple scripting languages such as Bash, Python, Ruby * Experience developing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar * Knowledge of best-practice security, performance and networking techniques for high-traffic public facing systems * Experience with monitoring tools such as, New Relic, Cloudwatch, and similar * Strong experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including Microsoft SQL, Postgres, MySQL and MongoDB * Excellent debugging and testing skills * A passion for learning new technologies * Expert experience with Agile methodology and software development * Experience working for a SaaS company is a plus * Strong sense of collaboration, teamwork, and accountability Teaching Strategies, LLC is an equal opportunity employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individual with Disabilities Teaching Strategies, LLC

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