At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.
Job Description for Senior DevOps Engineer
Summary:
This position is part of the expanding DevOps group that combines teamwork, innovation, work/life balance, and autonomy. You will contribute to the
evolution of our AWS cloud infrastructure that supports Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready SaaS application as well as internal systems.
In a single program, i-Ready integrates powerful assessments and rich insights with effective and engaging instruction in reading and mathematics to address
students’ individual needs. i-Ready empowers teachers every day to make more informed instructional decisions and motivates students with access to their
own personalized path to growth. Want to be part of our impact? Join us!
Essential duties/responsibilities:
You will develop and advance our (“shift left”) capabilities in Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
You will build, operate, scale, and troubleshoot the Curriculum Associates SaaS infrastructure in an Agile environment.
You will debug Maven and Webpack builds.
You will enhance our monitoring tools, build infrastructure, and source code management. In collaboration with other teams, you’ll make sure our
infrastructure and applications that depend on it work together seamlessly.
You will support other teams’ build and infrastructure needs on an as needed basis.
You will write tools for systems and infrastructure automation.
As part of an on-call rotation, you’ll provide operations coverage
Required Job Skills and Abilities:
Comfort with working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to multi-task.
General analysis/problem solving and ability to develop creative solutions.
AWS Cloud technology experience
Required Education and Experience:
7+ years of DevOps experience
Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes.
Infrastructure as Code approaches: Puppet (or Chef/Ansible/Salt) and Terraform (or CloudFormation) experience.
Experience with languages such as Python/Go
Experience with MySQL, Java/Tomcat/Apache, Splunk, and open-source tools for systems monitoring/management.
Experience with Git, Jenkins, and Nexus
Experience using ECS or other container orchestrators.
Experience operating a 24/7 production web application.
Comfort with working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to multi-task.
General analysis/problem solving and ability to develop creative solutions.
Amazon Web Services experience (EC2, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, DynamoDB) very desirable
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience in a technical capacity
