Sr. DevOps Engineer
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Civitas Learning is seeking a world-class Senior DevOps Engineer to scale our ops and infrastructure to serve millions of users accessing our applications in a multi-tenant/multi-region environment. The optimal fit for this position will have a proven background scaling within Amazon Web Services. Additionally, they will have had some hands-on experience with security and compliance initiatives like SOC, SSAE 16/SAS70 Type II, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FERPA, and Sarbanes–Oxley. The optimal fit must be a leader and self-starter, organized, motivated, excellent at multi-tasking, and familiar with Agile methodologies.
This position will work with each organization in engineering to help define, scope, implement, test, deploy, and monitor existing and new infrastructure and development-related tooling necessary to scale both client and internally facing products. Security is our number one priority across the company. The ideal candidate will work with the existing Operations team to both harden and deliver security-sound products. The candidate will also optimize and elaborate on existing infrastructure components. From cross-region orchestration strategies to cost optimization, we strongly believe in continuous improvement!
About us:
Civitas Learning is a well-funded SaaS start-up based in Austin. We are setting out to transform higher education by using big data analytics to radically improve the learning experience and transform academic and financial outcomes. We are partnering with leading institutions to create the world’s first organizing platform for higher education data and translate insights from this data into actionable and consumable recommendations that are delivered through SaaS solutions. Our customer base includes the most innovative and top-performing institutions in Higher Education.
Our philosophy is simple: hire amazing engineers, give them the best tools and work environment, surround them with a great team, and help them deliver amazing software.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Linux: Debian/variants
- Python/Ruby or other object-oriented/scripting language
- Total awareness and compelling experience with Amazon AWS ecosystem, EC2, PaaS offerings (EMR, RDS, Redshift, etc.) & VPC [Be prepared to share scaling and automation war stories!]
- Networking experience (subnetting, routing, reverse-proxying)
- Orchestration experience with either Cloudformation, Ansible, Fabric or similar
- Provisioning experience with either Chef, Puppet, or SaltStack
- Packaging experiences with either APT, RPM, or Python Wheels
- Virtualization experience with either Docker, CoreOS, or Vagrant
- Service Discovery experience with either Etcd, Consul, or Zookeeper
- Metric aggregation experience with either StatsD, CollectD, or Logstash
- Metrics Visualization experience with either Graphite, Nagios, Data Dog
- Continuous Integration with Jenkins or Travis
- RDBMS experience with one or more: PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, or Oracle
- Search experience with either Elasticsearch, Solr, or Lucene
- NoSQL experience with DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, or Riak
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) such as SSH, PGP, TLS
- VCS concepts: Git, SVN
- VPN: IPSec, SSL, PPTP
- DNS: Route53
- Web servers: Apache, Nginx, Nodejs
- Directory Services/Authentication*: OpenLDAP, Kerberos, Active Directory
Optional technologies that we'd like to see:
- Apache Mesos
- Mesosphere Marathon
- HashiCorp Terraform
- Infrastructure Cost Management: Netflix/Ice, Cloud Health
- Docker Machine/Compose
- Intrusion Detection Systems: Ossec, Kismet
- Atlassian suite
- Single Sign On (SSO): LTI, Oauth, SAML, Shibboleth
If you're the right candidate, you compellingly:
- Articulate the pros/cons of custom tooling vs commercial off-the-shelf solutions to address operational concerns
- Contextually advocate automation vs orchestration
- Standardize environments and configurations
- Drive cohesive, internally-facing documentation
- Maintain a consistent ecosystem of software design principles: separation of concern, principle of least knowledge, reversibility, etc
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