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LearnZillion Senior DevOps Engineer

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Headquarters: Washington, DC
URL: https://learnzillion.com

Overview

Do you want to work with a social venture that delivers the highest-quality K-12 curricula in the best way? Then consider joining LearnZillion. We empower educators to provide students with the education necessary for a successful future. Help us change the paradigm of curriculum, publishing, and content. 1 in 3 US teachers already use LearnZillion.

We are looking for a senior operations engineer to help us deliver essential content and tools for teachers, students, districts, and parents. You will play a key role in building LearnZillion’s infrastructure and shaping its future. You will report to the CTO and work closely with Engineering & Design coworkers, product managers, academics, and user community to build our world-class application.

You should be well-versed in devops practices, tools, and AWS.

Our Technology Stack

Amazon Web Services (EC2, Route53, S3, etc.)
Ruby on Rails
AWS RDS Postgres
AWS Elasticsearch Service
Nginx
Unicorn
AWS ElastiCache Redis
Sidekiq Pro
GitHub, Code Climate, Circle CI, automated Cucumber test suite
Salt
Terraform
Docker & Docker Compose (local and CI)
Gruntwork
Datadog

Key Responsibilities

Architect, configure, and maintain LearnZillion’s production, staging, and development environments
Develop automation and tooling for configuration, deployment, monitoring, backup/recovery, etc.
Measure, analyze, and monitor the infrastructure for availability, performance, and security
Design and implement processes to maintain overall system security

Qualifications

3+ years of solid Linux/UNIX systems engineering, administration, and automation
Knowledge and experience in deploying web applications, preferably Ruby on Rails
Intrinsically-motivated individual who loves to ship quality infrastructure often

Benefits