Job description

We are looking to hire a Senior DevOps Engineer in UK for a global technology company in the Higher Education Tech space. They are a global, enterprise SaaS company with 7M+ students in 25 countries actively using their platform. They are working with higher education institutions internationally across North America, Europe and the UK.

Tens of thousands of university administrators and millions of students rely on their products to do their work. Ensuring that systems are highly available, and that the product & engineering teams can iterate rapidly to deliver value are critical to their work of improving student success. They are looking for people with a strong background (and interest) in infrastructure, systems and DevOps engineering to help them architect, build, as well as maintain their ever-expanding platform. As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will be working across their entire technology stack and with all engineering teams to help make their products more reliable and easier to work with than ever before. Your work will not only directly and tangibly impact all engineers on the team, but also the success of millions of students across the world.

In terms of the role and responsibilities, you will

Design, build, manage, and improve the core infrastructure used by all of the engineering teams
Help debug production issues across various services and levels of stack, and improve the observability and traceability of systems to make the process more efficient
Help scrutinize, reason, and drive the technology and architecture choices they make in building the platform
Work with the other engineers and architects to ensure that the development, testing, and deployment of their technology is as easy and dependable as possible
Help ensure that the security of systems is state-of-the-art and exceeds the requirements and expectations of their higher education customers
Help to continuously improve the team processes of the engineering team

What we're looking for

Have at least 5 years of experience in a Infrastructure Engineering role or DevOps Engineering role, with a focus on cloud-hosted microservice-based technologies
Have a strong systems engineering background and be interested in building durable systems
Care deeply about the reliability and ease-of-use of infrastructure, and want to empower the rest of the engineering team to do more with less
Have extensive experience operating within at least one popular cloud hosting provider (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
Have extensive experience building highly available, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure that utilize a variety of technologies and data stores, including private cloud networking topologies, load-balanced web applications, Nginx, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
Have experience administrating and optimizing common databases such as MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB
Be proficient in Python or a similar scripting language
Have good administrative Linux skills

What will make you stand out

Experience working with Python web applications
Experience working in enterprise technology space, with a higher level of compliances on security (e.g. in education or healthcare technology)
AWS Solutions Architect/DevOps Engineer certification, or similar for other providers
Experience leading Infrastructure Team or DevOps team or DevOps/Infrastructure projects

What you can expect

A chance to work towards an amazing mission of helping students succeed as a team member of a global tech startup
Remote-friendly work environment:
Generous paid vacation time
Continuous learning and growth culture with many opportunities to develop professionally
Health Benefits including health, dental, life , disability insurance and travel coverage
A chance to work with a global collaborative, friendly and diverse team