Senior DevOps Engineer

Your Family

is a B2B2C SaaS-based marketplace supporting institutions, recruiters and students within the international student placement sector. Our innovative platform allows institutions, recruiters and students to directly connect with one another, resulting in matching the right international study experience with students across the world.

Founded in 2018, we're on a mission to change the way the world accesses international education. Behind the technology, we have over 500 amazingly talented humans making it all happen. We're looking for ambitious self-starters who want to be part of our vision and create a positive legacy.

Your Community

The Product and Tech team is responsible for growing products for universities, students and recruitment agents. The team is accountable for the product strategy, development and execution across Adventus to deliver world class experiences for students considering studying in higher education while delivering undeniable value and experience for our partners.

Your Position

You will work in an agile environment alongside application developers on a vast array of initiatives as we deploy exciting new application features to AWS hosted environments. A portion of your time will be spent assisting the Data Analytics team in building our big data collection and analytics capabilities to uncover customer, product, and operational insights.

Your Contribution

· Collaborate with other Software Engineers & Data Engineers to evaluate and identify optimal cloud architectures for custom solutions. You will design, build, and deploy AWS applications at the direction of other architects including data processing, statistical modelling, and advanced analytics.

· Design for scale, including systems that auto-scale and auto-heal. Via automation, you will relentlessly strive to eliminate manual toil.

· Maintain cloud stacks utilised in running our custom solutions, troubleshoot infrastructure related issues causing solution outage or degradation, and implementing necessary fixes. You will implement monitoring tools and dashboards to evaluate health, usage and availability of custom solutions running in the cloud.

· Assist with building, testing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and other tools to allow for the speedy deployment and release of solutions in the cloud.

· Consistently improve the current state by regularly reviewing existing cloud solutions and making recommendations for improvements (such as resiliency, reliability, autoscaling, and cost control), and incorporating modern infrastructure as code deployment practices using tools such as Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible, etc.

· Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues. You will collaborate with our Security Guild members to implement company preferred security and compliance policies across the cloud infrastructure running our custom solutions.

· Build strong cross functional partnerships - This role will interact with business and engineering teams, representing many different types of personalities and opinions.

Your Backstory

· Minimum 4+ years work experience as a DevOps Engineer building AWS cloud solutions

· Strong experience in deploying infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform and Cloudformation

· Strong experience working with AWS services like ECS, EC2, RDS, Cloudwatch, Systems Manager, Eventbridge, Elasticache, S3 and Lambda

· Strong scripting experience with languages like Bash and Python

· Understanding of Full Stack development

· Proficiency with GIT

· Experience in container orchestration(kubernetes)

· Implementing CI/CD pipeline in the project

· Sustained track record of making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to building, monitoring, securing, and maintaining cloud-native solutions, including data processing and analytics solutions through services such as Segment, BigQuery and Kafka

· Exposure to the art of ETL, automations tools such as AWS Glue and presentation layer services such as Data Studio and Tableau

· Knowledge of web services, API, and REST

· Exposure to deploying applications and microservices written in programming languages such as PHP and NodeJS to AWS

· A belief in simple solutions (not easy solutions) and can accept consensus even when you may not agree

· Strong interpersonal skills, you communicate technical details articulately and have demonstrable creative thinking and problem-solving abilities with a passion for learning new technologies quickly

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Health insurance

Work Location: In person