Lead Devops Engineer
Posted on 3/23/2023
INACTIVE
Online platform connecting learners with expert tutors
Company Overview
Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company, stands out as a leading platform for live online learning, offering a comprehensive range of learning experiences across 3,000+ subjects. Their proprietary platform utilizes AI to connect learners with experts, providing a high-value learning environment that is accessible to individuals, schools, and other institutions. Testimonials from users highlight the company's effectiveness, with students reporting significant improvements in their grades and a reduction in study time, demonstrating the company's commitment to delivering personalized, high-quality education.
AI & Machine Learning
Education
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$407M
Founded
2007
Headquarters
Clayton, Missouri
Growth & Insights
Headcount
6 month growth
↑ 7%1 year growth
↑ 10%2 year growth
↑ 10%Locations
Remote
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Kubernetes
Python
Management
Git
Ruby
AWS
Go
Terraform
Development Operations (DevOps)
CategoriesNew
DevOps & Infrastructure
Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience enabling developers through DevOps
- 2+ years as a Lead with experience in leading, coordinating, and delivering cross-team projects of considerable scope and complexity
- Industry experience with security and vulnerability of cloud infrastructure (prevention, detection, and remediation)
- Strong experience building and maintaining AWS (Amazon Web Services) infrastructure (EC2, ELB, ALB, VPC, IAM, Route53, Lambda, Kinesis, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Experience deploying and managing infrastructure with CloudFormation, CDK, and Terraform
- Experience with various programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Golang, shell)
- Strong experience with pipeline tools such as GitHub and Artifactory
- Diligent mentality, robust sense of responsibility/accountability and strong verbal/written communication, documentation, and collaboration skills
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with a team to develop and enhance amazing platforms and services
- Familiarity with SOC2, SOX and FERPA compliance
Responsibilities
- Creation and management of AWS cloud infrastructure and configuration as well as ensuring systems and services are leveraging best practices, security, and standards
- Strong experience and expertise with managing, securing, and scaling Kubernetes
- Provide strong partnership with development teams to develop internal platforms and services to enable expediency and self-service for development teams
- Provide partnership with other teams such as financial, legal, and operations
- Provide, maintain, and optimize the build process to support continuous integration
- Investigates, debugs and drives improvements to the engineering and build automation process
- Support and improve efficiency and effectiveness of tools (CI/CD, automated testing, automation and release)
- Conduct security risk assessment activities including threat modeling, vulnerability analysis and analysis of mitigation solutions
- Work cross-functionally to assess risk and help deliver countermeasures that protect customers and company data
- Ensure that the SaaS services and associated infrastructure maintain required levels of security, availability, reliability, scalability, and performance to meet SLAs
- Build incident management, operational monitoring, and alerting capabilities to proactively report, troubleshoot, and fix problems
- With the team, own vendor management for existing and new vendors the team leverages
- Regular on-call rotations for team owned services and infrastructure