Description

Position summary

DevOps Engineers are members of the Product Development team at NWEA, a high-functioning team of creative, collaborative, motivated and professional individuals driven by the singular mission of partnering to help all kids learn. We are in search of like-minded individuals who want to build and operate cutting-edge technologies to deliver a SaaS assessment platform that supports upwards of 250,000 concurrent users. If you embrace a dynamic environment, the spirit of innovation and the importance of education, then we would love to see what you can do. We are building a world class product organization that rivals the largest software as a service companies in the world.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will design, build, and manage a world class infrastructure to support NWEA's products and mission. Our team consists of forward-thinking individuals who want to disrupt the traditional mold through progressive design and implementation practices.

Anybody can hire folks to look after a 24x7 organization and you can find that job anywhere. At NWEA, you will also make a difference in education and gain both depth and breadth of knowledge and experience by being part of one of the best companies in Portland. We are growing as a DevOps organization that believes in Scaling, Transforming, Growing, Leading, and Innovating while having fun and making a difference.

Below is the fine print of the job. But what you really need to have is:

• Passion for education
• Willingness to fail, learn and grow
• Innovative spirit
• Interest in automation
• Desire to understand how your responsibilities fit into the big picture

Responsibilities

• Maintains current knowledge of latest trends in technologies leveraged by the organization
• Understands appropriate use of those technologies in the organization
• Provide accurate time estimates for tasks
• Participate in continuous integration efforts and Agile software development processes to support regular software releases for our SaaS platform
• Work with colleagues to optimize overall system performance. This includes working with applications, network, storage, database and server technology
• Take responsibility for the repeatability, availability, and quality of the automation systems from development to production
• Ensure that security is built into both the process and tools
• Communicate plans, status, and issues to management
• Perform system audits, document findings, and publish recommendations
• Ability to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as needed to support our on-call rotation
• Perform other duties as assigned to ensure the success of the team and the entire organization

Skills and abilities

• Proven analytical abilities, diagnostic skills and technical aptitude
• Demonstrated ability to work with a wide variety of individuals, in a highly collaborative, complex and changing environment
• Ability to assess the effectiveness of processes and procedures and lead improvement efforts include documenting and implementing
• Excellent listening skills and a commitment to communicate clearly, completely, and in a timely manner
• Ability to work unsupervised and seek out work with minimal direction
• Must be able to perform the physical and intellectual requirements of the role, with or without accommodation

Competencies

• Instill Trust: gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity
• Communicate Effectively: develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Customer Focus: build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions
• Drive Results: consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances

Education and experience

• Minimum bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education will be considered in lieu of a degree
• Minimum 3-5 years related experience in:
• Building and maintaining operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of infrastructure and systems
• VM virtualization
• Minimum 3-5 years AWS related experience in:

• Lambda
• ECS
• API Gateway
• Cloudwatch
• VPC
• AWS Networking
• Designing cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available in the cloud
• Building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CloudFront, S3)

• Developing and maintaining infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Experience with CI/CD processes and methods especially in the cloud with Atlassian tool sets

• Experience ensuring configuration and compliance with configuration management tools

• Experience automating using Nodejs, Python, HTML, Shell or Ruby.

• Experience in 24x7 high availability production/sustaining processes, including remote administration
• Experience or exposure with the following is a plus:
  • AMI management
  • Managing SQS Queues
  • Snowflake
  • Apigee