Ignite Reading
Senior DevOps Engineer
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ March 5th, 2024
Docker Jenkins PythonIgnite Reading teaches kids to read.
Today, 67% of students and 82% of low-income students can’t read at grade level by the end of third grade. That’s when you are supposed to go from learning to read to reading to learn. It’s America’s number one education crisis and we know how to fix it.
Ignite teaches kids to read by providing 15 minutes a day of 1:1 virtual reading instruction. We focus on the reading fundamentals (letters, phonics, and sight words) kids need to master so they can decode a sentence. Our program accelerates reading progress 2.4x and we are disrupting how schools think about reading instruction.
Ignite launched our first school implementation in the fall of 2021. Sixteen months later, we will have grown our number of schools and students 35x.
Ignite Reading is a mission-driven public benefit corporation. We believe we can do well for our team members and shareholders while we solve one of the nation’s biggest challenges. We believe we will be more successful with a diverse team and are seeking candidates who have lived experience related to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Your Role
Ignite uses technology to enable the delivery of our virtual tutoring services, maximize the learning of our students, and accelerate our ability to scale. To this end, our engineering team is focused on four key technology needs:
- A tutoring logistics platform, which enables us to schedule, conduct and report on our tutoring sessions.
- A tutor workflow platform, which lets tutors know exactly what to teach each student every day.
- An extended learning application, which enables students to practice what they learn in their tutoring sessions after they return to the classroom or go home at night.
- An AI/ML implementation, which will enable us to ensure lesson fidelity as we scale.
Reporting to the VP of Engineering, the Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for managing and automating our cloud infrastructure, deploying and monitoring applications, and ensuring high availability and performance of our systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including development, operations, security, and product management, to design and implement DevOps processes and tools.
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated application deployment and testing.
- Monitor and troubleshoot system performance, scalability, and security issues.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure that applications are optimized for performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Implement and maintain system monitoring and alerting tools, such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Grafana.
- Ensure that systems are compliant with industry best practices and security standards, such as PCI, HIPAA, or SOC 2.
- Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents in a timely and effective manner.
Competencies
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Strong experience with cloud infrastructure and automation tools, especially Terraform.
- Expertise in CI/CD pipeline tools, such as Jenkins, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker or AWS ECS.
- Proficiency in scripting languages, such as Bash, Python, or Ruby.
- Knowledge of system monitoring and alerting tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
- Familiarity with security standards and compliance, such as PCI, HIPAA, or SOC 2.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience at early stage startups is a plus
- Ability to be self-managing and flexible while working in a remote environment
- Ability to roll up your sleeves and do whatever it takes to get the job done while balancing long-term projects with the urgency of immediate demands in a fast-paced start-up environment.
Additional Details
- At Ignite! Reading, we believe in building and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where all applicants are considered for employment without attention to color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
- We are a virtual organization with headquarters in the California Bay Area.
- We offer competitive compensation, equity, and generous benefits packages.
Apply
- If you are passionate about DevOps and have the skills and experience we are looking for, we would love to hear from you. Please apply with your resume and a cover letter explaining why you are the right candidate for this role.
At Ignite Reading, we believe in building and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where all applicants are considered for employment without attention to color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements. We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested!
We are seeking candidates who have lived experience related to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are a virtual organization with headquarters in the California Bay Area.
