Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Strategic Education, Inc. is dedicated to revolutionizing online education through its products like Sophia Learning and Workforce Edge. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support these platforms, focusing on designing scalable solutions, mentoring engineers, and ensuring operational reliability.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and implement scalable, cloud-native solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using serverless technologies (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions) and Kubernetes (GKE)
- Lead end-to-end delivery of infrastructure and platform solutions, including design, development, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement
- Own and evolve the organization’s CI/CD strategy, including build automation, testing gates, and production deployment workflows
- Design and maintain containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes), including Helm charts, autoscaling strategies, and service mesh configurations
- Build and optimize serverless architectures to improve scalability and reduce operational overhead and cost
- Establish and enforce best practices for scalability, availability, security, and performance across production systems
- Drive observability and monitoring strategies (logging, alerting, incident response)
- Lead production support and reliability efforts, including incident management, root cause analysis, and postmortems
- Mentor engineers on cloud architecture, DevOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code patterns
- Partner cross-functionally with product, security, and engineering teams to deliver business value quickly
- Manage complex initiatives in an agile environment, balancing technical debt with feature delivery
- Identify and evaluate emerging technologies, rapidly prototyping solutions to inform technical direction
- Champion automation, process improvement, and tooling modernization across engineering
Skills
- 5+ years of DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with GCP
- 3+ years of Kubernetes experience
- Strong experience with serverless architectures
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code
- Hands-on experience with Docker and container registries
- Familiarity with Kubernetes autoscaling and node provisioning tools
- Expert-level experience with CI/CD tools
- Strong proficiency with Git
- Experience with scripting and automation
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools
- Experience working with databases and distributed systems
- Familiarity with security scanning and vulnerability management tools
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
- Must be able to travel 10% of time
- Must be able to lift 20 lbs
- Typical office setting
- Mobility within the office including movement from floor to floor
- Travel via plane, car, and metro may be required to perform this job
- Must be able to work more than 40 hours per week when business needs warrant
- Access information using a computer
- Effectively communicate, both up and down the management chain
- Effectively cope with stressful situations
- Strong mental acuity
- Regular, dependable attendance and punctuality are essential functions of this job
- Familiarity with AI coding assistants and integrating them into engineering workflows
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines that incorporate automated analysis or decision-making alongside traditional processes
- Understanding of when to apply automation vs. human judgment, with appropriate safeguards
- Interest in evolving the SDLC through AI-driven practices such as prompt engineering and tool orchestration
- GCP Professional certifications
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans
- Well-being incentives
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Certain paid holidays
- Tax saving accounts (FSA, HSA)
- 401(k) retirement benefit
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Tuition assistance
- Entertainment and retail discounts
- Overtime pay, if applicable
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