Senior Devops Engineer (Remote - Quebec)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co; Montreal (administrative region); Remote; CAD 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Montreal, QC, seeks an expert in cloud computing to join our Technical Infrastructure team as an SRE/DevOps leader. You will scale and secure our AWS-based environments, drive reliability, and partner with engineering to solve complex outages and performance challenges.

You'll own automation, CI/CD workflows, IaC practices, and container management while advancing Kubernetes capabilities and monitoring ecosystems. Collaboration across a distributed team is essential.

Qualifikationen

• Hands-on SRE/DevOps experience in an Agile environment.
• Experience using AWS in a production environment.
• Experience with infrastructure as code.

Aufgaben

• Apply deep technical knowledge to identify and prioritize infrastructure problems and solutions.
• Collaborate with SRE/DevOps teams to refine ideas and prepare proofs of concepts.
• Present and validate solutions across technology teams.
• Own and implement selected infrastructure improvements.
• Automate deployments and operational tasks for reliability.
• Design and extend automated pipelines; work on Kubernetes capabilities.
• Plan for the future by evaluating technologies and optimizing existing setups.
• Troubleshoot server, application, and performance issues in AWS environments.

Kenntnisse

SRE/DevOps

AWS

Linux

Messaging Queues

Event-driven systems

CI/CD

Scripting

Monitoring tools

Infrastructure as Code

Container management

RDBMS

Security

Distributed team

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Docker

Jobbeschreibung

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Location Designation:

Location:

Montreal, QC, CA, H2W 2R2

Job Requisition ID:

16798

Additional Locations:

Imagine your work helps millions of children to unlock their learning potential?

HMH are a learning company. Over 53 million students and teachers use our learning platform every day. And that's growing every year. You can learn more Here!

With millions of users, our technology infrastructure must be robust, responsive and highly scalable. That's where your deep Site Reliability/ DevOps expertise comes in. You'll be supporting and scaling the infrastructure needed to help millions of little learners to dream big.

At HMH, we take direct actions to attract, hire, and retain more diverse talent, nurture an inclusive workplace, and create opportunities for meaningful conversations about what it means to be antiracist. We believe that it is through learning that people find their voices, connect with others, and create a better world.

We aim to increase the diversity of our employee base by growing our diverse talent pipeline, including partnerships with organizations like Resilient Coders, Girls Write Now, Hacker X, and Editors of Color.

See here for our philosophy on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Technical Infrastructure:

• Here's just some of what we use:
• Microservices Architecture, Spring, Java & NodeJS, React, Koa, Express.js.
• You can read more on our Engineering Blog - Here.

More About your role:

This is a role withreal impact.

You'll be constantly asking; what are the most important infrastructure problems we need to solve for, today, that will increase our applications and infrastructures reliability and performance.

• You will apply your deep technical knowledge, taking a broad look at our technology infrastructure. You'll help us identify common and systematic issues and validate these, prioritizing which to strategically address first.
• We value collaboration. So, you will partner with our SRE/DevOps team, discussing and refining your ideas and preparing proof of concepts.
• You'll present and validate these across technology teams, figuring out the best solution.
• And you'll be given ownership to engineer and implement your solutions.

There's lot of interesting technology problems for you to solve, so you are constantly applying latest thinking.

These include, implementing Canary, designing a new automated pipeline solution, extension of Kubernetes capabilities, implementation of machine learning to build load testing, ensuring mutability of containerization etc.

You'll help us plan for the future.

You'll get to evaluate existing technologies and design the future state, without being afraid to challenge the status quo. And you'll regularly review existing infrastructure, looking for opportunities to improve (E.g. Service improvement, cost reduction, security, performance).

You'll also get to automate everything necessary, combining reliability with a pragmatic approach, doing it right, first time.

We're continuing our journey of making our code and configuration deployments self-serve for our development teams.

• You'll help us build and maintain the right tooling.
• And you'll have ownership to design and implement the infrastructure needed.
• You'll also be involved in the daily management of our AWS infrastructure. This means working with our Agile development teams, to troubleshoot server, application, and performance issues.

Skills and Experience:

This role is for anexpert in cloud computing environments. To thrive in this role, you have;

• Significant hands-on SRE/DevOps experiencein an Agile environment.
• You'll be able to collaborate effectively with both engineers and operations, and be comfortable recommending best practices
• Substantial experience using AWS in a production environment.
• You have the expertise and skills to navigate the AWS ecosystem, and will know when and where to recommend the most appropriate service, and/or usage pattern
• You have experienced resolving outages, and are able to quickly diagnose issues and been instrumental in restoring normal service levels
• You have an intellectual curiosity, and an appetite to learn more.
• You'll also have significant experience, and/or an interest in the following;
• Managing cloudinfrastructure as code.
• Application Container Management
• Expertise with anRDBMS. You'll know how to tune, scale and how performance and reliability are achieved.
• You're experienced working withLinux.
• You have experience with management ofMessaging Queuesandevent driven systems.
• Having considered security, you have experience working withfirewalls, network and application load balancing&secret management..
• You're used to working withCI/CD tools.
• You've usedscripting languages.
• A strong and informed point of view with respect tomonitoring toolsand how best to use them.

Additional skills:

Experience or the ability to work as amember of a distributed teamis important (as your team will be co-located).

ABOUT US:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ:HMHC) is a global learning company dedicated to changing people's lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. As a leading provider of pre-K-12 education content, services, and cutting-edge technology solutions across a variety of media, HMH enables learning in a changing landscape. HMH is uniquely positioned to create engaging and effective educational content and experiences from early childhood to beyond the classroom. HMH serves more than 50 million students in over 150 countries worldwide, while its award-winning children's books, novels, non-fiction, and reference titles are enjoyed by readers throughout the world. Follow HMH on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. For more information, visit http://careers.hmhco.com

PLEASE NOTE:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an equal employment opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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