Senior DevOps Engineer

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co; Dublin; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co in Dublin, Ireland, seeks an expert in cloud-based SRE/DevOps to scale our learning platform infrastructure. You’ll own reliability improvements and partner with SRE/DevOps teams to prioritize and implement high-impact fixes.

You will design automated pipelines, extend Kubernetes capabilities, and contribute to load testing and security improvements. Collaboration across agile teams is essential for delivering robust, scalable services.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on SRE/DevOps experience in an Agile environment.
• Ability to collaborate with engineers and operations and recommend best practices.
• Extensive experience using AWS in production environments.
• Experience resolving outages and restoring services quickly.
• Intellectual curiosity and a desire to learn and improve.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure as code, container management, and monitoring tools.

Responsabilités

• Own engineering and implementation of infrastructure reliability improvements.
• Partner with SRE/DevOps teams to refine ideas and validate proofs of concept.
• Present and validate solutions across technology teams and gain alignment.
• Automate processes and manage AWS infrastructure in collaboration with agile teams.
• Plan future state, review technologies, and drive performance and security improvements.

Connaissances

SRE/DevOps expertise

Collaboration with engineers and ops

Intellectual curiosity

Agile environment experience

Outils

AWS

Kubernetes

Linux

RDBMS

CI/CD tools

Messaging Queues

Description du poste

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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 areconstantly 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;

• Significanthands-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 usingAWS 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).