DevOps Engineer

Atexo; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a forward-thinking DevOps Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role involves collaborating with various departments to develop a secure and scalable infrastructure strategy, focusing on continuous integration and deployment. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud platforms and CI/CD tools, with a passion for driving technological advancements. As a key player in this organization, you'll have the opportunity to influence the future of technology in the education sector, working closely with security and development teams to create cutting-edge solutions that enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools and security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and improve current technology to enhance efficiency.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement infrastructure solutions.

Skills

Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

CI/CD Tools and Applications

Security Best Practices

Infrastructure as Code

Analytical Thinking

Collaboration Skills

Communication Skills

On-Premises to Cloud Migrations

Software Engineering

Policy and Standard Creation

Job description

Overview

Remote, or Hybrid to Wayne, PA

Frontline Education is the leading provider of school administration software, empowering strategic K-12 leaders with the right tools, data and insights to proactively manage human capital, business operations and special education. Educational organizations representing over 80,000 schools and millions of educators, administrators and support personnel have partnered with Frontline Education in their efforts to develop the next generation of learners. Frontline is dedicated to driving engagement across K-12 school systems and supporting the continuous improvement of employee effectiveness and efficiency with solutions for proactive recruiting and hiring, absence and time, professional growth, student information systems, special education and interventions, payroll, benefits and financial management.

The DevOps Engineer works with various areas of the business to collaborate on an infrastructure strategy that is secure, scalable, high performance and aligned with the goal of continuous integration and continuous deployment. Additionally, this team member is responsible for helping build the standards for infrastructure, deployment, and security implementations with a keen eye toward the future state of technology and the industry. This team member works closely with the Security team, the SRE team, and Development team to build the frameworks that will take our technology into the future. This team member is future-focused, capable of moving quickly and taking risks, and challenging the status quo.

Responsibilities

• Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them
• Assist other department engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other members of the team
• Provide clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution
• Work closely with development teams within the company to maintain hardware and software needed for projects to be completed efficiently
• Participate in a constant feedback loop among the community of DevOps engineering and enterprise architecture teams
• Work with software development teams to engineer and implement infrastructure solutions, including infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines
• Provide evangelism for cutting-edge, sustainable automation in continuously integrating and deploying to multiple environments

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
• Knowledge of tools, applications and architectural patterns associated with CI/CD and cloud development
• Strong understanding of security tenets
• Experience with infrastructure as code, Blue/Green deployments, and Feature Flag Frameworks
• Ability to think analytically and advocate for creative solutions
• Ability to work collaboratively with members of other teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations
• Delivery experience as a software engineer for on-premises or cloud applications
• Experience in policy/standard creation and acceptance