Principal DevOps Engineer (PeopleFluent)

Open LMS; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Open LMS is seeking a senior infrastructure leader to own the design, automation, and operation of hybrid hosting infrastructure across on-prem and AWS. You will set technical direction for compute, networking, and platform services, drive scalability and reliability, and mentor teams.

You will lead end-to-end projects, govern changes, and collaborate with engineering and product teams. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of industry experience, strong virtualization, cloud, and observability

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of industry experience.
• Experience with Enterprise Linux (SELinux policies, standard configuration and enforcement, headless server management).
• Strong network fundamentals (DHCP, subnetting).
• Experience with virtualization platforms (Proxmox, vSphere) including advanced cluster config and networking.
• Experience administering monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Experience with Git, shell scripting.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Route53).
• Hands-on provisioning/orchestration/administration with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes.
• Experience with release and deploy automation using Jenkins.
• Experience with structured change control processes (Git workflows).

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain hosting pipeline and automation infrastructure.
• Lead architectural direction for hosting infrastructure across compute, networking, and platform services.
• Identify infra optimization opportunities and drive improvements.
• Scale and secure the company’s infrastructure hands-on.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to define requirements.
• Communicate trade-offs of technical design.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Infrastructure automation

Mentoring

Security and reliability

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Git

Shell scripting

Proxmox

vSphere

AWS

Job description

Job Overview:

You have 10+ years of experience and own the design, automation, and operation of hybrid infrastructure spanning on‑premises datacenters and AWS. You set technical direction for compute, networking, and platform services, and drive improvements in scalability, security, and reliability. You lead advanced projects end to end, document and govern changes through structured processes, and mentor others across hosting. You are a Subject Matter Expert in one or more infrastructure domains, such as virtualization, cloud architecture, or observability.

Responsibilities:

• Own and maintain Peoplefluent Hosting pipeline and automation infrastructure.
• Own the technical vision and architecture for the hosting infrastructure, setting direction across compute, networking, and platform services to ensure design decisions align with long‑term scalability, security, and maintainability goals.
• Be a self starter - proactively identify the infra optimization opportunities.
• Be hands‑on in scaling and securing the company’s infrastructure.
• Collaborate across engineering and product teams to define requirements
• Communicate trade‑offs of technical design.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of industry experience
• Experience with Enterprise Linux(selinux policies, standard configuration and enforcement, headless server management etc)
• Strong network fundamentals(dhcp, subnetting)
• Experience with virtualization platforms (e.g., Proxmox, vSphere), including advanced cluster configuration and networking such as VLANs, virtual switches, and network segmentation.
• Experience in owning and administering monitoring/observability tools - Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.
• Experience in git, shell scripting
• Strong knowledge and experience with AWS: EC2, S3, RDS, Route53 etc..
• Hands on experience with the provisioning/orchestration/Administration: Terraform, ansible, kubernetes
• Experience in release and deploy automation using Jenkins
• Experience managing configuration changes through a structured change control process, including but not limited to Git-based workflows such as branching, pull requests, and code review.

Bonus points:

• Experience in datacenter operations - e.g., network switches automated configuration.
• Experience in automating basic firewall rules
• Database administration(Oracle, MySql, PostgreSql, Microsoft SQL)
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Kafka
• Experience working in an Agile and Scrum environment
• Web-based/SaaS company background
• Startup experience

Join us in reshaping how hosting is built, and help create industry‑leading solutions that are scalable, reliable, and cost‑effective.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.