Production Engineer (DevOps)

1872 Consulting; Irvine (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in digital content solutions seeks a Production Engineer (DevOps Engineer) to enhance its SaaS platform's reliability and efficiency. The role involves incident management, architecture design, and automation in a fully remote work environment.

Benefits

Fully paid health and dental insurance for self and family

Fitness Incentives Package

Company 401K, 100% match up to 6% of employee contributions

Company Funded Headspace Account

Company Funded Audible for Business Account

Funded HSA account

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on Production/SRE/DevOps experience in Agile environment.
• Experience using AWS in a production environment.
• Experience with Container Management (Docker/Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Resolve production incidents; join a weekly on-call rotation for 24/7 incident response.
• Design and develop scalable architectures.
• Develop and maintain the CI/CD pipeline.

Skills

AWS

Infrastructure/Cloud automation tooling

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Cloudformation

Terraform

Packer

Helm

Job description

Production Engineer (DevOps Engineer) – 100% Remote

Company Summary: An all-in-one platform that enables entrepreneurs to create, market sell their content within a single ecosystem. Built primarily for education content, this platform's robust features has generated over $2.5Bn in sales from over 50 million experts. Whether it's online courses, membership subscriptions, or other digital products, it has helped spread knowledge, and support small businesses around the world.

Position Summary:

The DevOps Engineer or Production Engineer will contribute to a cross-functional team that takes a system-wide, holistic view of their global SaaS products to create and maintain tools and infrastructure that elevate the reliability and efficiency of the platform.

The Production Engineering team is a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our SaaS environments. We specialize in Cloud and Systems, whether it be a database, Infrastructure-as-code, the Linux kernel, or some more specific interest in scaling or distributed systems.

Salary: $120-140k
Location: 100% Remote
Team: 600 total employees, ~60 in tech team

Benefits:

• Fully paid health insurance and dental insurance for self and family
• Fitness Incentives Package
• Company 401K, 100% match up to 6% of employee contributions
• Company Funded Headspace Account
• Company Funded Audible for Business Account
• Funded HSA account

The Impact you will make

• Resolve production incidents. This includes joining a weekly on-call rotation for 24/7 incident response.
• Design and develop scalable architectures and work with application developers to ensure the architecture meets the product requirements.
• Run our AWS infrastructure with Aurora-PostgreSQL, Kubernetes and Hashicorp toolset.
• Collaborate with Business Operations on initiatives around ETL and analytics.
• Develop and maintain the CI/CD pipeline by offering self-service tools and coaching the product teams on collective ownership.
• Create tools and automation that reduce the need for writing documentation for processes and best practices.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of hands-on Production/SRE/DevOps experience in Agile environment
• Experience using AWS in a production environment – Aurora, RDS/PostgreSQL
• Infrastructure/Cloud automation tooling – Cloudformation, Terraform, Packer or Helm
• Experience with Container Management (Docker/Kubernetes)

Nice to Have's

• Software engineering experience – Ruby/RoR a big plus - C#, Java, Python
• CI/CD experience – big plus if CircleCI or ArgoCD