Senior DevOps Engineer II

At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.

This position is part of the expanding DevOps group that combines teamwork, innovation, work/life balance, and autonomy. You will contribute to the evolution of our AWS cloud infrastructure that supports Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready SaaS application as well as internal systems.

In a single program, i-Ready integrates powerful assessments and rich insights with effective and engaging instruction in reading and mathematics to address students’ individual needs. i-Ready empowers teachers every day to make more informed instructional decisions and motivates students with access to their own personalized path to growth. Want to be part of our impact? Join us!

This is a fully remote opportunity, with a strong preference for candidates located in the Boston, MA area.

The impact you’ll have:

• You will develop and advance our (“shift left”) capabilities in Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
• You will build, operate, scale, and troubleshoot the Curriculum Associates SaaS infrastructure in an Agile environment.
• You will debug Maven and Webpack builds.
• You will enhance our monitoring tools, build infrastructure, and source code management. In collaboration with other teams, you’ll make sure our infrastructure and applications that depend on it work together seamlessly.
• You will support other teams’ build and infrastructure needs on an as needed basis.
• You will write tools for systems and infrastructure automation.
• As part of an on-call rotation, you’ll provide operations coverage

Who we’re looking for:

• Comfort with working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to multi-task.
• General analysis/problem solving and ability to develop creative solutions.
• Lead and provide mentorship to team members.
• AWS Cloud technology experience

Required Education and Experience:

• 6+ years of DevOps experience
• Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes.
• Infrastructure as Code approaches: Puppet (or Chef/Ansible/Salt) and Terraform (or CloudFormation) experience.
• Experience with languages such as Python/Go
• Experience with MySQL, Java/Tomcat/Apache, Splunk, and open-source tools for systems monitoring/management.
• Experience with Git, Jenkins, and Nexus
• Experience using ECS or other container orchestrators.
• Experience operating a 24/7 production web application.
• Comfort with working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to multi-task.
• General analysis/problem solving and ability to develop creative solutions.
• Amazon Web Services experience (EC2, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, DynamoDB)
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience in a technical capacity

Travel: Travel to company offices 2-3 times a year.

Pay Range – This role’s range is $93,250. - $166,250. The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that Curriculum Associates considers in making compensation decisions based on our Compensation Philosophy. Actual base pay within that range will vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, prior experience and relevant skill sets. At Curriculum Associates, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances for each case. This role is also eligible to participate in the company bonus plan. The Company recognizes that minimum wage varies by location and will ensure all compensation decisions comply with applicable state and local laws.

Benefits – Benefit eligible employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees can enroll in our company’s 401k plan and receive an employer match. Emp