21 Apr
DevOps Manager
California, San diego , 92101 San diego USA

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Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) develops educational opportunities for many of the most eager students in the world. Since 2003, we have trained tens of thousands of the country’s top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, learning centers, textbooks, and online learning systems. Over the years, our international online community of advanced problem solvers has grown to nearly 700,000 members. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, we have started expanding into new subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineering Manager with a vision of creating scalable, secure infrastructure and evolving the value of our growing engineering efforts, in order to create reliable and optimized applications that educate and inspire the next generation of builders. As our second full-time DevOps hire, this individual will help bootstrap a new DevOps team to strategize, design, implement, monitor, and troubleshoot our web infrastructure. They will lead and mentor other DevOps Engineers and collaborate with the engineering team to manage and automate infrastructure, including CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and application monitoring.

Potential Projects:
  • Creating and improving CI/CD pipelines and Ansible plays for our online classrooms, multiplayer math game, grading tools, and more.
  • Establishing cloud infrastructure and tools for new microservices, including email delivery, math parsing, LaTeX rendering, homework grading, etc.
  • Implementing new monitoring and scaling solutions for mission-critical services.
  • Creating and maintaining a data warehouse with Amazon Redshift.

Responsibilities & Duties:
  • Work closely with engineering leadership to strategize and advocate for the short and long term needs of our systems, as well as lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of web infrastructure and pipelines.
  • Provide hands-on technical expertise by utilizing system administration best practices to improve security, reliability, and monitoring of web applications.
  • Automate and document administration and configuration processes for test and production web servers and databases using Ansible.
  • Utilize technical knowledge to both prevent, mitigate, and respond quickly to service failures.
  • Act as a technical project manager, guiding the DevOps team in planning projects, organizing tasks, maintaining the backlog, and proactively communicating issues.
  • Manage, evaluate, motivate, give technical direction to, and foster the growth of DevOps team members.

Ideal candidates will have
  • Experience in a leadership role, preferably for a DevOps/SRE team.
  • Experience planning, designing, implementing, securing, and monitoring scalable infrastructure for web applications, especially on Linux-based platforms.
  • Experience with AWS, including EC2, S3, IAM, SES, etc.
  • Experience creating CI/CD pipelines and Ansible plays for web applications.
  • Experience writing shell scripts in bash, or other scripting languages.
  • Familiarity with PHP or Node.js.
  • Familiarity with MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache, nginx.

Schedule:Many AoPS classes will happen during weekend and weekday evening hours. In the event of an unexpected site outage or service interruption, this full-time position may require occasional night or weekend work.

Background Check: Please note that employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.

Perks and Benefits:This full-time position will be based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA. However, we are currently working remotely until it is safe to go back to the office. Some benefits of the position include:
  • Casual work environment
  • Flexible schedule
  • Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
  • 401K plan with company matching (up to 4%)
  • Year-end bonus based on individual and company performance
  • Relocation bonus (if currently located outside of San Diego)

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