Intermediate DevOps Engineer

We develop on Ruby on Rails with excellent tools, full technical control, and with clear product demand. As one of the leading product teams in western Ukraine, we invite Intermediate DevOps Engineers to apply for our open position.

Required skills

HARD SKILLS:

— 2+ years of system administration;
— Experience with monitoring and logging (ELK stack, DataDog would be a plus);
— Experience with Nginx;
— Basic knowledge of MySQL (backup, restore, maintain);
— Experience in AWS (EC2, ASG, RDS, Route53, Lambda, Redis, IAM);
— One of the scripting languages (i.e bash, python, etc);
— Experience with G Suite;
— Ability to prioritize a wide range of workloads with critical deadlines;
— Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills;
— Good troubleshooting experience;
— Understanding CI/CD principles.

SOFT SKILLS:

— Ability to prioritize a wide range of workloads with critical deadlines;
— Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills;
— Good troubleshooting experience;
— Strong communication skills in English with an ability to coordinate the incident response with urgency;
— Proper remote presence & etiquette (acknowledging requests in a timely fashion over Slack, not leaving requests unacknowledged at all);
— Effective adherence to operating procedures (organizing day-to-day work and large-scale tasks in a calm manner with priority-driven sequencing).

As a plus

— Infrastructure as code with Terraform, packer;
— Configuration management (Ansible);
— Experience with Docker, Kubernetes;
— Experience with high load projects;
— Understanding proxying principles;
— Experience with Ruby on Rails (Capistrano deployment).

We offer

— Competitive salary and opportunities for career development
— Professional growth in the international business environment
— Cozy fully-equipped office in Ivano-Frankivsk or Kyiv (or remote).
— Great work-life balance with flexible working hours and free office lunches.
— Friendly atmosphere, group activities, and corporate events
— Paid vacation and stipend for Language classes, gym, external events, and conferences, etc.
— Retina MacBook Pro or another laptop of your specification, peripherals, and displays included
— Regular performance reviews.

Responsibilities

— Reliably automate the server provisioning process to reduce the labour of our R&D team;
— Support scalable infrastructure to manage high-load, concurrent sessions to support ~50 mm monthly page views and 500k+ active users;
— Implement the systems and processes that Product Developers use to deploy their software into production;
— Build an auto-remediation system to automatically resolve production incidents before escalating them to on-call Developers;
— You should be prepared for on-call shifts and potential “all-hands-on-deck” situations at any hour of the day or night. Minimizing those situations is part of your job!

Project description

Faria Education Group powers over 10,000 schools and districts and 3 million students with a suite of 6 services: ManageBac, AtlasNext, Pamoja, OpenApply, SchoolsBuddy, and Curriculum Trak. We develop on Ruby on Rails with excellent tools, full technical control, and with clear product demand.

DevOps Engineers are hybrid systems and software engineers who are responsible for and take ownership of reliability, automation, and other issues related to “keeping the lights on” across Faria’s multi-product SaaS systems stack.

DevOps Engineers are integrated within the Technical Operations team and work under the Head of Technical Operations and with the CTO and Principal Developers. We are looking for engineers who want to be a part of developing infrastructure software, maintaining it and scaling it.

About Faria Education Group

Faria was founded in 2006 to transition schools from paper to an online curriculum-focused learning platform. Today, Faria is a world leader in international education SaaS systems and services, powering curriculum for over 10,000 schools & districts and 3 million students with a suite of three services:

➔ ManageBac is online planning, assessment and reporting platform for international schools, supporting over 2,600 schools in 120 countries. By providing schools with one unified system on a consistent, modern and mobile-ready interface, ManageBac offers a seamless & integrated experience for coordinators, teachers, students and parents.

➔ OpenApply is a modern online admissions office supporting every stage of the applicant journey from enquiry to enrolment. Our cloud-based interface works seamlessly across devices for both families and staff, streamlining the process and reducing stress. Today OpenApply supports over 350 schools in over 70 countries.

➔ Atlas is the leading curriculum management platform. As the trusted choice for over 6,000 schools in 120 countries, we provide customized learning programs for innovative pre-K-12 curriculum leaders. With a team of expert educators, Atlas also offers professional development workshops and summits; from teacher professional development, such as curriculum design strategies, to sessions designed to support school leaders overseeing a change in schools.

We are a globally distributed team with offices in Portland, Chicago, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, UK, and Ukraine.

Mission: We are customer-focused, driving output and efficiency — onwards and upward.

Our Core Principles:
— We deliver efficiency.
— We don’t nickel and dime.
— The software should be affordable.
— Great service matters.
— Our schools are our investors.
— We are patient with long-term builders.

Faria Education Group is an equal opportunity employer, we’re united by our core principles, and we celebrate our unique differences. What kind of people works at our company? All kinds!

Company website:
https://www.fariaedu.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/faria-education-group/