DevOps Engineer (offline) $1500-2500

Athena Analytics provide software, the “Athena Tracker”, to educational institutions. This software uses machine learning to identify a student's potential. The student's performance throughout school is then tracked against this for the purpose of highlighting when they dip below their own unique potential and may require some additional support. We recognise that each student's pathway through school is unique. Success is different for each student. Traditionally academic tracking is focused on both the high achievers and the students that require most support. Our software aims to ensure that every student gets this type of attention and no student gets missed in a busy school system.

Athena Analytics is based in Tralee, Co.Kerry but many of the team members are fully remote.

We are currently looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our growing team.

Day to day job:

Develop and provide support for core Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines for applications and services by starting with business needs and objectives, creating functional and technical specifications and executing against a plan to launch and maintain applications.

Review project objectives, security requirements and determine best technology for implementation. Implement best practice standards for development, build and deployment automation while mentoring and leading a team of engineers. Infrastructure that has been built needs to meet standards.
Review emerging technologies and evaluate potential uses. Develop prototype projects using new technologies.
Evaluate software applications and vendors. Recommend action, develop and lead implementation of selected applications/services.
Work with internal and external developers to ensure standards and best practices are performed for development of applications

The Essentials



3+ years DevOps experience
B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
AWS DevOps certification strongly preferred
Technical Knowledge/Skills in the following areas:
Experience with 2 or more scripting languages such as python, ruby or javascript.
Software development experience preferred.
Experience with source control, git or equivalent.
Experience in AWS at scale leveraging core services such RDS, and EC2, EKS, ECS, ElasticSearch.
Experience with Build and Deployment tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent
Experience with operational tools such as New Relic, or AWS CloudWatch
Experience with AWS networking.
A solid understanding of AWS cloud security
A solid understanding of CI/CD

Functional Knowledge / Skills in the following areas:

Overall knowledge of the education industry business preferred
Must be able communicate effectively and tactfully with all levels of personnel (in person, written, telephone).
Must be able to pay close attention to detail.
Must be able to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
Must be able to organize and schedule work effectively.
Must be able to work flexible hours, including overtime, if and when necessary.
Must be able to respond to after-hours pager notifications to provide support for applications as necessary.

About Athena Analytics

Through working on our academic tracking software, the Athena Tracker, we have built a model to help estimate what a student would most likely have gotten in the Leaving Certificate in a normal school year, based on their previous results. This model is based on the results of 130,000 previous students, and all of their previous results.

These estimated results can be used as an unbiased, evidence-based estimate for schools, based on well researched and tested statistical methods. It will incorporate patterns specific to subjects and levels and will recognise outliers in students' previous results - ensuring no student is penalised for one bad result. More information available here.

Our usual State Examination Reports can also be used in assisting schools with understanding past results of this set of students at Junior Certificate level and past recent results of the school at Leaving Certificate. More information available here.

Company website:
https://www.athena.ie/