Senior CloudOps Database Engineer, Learnosity
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3+ days a week in office
Learning assessment API
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Learning assessment API
201-500 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To advance education and learning worldwide with best-in-class technology.
Role
Who you are
- A proven track record of 5+ years managing large-scale production systems
- At least 3+ years of experience developing solutions and improvements for large-scale systems
- Experience working in a global, distributed team environment
- Platform Engineering
- Strong proficiency in Python for scripting and automation tasks
- Highly experienced with Docker and containerised applications and systems
- Proficiency in POSIX shell scripting, including skills in using awk, sed, grep, etc
- Strong version control skills using Git
- Experienced using GitHub Actions and Workflows
- Cloud Operations
- Advanced Linux skills including iptables, systemd, logging, application management, diagnosis, sysctl tweaking, etc
- Strong experience with AWS services including EC2, ALB/NLB, VPCs, IAM, RDS, ECS, Route53, and CloudFront
- Experience maintaining large-scale legacy systems and performing migrations
- Experience with large-scale databases and database administration, ideally MariaDB & PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS
- Experienced with metrics/monitoring systems, ideally Datadog and CloudWatch
Desirable
- Strong networking background, including understanding of TCP/IP and routing protocols
- Experience in optimising database performance and resolving performance issues
What the job involves
- Join our global team and play a pivotal role in building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers our innovative AI-first assessment solutions
- This is more than just a job; it's an opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven company that's making a real difference in education
- This hybrid role combines building and developing solutions to improve the platform plus supporting and maintaining the live system
- Build, Maintain and improve a modern, highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS to support our next generated of AI-powered products
- Use AI tools to empower your productivity and make you more successful
- Optimize system performance, troubleshoot complex issues, and implement proactive monitoring solutions
- Automate infrastructure deployments and operational tasks to improve efficiency and reliability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of our products
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of our infrastructure and operational processes
Our take
The education technology industry is worth around a quarter of a trillion dollars and is only set to grow as radical new technologies like AI accelerate digitalisation. Increasingly, education providers are becoming aware of the cost savings, improved education outcomes and rapid scalability of online learning, and a plethora of startups have sprung into existence to provide technological solutions to make this a possibility.
Learnosity, founded in the late 00s, aims to take part in this shift by providing assessment APIs for educational product developers. This allows products to be shipped within weeks rather than months or years and avoids the significant expense and expertise requirements of building assessment and reporting systems from the ground up.
Learnosity's customers include the likes of Pearson, Cambridge University Press and PowerSchool, and it has over 40 million learners using its products. With its 2025 buyout by Leeds Equity Partners and a 9.5 million euros funding raise in 2026, the company will be able to further scale its software and reach a new stage of growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2018
$18.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $18.8m
Company benefits
- Working from home
- Flexible working hours
- Generous healthcare coverage
- Company 401k plan
- Paid vacation, personal and sick days
- Career support
- Subsidized gym membership, internet and cell phone plans
Company HQ
Dublin, Ireland
Leadership
Gavin Cooney
(Co-Founder & CEO)Background in web development.
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