Senior DevOps Engineer, Student.com
AWS
Marketplace for international student housing
Be an early applicant
Marketplace for international student housing
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
Student.com is committed to helping students find their perfect home abroad.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team
- This role requires a deep understanding of Dev Ops practices, cloud environments, and a passion for continuous improvement
- Extensive experience in a DevOps or similar role, with a proven track record of managing complex systems and infrastructures including mobile and web customer experiences
- Technologies: Proficiency with CI/CD tools (CircleCI, Jenkins, GitLab CI), IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation), and cloud platforms (AWS, Snowflake, GCP, Azure)
- Frameworks & Tools: nginx, RabbitMQ, GraphQL, Redis
- Scripting and Automation: Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, etc.) and experience with automation frameworks
- CDN: fast.ly and Alibaba Cloud
- Monitoring Tools: Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) to ensure system health and performance
- Version Control: Proficiency with version control systems (Git)
- Containerisation: Experience with containerisation technologies (Kubernetes / Docker) and orchestration
- Security: Knowledge of security best practices and tools for securing cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines
- AI: Any exposure to AIOps and MLOps a huge plus!
- Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure during incident resolution
- Communication: Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a remote, distributed team environment
- Certifications: Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Professional DevOps Engineer, or similar
- Agile Methodologies: Experience working in Agile/Scrum/Kanban environments
- Database Management: Knowledge of database management systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB) and data migration strategies
What the job involves
- The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing the deployment and operations of our software systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance
- You will work closely with our development and IT teams to streamline processes, implement automation, and optimise our cloud infrastructure
- Aspire to DORA metrics
- AUTOMATE, AUTOMATE, AUTOMATE!
- Improve platform performance and stability
- CI/CD Implementation: Design, implement, and manage Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools like CircleCI, Jenkins, GitLab CI and RunDeck to ensure fast, reliable, and secure software releases
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop and maintain infrastructure using IaC tools such as AWS CDK, Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation to automate provisioning and management of resources
- Cloud Architecture: An understanding of cloud architecture best practice helping to drive improvements and cost reduction using tools such as the AWS Well Architected Framework
- Cloud Management: Oversee and optimize our cloud infrastructure (AWS), ensuring high availability, performance, and cost-effectiveness specifically serving an international customer base
- Monitoring and Logging: Implement and maintain robust monitoring and logging solutions (ELK stack) to ensure the health and performance of our systems and services
- Automation: Identify opportunities for automation of routine tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention
- Security: Ensure the security of our infrastructure and applications by implementing best practices and working with our security team to perform regular audits and vulnerability assessments. Understanding of and experience moving to a DevSecOps ethos
- Collaboration: Work closely with the wider Technology and Product teams to ensure smooth integration and deployment of new features and updates
- Line Management: Ideally has recently line managed a team
- Incident Management: Lead incident response efforts, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and preventive measures to minimise downtime and impact on users
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The number of international students at UK universities alone continues to rise, making a platform which provides easy access to the international student housing market invaluable, and giving Student.com a growing market to expand into.
Before Student.com, it was difficult for landlords to exercise global reach and harness the large numbers of students coming to universities from abroad. Student.com has provided this access, giving landlords worldwide the opportunity to cash in on a lucrative market.
Student.com has seen rapid growth since being founded. Now, it is betting on expanding into new territories like the US, having secured successful rounds of funding from leading investors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2019
$10m
LATE VC
Feb 2016
$60m
LATE VC
Total funding: $70m
Company benefits
- Starting kit Every new team member gets a laptop and some gear to help you kickstart the journey!
- Social events: What happens at the party stays at the party. We have social events planned all year round!
- Daily Snacks: Hungry at three in the afternoon? Don’t worry! Our kitchen is always stocked with healthy breakfast and snacks
Company values
- Excellence
- Total peace of mind
- Integrity
- Passion
- Positive Attitude
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Luke Nolan
(CEO)Studied Banking and International Finance at Cass Business School, then built a range of experience in banking, investment and entrepreneurship
People progressing
Joined as Offline Marketing Manager, promoted to Senior Chinese Marketing Manager after 2 years, 6 months; promoted again to Head of UK Chinese Student Marketing after 1 year, 7 months
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