Senior DevOps Engineer, Modern Campus

• Substantial infrastructure and DevOps experience, typically eight or more years in infrastructure and five or more years in automation-focused roles, or equivalent demonstrated expertise
• Strong hands-on production Kubernetes experience, including upgrades, networking, access controls, scaling, and troubleshooting. Amazon EKS experience is strongly preferred
• Strong AWS experience across networking, IAM, compute, storage, load balancing, and managed databases
• Practical experience with Terraform, containers, Helm, and Git-based deployment workflows, including building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or comparable tools
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, including DNS, HTTP/TLS, and system performance
• Strong practical networking and troubleshooting skills, including routing, firewalls, and secure connectivity such as site-to-site VPNs or SSH tunnels
• Ability to write maintainable automation in Python, Go, PowerShell, or another suitable language, alongside shell scripting
• Experience diagnosing application and database issues using metrics, logs, traces, and monitoring tools
• Demonstrated ability to independently deliver complex work, make safe production changes, and communicate technical decisions across teams
• A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Desirable

• Modern Campus is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to build, operate, and improve the cloud infrastructure supporting our higher education products
• Our environment is primarily AWS, with additional workloads in Microsoft Azure
• You will bring strong production Kubernetes experience, infrastructure automation skills, and sound judgment when working with customer-facing systems
• You will own engineering work from design through production operation, partnering with Development and Information Security to modernize applications, improve reliability, and reduce manual work
• You will also contribute to technical direction, mentor engineers, and participate in the on-call rotation
• For candidates with demonstrated technical leadership across teams, we are open to discussing a broader scope and level
• Design, build, and operate AWS infrastructure, including production workloads on Amazon EKS and ECS/Fargate
• Own infrastructure projects through design, testing, deployment, rollback planning, documentation, and operational handoff
• Develop infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and reusable platform capabilities using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Argo CD
• Build and maintain deployment pipelines and automation, partnering with Development on application modernization, scaling, validation, production readiness, and rollback procedures
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues across operating systems, networking, containers, application runtimes, and database dependencies
• Improve monitoring, performance, and cost efficiency; implement security controls in partnership with Information Security; maintain platform upgrades and patching, and test backup restoration and disaster recovery procedures
• Contribute to technical standards and design reviews, mentor engineers, and work with management to prioritize risks and improvements
• Participate in the on-call rotation, lead incident diagnosis, and carry out planned maintenance. Communicate clearly during incidents and use follow-up work, automation, and runbooks to reduce recurring issues