[Remote] Staff DevOps Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. StrongMind is a remote-first education and technology company focused on transforming learning through technology and student-centered experiences. The Staff DevOps Engineer will build and operate reliable, secure, and scalable AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure, improve observability and CI/CD delivery, strengthen DevSecOps practices, and support the migration of remaining Azure services to AWS.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure, including EKS clusters, networking, DNS, secrets management, and related cloud services
• Harden production environments by improving cluster reliability, autoscaling, ingress, load balancing, health checks, and security controls
• Maintain and expand Infrastructure-as-Code using Pulumi, ensuring infrastructure is versioned, repeatable, policy-checked, and increasingly self-service
• Build and standardize CI/CD and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and Kargo
• Improve deployment strategies, including progressive promotion, blue/green deployments, canary releases, and automated rollback
• Build and maintain Docker images and deployment workflows across Go, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, and C#/.NET applications
• Develop observability using OpenTelemetry and Datadog, including centralized logging, distributed tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and SLOs/SLIs
• Strengthen DevSecOps practices through automated dependency, container, secrets, static analysis, and Infrastructure-as-Code scanning
• Monitor and remediate cloud security findings while maintaining strong identity, encryption, network, and secrets-management practices
• Support incident response, post-incident learning, and improvements that increase uptime and reduce time to resolution
• Partner with engineering teams to improve service testability, deployment patterns, observability, and self-service infrastructure
• Support the migration of remaining Azure services to AWS, including containerization, routing, and database migration
• Write architecture decision records, runbooks, and documentation that establish clear standards for operating the platform
• Use automation and AI-enabled tools to improve workflows, solve problems, and increase efficiency while applying sound technical judgment

Skills

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or a closely related field
• Strong hands-on AWS experience, including EKS, RDS/Aurora, SQS/SNS, Lambda, EventBridge, IAM, VPC networking, S3, and ECR
• Production Kubernetes experience, including workload scheduling, resource management, and GitOps-based delivery
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience for managing multi-environment infrastructure; experience with Pulumi is preferred
• Experience with Kubernetes and GitOps tools such as Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, and similar deployment platforms
• Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions across multiple programming languages and application stacks
• Experience building and managing Docker images, including multi-stage builds, base image management, and runtime configuration
• Solid networking fundamentals, including VPC design, security groups, DNS, load balancing, Kubernetes ingress, and CDN configuration
• Working knowledge of cloud security, including IAM, SCPs, KMS, ACM, secrets management, and cloud security posture management
• Proven experience improving observability, reliability, uptime, and operational maturity in production environments
• Experience managing relational databases, particularly RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and backup strategies
• Comfort owning infrastructure work with autonomy and minimal hand-holding
• Strong problem-solving, communication, documentation, and collaboration skills
• We welcome all qualified candidates eligible to work in the United States. At this time, we are unable to sponsor visas
• Experience migrating workloads from Azure or another cloud platform to AWS
• Familiarity with Azure services such as App Service, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Service Bus, Event Grid, Key Vault, or Application Insights
• Experience with event-driven architectures using EventBridge, SQS/SNS, or Kinesis
• Experience operating an API gateway such as Kong and managing WAF/CDN protections
• Experience with FinOps, including cloud cost optimization, right-sizing, and reserved capacity
• Experience with DevSecOps tools such as Trivy, Dependabot, Snyk, or Checkov
• Experience with commercial security platforms such as Wiz, CrowdStrike, or Palo Alto Networks
• SOC 2 or other compliance program experience, or a security certification such as AWS Security Specialty or CISSP
• Experience with EdTech platforms or integration standards such as Canvas LMS, PowerSchool, Clever, LTI, or OneRoster
• Experience with data pipeline tooling such as Dagster or AWS Glue
• Experience mentoring or onboarding engineers onto a DevOps or Platform Engineering team

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and voluntary benefits
• An on-site gym
• Virtual wellness programs
• Wellness coaching
• Flexible work options for select roles
• Unlimited PTO for exempt roles
• Additional “life happens” days when you need flexibility
• A fully paid holiday week off at Christmas
• Recognition and rewards for birthdays, meaningful milestones, legendary work, and community service hours
• Quarterly Town Halls
• Annual social events and traditions, including Halloween celebrations and Wellness Fairs
• Remote work option for U.S. employees

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