Senior Cloud Operations Engineer II - Coach

Overview

PowerSchool is one of the fastest growing education technology companies, with more than 18 million users across the world. We are giving educators all the tools they need to more easily personalize education and improve student outcomes, but in a way that works easily with their current systems and teaching approach. We’ve evolved the traditional learning management system into an education cloud : a platform that connects the people, content, and systems that fuel education.

Working at PowerSchool offers you a chance to help solve the most important challenges in education in an environment that’s fun, collaborative and innovative. We are looking for smart, creative individuals who are passionate about education and aren't afraid to show it.

Responsibilities

What can you expect working at PowerSchool?

Given our explosive  2x user growth  each of the last few years, and our best-in-class retention, we’re looking to add to our  Cloud Operations team . Since we expect that growth to continue, you’ll help us first scale our existing infrastructure, improve automation, and extend our deployment capabilities.

Our plan is to move to a more supportable  PaaS infrastructure  where developers own their code as it goes out into production, and you’ll play a central part in making that happen.

You won’t do this on your own. As a Cloud Operations Lead Engineer, you’ll be working with a team of engineers with a diverse skill set to deliver software in a measurable, reliable way, as well as help build a resilient, monitor-able, scalable platform .

We like the  DevOps  philosophy here! Collaboration and a common goal align us to deliver a pleasant experience, both for our customers, as well as the development team we’re all a part of.

Qualifications

About you :

• 8+ Years experience working in managing & supporting production environments at scale
• 5+ Years experience working with AWS
• 3+ Years production Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Flux, etc)
• Experience writing Infrastructure as Code using technologies such as CloudFormation, Terraform, as well as Configuration Management tools such as Chef and Ansible
• Experience in making changes in HA environment utilizing zero downtime deployment strategies
• Development experience with Java, Node, Go, Python,or other modern language. Application development experience in serverless and containers is a plus.
• A solid grasp of web application architecture and underlying technologies
• Solid understanding of version control, branching models, software versioning.
• Solid understanding on how to test code and infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of databases.
• Understanding of AWS well-architected framework is a plus.
• Solid Understanding of modern agile methodologies (Scrum,Kanban)
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

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