Ignite Reading
DevOps Engineer
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $140K - $170K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ February 25th, 2025
CI/CD
Docker
ISO 27001
Edtech.com's Summary
Ignite Reading is hiring a DevOps Engineer. The role involves managing and automating the company's cloud infrastructure, deploying and monitoring applications, and ensuring high performance and availability of systems. The Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement DevOps processes and tools, report to the Lead DevOps Engineer, and participate in on-call rotations.
Highlights
Highlights
- Design and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS.
- Develop and automate CI/CD pipelines.
- Monitor system performance, scalability, and security issues.
- Collaborate with development teams for application optimization.
- Experience with Terraform, Docker, AWS ECS, and CI/CD tools.
- Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or Ruby.
- Salary: $140,000 - $170,000.
- 3+ years in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering required.
DevOps Engineer Full Description
Today, 67% of students and 82% of low-income students can’t read at grade level by the end of third grade. That’s when students are supposed to go from learning to read to reading to learn. It’s America’s number one education crisis and we know how to fix it.
Ignite Reading delivers one-to-one virtual tutoring that teaches every student the foundational skills they need to become a confident, fluent reader. We pair students who need extra support with expert reading tutors who provide daily, 15-minute, Science of Reading-based instruction that rapidly closes their decoding gaps. We focus on the foundational reading skills—phonics, phonemic awareness, and sight words—kids need to master so they can decode a sentence. Students in Ignite Reading’s program achieve over 2 weeks of reading skills growth per week of instruction, and notably all students achieve the same outstanding results including students with IEPs, multilingual learners, students of color and those receiving free or reduced-price lunch.
Ignite Reading is a mission-driven public benefit corporation. We believe we can do well for our team members and shareholders while we solve one of the nation’s biggest challenges. We believe we will be more successful with a diverse team and are seeking candidates who have lived experience related to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Our Mission: Ensure that every child learns to read by the end of first grade.
Your Role
Ignite uses technology to enable the delivery of our virtual tutoring services, maximize the learning of our students, and accelerate our ability to scale. To this end, our engineering team is focused on four key technology needs:
- A tutoring logistics platform, which enables us to schedule, conduct and report on our tutoring sessions.
- A tutor workflow platform, which lets tutors know exactly what to teach each student every day.
- An extended learning application, which enables students to practice what they learn in their tutoring sessions after they return to the classroom or go home at night.
- An AI/ML implementation, which will enable us to ensure lesson fidelity as we scale.
Reporting to the Lead DevOps Engineer, the DevOps Engineer will be responsible for managing and automating our cloud infrastructure, deploying and monitoring applications, and ensuring high availability and performance of our systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including development, operations, security, and product management, to design and implement DevOps processes and tools.
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated application deployment and testing.
- Monitor and troubleshoot system performance, scalability, and security issues.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure that applications are optimized for performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Implement and maintain system monitoring and alerting tools, such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Grafana.
- Ensure that systems are compliant with industry best practices and security standards, such as ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, or SOC 2.
- Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents in a timely and effective manner.
Competencies
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Strong experience with cloud infrastructure and automation tools, especially Terraform.
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline tools, such as Jenkins, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker or AWS ECS.
- Proficiency in scripting languages, such as Bash, Python, or Ruby.
- Knowledge of system monitoring and alerting tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
- Familiarity with security standards and compliance, such as ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, or SOC 2.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience at early stage startups is a plus
- Ability to be self-managing and flexible while working in a remote environment
- Ability to roll up your sleeves and do whatever it takes to get the job done while balancing long-term projects with the urgency of immediate demands in a fast-paced start-up environment.
Apply
- If you are passionate about DevOps and have the skills and experience we are looking for, we would love to hear from you. Please apply with your resume and a cover letter explaining why you are the right candidate for this role.
At Ignite Reading, we’ve decided to embrace a transparent compensation structure for a few reasons:
To promote fairness and equity: This approach supports fairness within our structure. When everyone knows how compensation decisions are made, it reduces the likelihood of pay discrimination based on factors like gender, race, relationships, or negotiation skills.
To provide accountability for our approach: The same role receives the same compensation, with no negotiation.
To build trust within the organization: When employees understand how their compensation is determined, they are more likely to trust organizational structures and decisions, which can lead to overall better culture.
To support legal considerations: Many states are moving to requiring compensation listed on job descriptions and we want to follow these rules.
Salary: $140,000 - $170,000 (This is a full-time, exempt role)
We believe in building and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where all applicants are considered for employment without attention to color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements. We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested!
We are seeking candidates who have lived experience related to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are a virtual organization with headquarters in the California Bay Area.
