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Join Lexia Learning as a Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer, responsible for architecting automated deployments and maintaining high availability of web applications using cutting-edge technologies.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include architecting and maintaining infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, managing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring site reliability through monitoring and automation.

Skills: Required skills include proficiency in Terraform and AWS, strong experience with Ansible and Jenkins, as well as expertise in container technologies such as Docker and LXC.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include a BS in Computer Science or related field, with a minimum of 6 years in IT, focusing on web application support and Linux environments, along with experience in CI/CD and scripting languages.

Location: United States of America

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $110,000 - $160,000.

Job Overview:

A Lexia Learning Senior Dev Ops Engineer has a pivotal role in the definition, design, implementation, and monitoring of our CID and related technologies. This engineer will rely on a broad skill set and work closely with Development, Database and IT operations teams to architect automated deployments using an infrastructure as code methodology for all hosted application environments. This role will also be strategically focused on ensuring the high availability, configuration consistency, scheduled maintenance and consistent performance and site reliability of the production and non-production web applications, web application monitoring as well as all components of devops tool chains.

Job Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC), architect modular and reusable Ansible playbooks and roles as well as extend existing playbooks for web application deployment.
• Architect, implement, and maintain infrastructure using Terraform on AWS.
• Architect, implement, and maintain the configuration of CI/CD jobs and delivery pipelines using Groovy/Jenkins.
• Manage all infrastructure code through Git version control systems.
• Architect both private cloud (VMware, F5 LTM, Linux) and public cloud (AWS) infrastructure components.
• Build, maintain and scale infrastructure for Production and non-Production environments.
• Develop and maintain LXC and Docker containers for CI/CD and application deployment.
• Architect the monitoring of highly available production web applications and dependent systems as well as maintain existing HA systems with a high degree of automation.
• Assist in the strategic development and rapid enterprise integration of cyber security capabilities and tools to protect our networks, systems, and information.
• Coordinate with engineering, business, and technical subject matter specialists to identify and mitigate Information Security issues and incidents.
• Perform security monitoring. Follow up on alerts from Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and Security Information Event Management (SIEM) Systems.
• Troubleshooting problems of a complex nature autonomously.
• Perform support duties within a 24x7 on-call support rotation with flexibility to adjust hours for outages and perform after hours and weekend support as needed.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively at a high level with groups such as IT operations, DB Engineering, Application Development and Management in support of architecture change and application availability.
• Mentor less senior members of the System engineering team.

Job Requirements:

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years progressively responsible IT industry experience with web application hosting/development, deployment and production support and command line level experience in a Linux Based environment.
• 6+ years hands-on command line level experience in a CENTOS or similar Linux Based environment.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with any of these container architecture and orchestration technologies: DOCKER, SWARM, LXC, and LXD.
• 4+ years of experience Architecting complex ANSIBLE playbooks or equivalent IaC.
• 4+ years of Architecting JENKINS CI and CD pipeline deployments to multiple environments through the use of Groovy Seeds, Freestyle Jobs, Multi branch pipelines from multiple SCMs and artifact stores and multiple Jenkins instances.
• 4+ years hands-on cumulative experience in a development capacity using one or more of the following or similar languages: BASH SHELL, JAVA, GROOVY, PYTHON, RUBY, PHP, NODEJS, GO.
• 2+ years AWS cloud deployment and production support experience at scale with a variety of services
• 2+ years of experience with TERRAFORM/OPENTOFU.
• Deployment and monitoring of highly available web applications without outage.
• Ability to safely implement changes in production systems where you have minimal knowledge.
• Ability to perform in 24x7 on call rotation.

To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit https://www.lexialearning.com/

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