Senior Platform Engineer (US Pacific time zone)

Company Overview:

Learnosity is a forward-thinking technology company dedicated to innovation in the EdTech space. Our cutting-edge solutions empower assessment providers and learners to achieve their goals. We're committed to pushing the boundaries of technology to create impactful solutions that drive success for our clients.  Learnosity products support over 40 million active learners, delivering more than 17 billion test questions annually, with a total of 337 million test questions authored to date.

Position Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join our talented global team. The Senior Platform Engineer will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable, and secure platforms that underpin our core products and services. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with leading-edge technologies, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive innovation within the organization. This position requires the person to be based in the US Pacific time zone.

Requirements

Hard Requirements:

• At least 5+ years of experience working with large-scale systems.
• Extensive experience with AWS services including EC2, ALB/NLB, VPCs, IAM, RDS, ECS, Route53, and CloudFront.
• Proficiency in Python for scripting and automation tasks.
• Familiarity with configuration management/orchestration systems, ideally SaltStack, Jinja2, and YAML.
• Strong version control skills using Git.
• Advanced proficiency in POSIX shell scripting, including skills in using awk, sed, grep, etc.
• Development expertise in at least one programming language beyond scripting.
• Experience with metrics/monitoring systems, ideally Datadog and CloudWatch.
• Advanced Linux skills including iptables, systemd, logging, application management, diagnosis, sysctl tweaking, etc.
• Demonstrable experience working with or on legacy systems.
• Attention to detail and ability to read and contribute to documentation thoroughly.
• Curiosity to dig into code and setup without immediate need.
• Conscientiousness, strong documentation skills, and openness to feedback.
• Previous experience dealing with challenging situations and learning from them.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, ideally Kanban and SAFe, including grooming and prioritization.
• Experience leading projects, including planning, orchestration, migration, deployment, and delivery.

Nice to Have:

• PHP
• Golang
• Experience with GitHub including Actions and CoPilot
• Experience in an EdTech context.
• Understanding of TCP/IP and routing protocols
• Familiarity with JMESPath.

Benefits

The Salary & Benefits

Being part of the Learnosity/Questionmark team is a commitment to push yourself and those around you to do better, constantly adapt and learn new techniques, and be able to apply yourself to any challenge, whether you’re just starting out or a veteran of the industry. We encourage our colleagues to get involved in individual advancement and professional certification programs and will sponsor certification exams where appropriate. We are keen to try and maximize the value of your time and will design a schedule around your preferred working style, whether you need to accommodate a school or day care run, avoid busy commute periods, a gym or sports club schedule, we’ll do our best to accommodate you.

We offer excellent salary and benefits that include:

• Working from home
• Flexible working hours
• Healthcare coverage
• Company 401k plan
• Paid vacation and sick days

• Career support

The employee will be predominately working from their home office

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