DevOps Engineers at edX help develop and maintain the infrastructure in AWS for all services and systems required to run the edX website. We're seeking engineers with strong systems administration backgrounds and programming skills. The DevOps team primarily focuses on the provisioning, configuration, deployment, and monitoring of services at edX. If you have a passion for automation, configuration as code, metric-based decision making and constant improvement then we want to hear from you.

The edX production environment is hosted in AWS on servers running Ubuntu Linux. We are actively working on extending our use of containerization, specifically via Docker.

Our team of 5 participates in on-call and emergency support and there will be occasional out of normal hours work required.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Help to design and deploy high-availability systems
• Work with developers and staff to maintain and improve the infrastructure of edX
• Rapidly diagnose and resolve faults with services, and communicate to users as appropriate.
• Help the open-edX community who are standing up the edX platform and make contributions to our open-source code.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science (or equivalent experience) and 3 or more years of systems administration.
• Must have an excellent working knowledge of Linux both as an end-user and as an administrator.
• Must be adept in programming/scripting languages. We prefer Python experience, extra credit for strong polyglot skills.
• Must be familiar with a configuration management system such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef.
• Must have experience running web applications in a production environment.
• Must have excellent personal interaction skills as the position requires interfacing with a wide range of people up to board level.
• Ideally possesses experience with some of the following technologies: nginx, mysql, mongodb, django environments, splunk, git.
• Innate drive to continuously improve and learn. Willingness to tackle a wide-range of projects. Interest in understanding and becoming expert in new technologies.

Applicants must be able to work out of our Cambridge, MA office. Sorry, Visa sponsorship is not available.