Sr. DevOps Engineer

About the role

Education Technology Services (ETS), a dynamic sub-division of Strategic Education Inc (SEI), is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support the Sophia Learning and Workforce Edge platforms. These flagship products provide accessible, affordable, and high-quality education solutions.

Responsibilities

• Arcitect, design, and implement scalable, cloud-native solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using serverless technologies (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions) and Kubernetes (GKE)
• Lead end-to-end delivery of infrastructure and platform solutions, including design, development, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement
• Own and evolve the organization’s CI/CD strategy, including build automation, testing gates, and production deployment workflows
• Build and optimize serverless architectures to improve scalability and reduce operational overhead and cost
• Establish and enforce best practices for scalability, availability, security, and performance across production systems
• Drive observability and monitoring strategies (logging, alerting, incident response)
• Lead production support and reliability efforts, including incident management, root cause analysis, and postmortems
• Mentor engineers on cloud architecture, DevOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code patterns
• Partner cross-functionally with product, security, and engineering teams to deliver business value quickly
• Manage complex initiatives in an agile environment, balancing technical debt with feature delivery
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies, rapidly prototyping solutions to inform technical direction
• Champion automation, process improvement, and tooling modernization across engineering

Requirements

• Cloud & Platform Engineering: 5+ years of DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience
• GCP: 3+ years of hands-on experience
• Kubernetes: 3+ years of experience
• Serverless Architectures: Strong experience
• Infrastructure as Code: Hands-on experience
• Docker: Familiarity with container registries
• Kubernetes Autoscaling: Familiarity with autoscaling tools
• CI/CD: Expert-level experience with CI/CD tools
• Automation & Development: Strong proficiency with Git
• Scripting & Automation: Experience building and consuming REST APIs
• Observability, Data & Security: Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools, databases, and distributed systems
• Security Scanning & Vulnerability Management: Familiarity with security scanning and vulnerability management tools

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with AI coding assistants and integrating them into engineering workflows
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines that incorporate automated analysis or decision-making alongside traditional processes
• Understanding of when to apply automation vs. human judgment, with appropriate safeguards
• Interest in evolving the SDLC through AI-driven practices such as prompt engineering and tool orchestration

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
• Must be able to travel 10% of time
• Must be able to lift 20 lbs
• Typical office setting
• Mobility within the office including movement from floor to floor
• Travel via plane, car, and metro may be required to perform this job
• Must be able to work more than 40 hours per week when business needs warrant
• Access information using a computer
• Effectively communicate, both up and down the management chain
• Effectively cope with stressful situations
• Strong mental acuity
• Regular, dependable attendance and punctuality are essential functions of this job

Benefits

SEI offers a comprehensive package of benefits to employees scheduled 30 hours or more per week. In addition to medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans, SEI employees may take advantage of well-being incentives, parental leave, paid time off, certain paid holidays, tax saving accounts (FSA, HSA), 401(k) retirement benefit, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, tuition assistance as well as entertainment and retail discounts.

Pay

$119,300.00 - $178,900.00 - Salary

Schedule

Typical office setting. Mobility within the office including movement from floor to floor. Travel via plane, car, and metro may be required to perform this job. Must be able to work more than 40 hours per week when business needs warrant.