AddressCompany Overview
Veracross is a private-equity-backed leading Saas Edtech company that has grown 4x in size in 3 years and has consistent industry leading high retention rates. We serve front line educators with the only market disrupting open API single record architecture in the greater than $B EdTech market. To date we have configured and deployed our product at over 1,000 leading private K-12 schools in over 20 countries.
In 2023 Veracross acquired Digistorm, a Gold Coast based, mid-size ed-tech business, specialising in the education industry for K-12 schools across the world. Digistorm develops software, apps, and websites for schools and was the first to create a school app in Australia! We now have a very exciting opportunity for a DevOps Engineer to join our team.
About the role
This is an individual contributor role where you'll work on our DevOps team. You'll balance work between our main 3 products (Funnel, SchoolApp and Websites). On this team, you'll focus on building, maintaining, and improving infrastructure, tools, documentation, and processes. You'll tackle complex technical problems and work to enhance our security posture. You'll help other engineering teams as their workflows, tools, and applications interact with our existing and updated infrastructure.
This is an exciting time to join this team as we embark on a major effort to modernize our application stack, focus on availability, security and performance, and elevate our company by achieving our growth goals.
Responsibilities
- Designing, implementing, and managing infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies
- Developing and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery, ensuring fast and reliable releases
- Collaborating with software engineering teams to streamline the deployment and release processes.
- Set up and maintaining monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of applications and infrastructure
- Implementing and managing security best practices in the DevOps processes
- Operating within Agile best practices across several teams
Great to have skills
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
- Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes
- Experience being on-call with PagerDuty or similar systems
- Experience managing and troubleshooting RDS services (PostgreSQL and MySQL)
- Experience working within PCI or HIPAA environments, including Audits
- Experience Coordinating Vulnerability Remediation
- Experience with DataDog logging, events and monitoring configuration
