Senior DevOps Production Linux Engineer at LightSail Education

About the Job

• LightSail, www.lightsailed.com, is a leading adaptive literacy solution offering students a personalized and engaging reading experience while providing educators with the data necessary to drive deeper learning and help student achieve their potential. LightSail’s award-winning literacy software embeds assessments into a library of over 150,000 of the most sought after titles, delivering instant, actionable data while accelerating student growth. Only LightSail combines content from more than 400 publishers with instructional tools for educators embedded within every text.

Our office in Cape Town is hiring!

If you are looking for a regular DevOPS position for the same-old-same-old insurance or finance industry, don’t bother applying.

• If you are looking to work in an exciting environment, using cutting edge tools, building highly optimized and massively scalable using Docker, Kubernetes on Linux / PostgreSQL Production environments (both Azure and our own racks) across the globe, that allow our homegrown LightSail browser based applications to solve real world education problems that will help students around the globe including South Africa to learn to read and write then continue reading below.

Position: Senior Linux DevOps Engineer with solid Ansible experience
Core Functions / Responsibilities

• Oversee daily operations including systems monitoring and management across all production and non-production cloud infrastructure.
• Support Development Engineering team with infrastructure and automation best practices
• Design, implement, and maintain production systems, cloud infrastructure and automation tools
• Work closely with developers in resolving issues and improving CI/CD pipelines
• Drive new automation methods that enhance infrastructure operations
• Ensure adequate load and performance during peak traffic and off-hours
• Design and execute on net/subnet separation to ensure network security
• Consistently work to ensure maintainability, performance, and scaling

What Gets You the Job?

• 6+ years’ overall DevOps Linux experience
• Expert with container technology and subsequent technologies: Docker, Kubernetes 
• Expert experience creating, maintaining, and supporting automated build pipelines
• Expert in deploying, managing, and maintaining Bitbucket & Bamboo.
• Expert in writing and managing Ansible or Puppet
• Expertise in Load balancing using HAProxy and Firewall using Cisco
• Monitoring experience using New Relic
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or relevant experience
• In-depth knowledge of Linux, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch-7
• Advanced scripting experience using Ruby, Python, Bash