DevOps Engineer

Overview

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.
HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. HMH Technology India Pvt. Ltd. is our technology and innovation arm in India focused on developing novel products and solutions using cutting-edge technology to better serve our clients globally. HMH aims to help employees grow as people, and not just as professionals.

Technical Infrastructure:Here’s just some of what we use:
AWS EC2, Terraform Enterprise, Docker, Aurora, Mesos, Kubernetes, ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash & Kibana)
Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Telegraf, Runscope, Apollo, GraphQL
Microservices Architecture, Spring, Java & NodeJS, React, Koa, Express.js
Amazon RDS, Dynamo DB, Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, Influx DB, Linux, Jenkins. GitHub

About the role:
You will constantly be asking; what are the most important infrastructure problems we need to solve that will increase our applications and infrastructures reliability and performance.

You will apply your deep technical knowledge, taking a broad look at our technology infrastructure. You’ll help us identify common and systematic issues and validate these, prioritizing which to strategically address first.?You will partner with our SRE/DevOps team, discussing and refining your ideas and preparing proof of concepts. You will present and validate these across technology teams, figuring out the best solution and you will be given ownership to engineer and implement your solutions.

There are lots of interesting technology problems for you to solve so you will?constantly applying latest thinking. These include, implementing Canary, designing a new automated pipeline solution, extension of Kubernetes capabilities, implementation of machine learning to build load testing, ensuring mutability of containerization etc.

You will get to evaluate existing technologies and design the future state, without being afraid to challenge the status quo. And you will regularly review existing infrastructure, looking for opportunities to improve (E.g. Service improvement, cost reduction, security, performance).?You’ll also get to automate everything necessary, combining reliability with a pragmatic approach.

We’re continuing our journey of making our code and configuration deployments self-serve for our development teams.
You’ll help us build and maintain the right tooling
And you’ll have ownership to design and implement the infrastructure needed
You’ll also be involved in the daily management of our AWS infrastructure
This means working with our Agile development teams to troubleshoot server application and performance issues

Skills and Experience :
1 to 4 years hands-on SRE/DevOps experience in an Agile environment
Collaborate effectively with both engineers and operations, and be comfortable recommending best practices
Experience using AWS in a production environment
Expertise and skills to navigate the AWS ecosystem and the ability to recommend the most appropriate service, and/or usage pattern
Experience resolving outages and the ability to quickly diagnose issues and been instrumental in restoring normal service levels

Experience and/or an interest in the following;
Managing cloud?infrastructure as code
Application Container Management
Expertise with an?RDBMS
Experienced working with?Linux
Experience with management of?Messaging Queues?and?event driven systems
Having considered security, you have experience working with?firewalls, network and application load balancing?and?secret management
Experience working with?CI/CD tools
Experience using?scripting languages
A strong and informed point of view with respect to?monitoring tools?and how best to use them
HMH Technology Private Limited is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, colour, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation.