Key skills
TypeScriptPythonRubySQL.NETNode.jsRuby on RailsRailsAWSAzureTerraformDockerGitHub ActionsPulumiECSFargateLambdaS3DynamoDBRDSIAMCloudWatchSNSSQSGlueAPI GatewayKinesisAzure SQLCosmos DBApp ServiceService BusGitHubLoad BalancingCI/CDResource Planning
About this role
StrongMind is a remote-first education and technology company on a mission to transform learning for students, families, and educators across the country. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for improving platform reliability, scalability, and engineering velocity by managing AWS infrastructure, optimizing CI/CD processes, and supporting cloud migration efforts.
Responsibilities:
- Own and improve AWS infrastructure, including ECS clusters, networking, and service reliability
- Build and enhance observability through logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboards
- Develop and standardize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions across multiple codebases
- Support migration efforts from Azure to AWS, including containerization and database transitions
- Optimize Docker images and container standards for Ruby on Rails and .NET applications
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment strategies and developer experience
- Create documentation such as runbooks and architecture decision records (ADRs)
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering
- Deep, hands-on experience with AWS services including ECS Fargate, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC networking, and S3
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Pulumi preferred, or similar tools like Terraform)
- Experience building and maintaining Docker containers for Ruby on Rails and/or .NET applications
- CI/CD expertise using GitHub Actions across polyglot environments (Ruby, .NET, Python, Node.js/TypeScript)
- Proven ability to improve observability, uptime, and operational maturity in production systems
- Experience managing relational databases, including performance tuning and backup strategies
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, load balancing, and secure architecture
- Ability to operate independently with high ownership in a remote environment
- Experience migrating workloads from Azure to AWS
- Familiarity with Azure services such as App Service, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, or Service Bus
- Experience with event-driven architectures (EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Kinesis)
- Exposure to EdTech platforms or integration standards (e.g., LTI, OneRoster)
- Experience with data pipeline tools (e.g., AWS Glue, Step Functions)
- FinOps experience, including cost optimization and resource planning
- Experience building or leading a DevOps or Platform Engineering team