Senior DevOps Engineer

Vista Higher Learning develops culturally authentic language learning products for K-12 schools and universities. The company is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to build and maintain reliable, secure, and scalable AWS infrastructure, automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability practices. The role also involves troubleshooting complex systems, leading incident response, and collaborating with engineering, security, and operations teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and improve scalable AWS infrastructure and automated DevOps solutions in partnership with senior engineers and the Director of DevOps
• Develop and maintain secure, reusable Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines that support reliable software delivery across applications and environments
• Troubleshoot complex build, test, deployment, and production issues; lead incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements
• Partner with SRE, engineering, security, and operations teams to strengthen monitoring, alerting, observability, security practices, and stakeholder communication
• Contribute to infrastructure strategy, evaluate new tools and technologies, mentor junior engineers, and promote continuous improvement and technical excellence

Requirements:

• You are a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer who enjoys building reliable, secure, and scalable systems
• You bring strong AWS experience, a practical approach to automation and observability, and the ownership to troubleshoot complex issues, reduce risk, and collaborate across engineering, security, and operations teams
• High school diploma or GED minimum along with relevant/required work experience
• 10+ years of experience in Engineering with 5+ years working in a DevOps role
• Leading system administration and enterprise networking efforts, including server provisioning, user and permission management, and troubleshooting hybrid environments
• Secure DNS, firewall configuration, and AWS load balancer technologies (e.g., ALB/NLB) to support scalable, high-availability systems
• Architecting and managing cloud infrastructure across staging and production environments, with a particular focus on AWS
• Deploying and operating core AWS services including EC2, S3, Route53, and RDS for modern web applications
• Design, implementation, and maintenance of robust CI/CD pipelines that support reliable, automated software delivery at scale
• Monitoring tools such as Datadog
• Linux systems administration and networking
• Integrating Git into CI workflows to ensure consistency and traceability throughout the development lifecycle
• Developing automation scripts and internal tools using Python, Bash, or Ruby to streamline DevOps processes, reduce operational overhead, and improve system consistency
• Using infrastructure provisioning tool Terraform to automate infrastructure management and configuration
• Leading incident response for critical systems, driving rapid resolution and detailed root cause analysis
• Position requires current residence within the United States of America and within the eastern time zone
• Associate or bachelor's degree with focus in Computer Science or similar very strongly preferred
• Experience working in the publishing, ed-tech, language learning or similar industry
• Experience with relational databases (such as PostgreSQL and MySQL), Chef, Packer and GitHub Actions are a plus