Job Description
The American middle class is in crisis. The workforce is rapidly changing with old jobs disappearing and new jobs requiring new skills taking their place. Millions of people soon to enter the workforce or early in their careers are unclear about the prospects for jobs today and uncertain of what steps to take to land roles in the jobs and careers of tomorrow. What’s worse, many people early in their careers feel stuck in roles unaligned to their goals. They need more information, guidance, access to coursework and certifications, and ways to showcase their talent to potential employers who can help them build a better life. That’s where Tallo, a Stride company, comes in. That's where you come in.
Tallo is passionate about helping early talent explore and match high-quality jobs and complete the training they need to succeed. We focus on talent with skill or credential gaps because they offer the greatest untapped opportunity to employers and our society. Today, we engage with more than 1.6 million young people, state agencies, and dozens of organizations to make matches that change lives. We're committed to serving many more people in the next few years as we grow. The marketplace doesn't lack opportunity, and it doesn't lack talent. It lacks a way to connect the two. Come join us.
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with expertise in front-end and back-end web application architecture and design patterns to join the Tallo development team. The ideal candidate has an agile mindset, is team oriented, passionate about technology and thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. A quick learner that can hit the ground running.
You will be part of an empowered agile team with the opportunity to innovate and build solutions alongside product managers, designers, architects, and technical leads.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform their essential duties.
- Work closely with the rest of the engineering team members to design and implement large-scale service-oriented applications; champion iterative development processes and use prototyping methods to collaborate and solicit feedback where appropriate.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements.
- Help drive future technology direction and framework selection across different products that are scalable, secure, and efficient.
- Responsible for Designing and maintaining a secure AWS Enterprise DevOps and SecDevOps tools based on industry standards, best practices and guidelines
- Determine technical standards and specifications and lead the architecture, design, build and support of DevOps components and shared services cloud platform components
- Providing professional support services and/or the integration of their respective products
- Provide High level architecture, Design and oversee Implementation the DevOps tools based on best Practices
- Compare various solutions and determine the one which best fits the need
- Review the current architectural landscape and make appropriate recommendations
- Build infrastructure to support CICD pipeline for micro-service environments across multiple environments.
- Conduct code reviews and enhance software development best practices within the team.
- Ensure software meets all non-functional specifications, performance, and security requirements.
- Be proactive in analyzing logs, debugging applications, implementing immediate and long-term improvements in a timely manner; create appropriate documentation and/or run books where appropriate.
- Work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Utilize problem-solving and communication skills.
- Stay updated on emerging trends and technologies in full stack development.
- Mentor junior members of the engineering team.
- Assume responsibility for other similar professional duties as assigned based on project needs.
Supervisory Responsibilities: The position has no supervisory responsibilities.
MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Strong history of working in cloud-based, microservice environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or related field AND
- 5 years of experience with design and implementation of systems and applications at Amazon Web Services (AWS) OR
- Equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience working in AWS via the CLI and management console
- Knowledge and experience architecting and configuring Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)
- Experience working with administrator and service accounts and troubleshoot Creates/updates and Maintains system documentation, interacts with users and evaluates vendor products
- Operations for firewalls, routers and switches and the ability to formulate access control lists (ACLs) via the Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Five (5) years of software development experience.
- Proven track record of enterprise architecture experience with large volume, high availability enterprise applications.
- Strong understanding of modern front-end frameworks, specifically React.
- Strong core Java and knowledge of enterprise technologies.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming best practices and design principles.
OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Five (5) years of broad knowledge of Java and/or PHP.
- Three (3) years’ experience with Spring Framework or Laravel.
- Three (3) years of experience with Relational DBs like Postgres and writing SQL queries.
- Four (4) years of experience with AWS (API Gateway, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Lambda, Code Pipeline).
- Two (2) years of experience working in agile scrum team settings.
- Adept at solving complicated technical problems.
- Experience with microservice architectures.
- Experience in Java application performance profiling and analysis.
- Able to triage issues within the code and/or data.
- Experience in cross browser support issues and solutions.
- Experience in responsive web design.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to travel 5% of the time.
- Ability to clear required background check.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with the following: Python, Spring Boot, Redis, Elastic Search, Progressive Web Apps (PWA), and Open Search
- Experience with accessibility and 508 compliances.
- Experience working with Jira and similar software project management tools.
- Experience developing Software as a Service (SaaS).
- Familiar with open-source technologies and frameworks.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with mobile application development and React Native
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
· This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.
Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.
- We anticipate the salary range to be $66,379.50- $170,037.60. The upper end of this range is not likely to be offered, as an individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.
The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.
Job Type
Regular
The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.
Stride, Inc. is a Federal Contractor, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
