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ACT is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to manage infrastructure and software deployment automation while collaborating with various teams to streamline continuous integration/delivery processes.

Responsibilities: The Lead DevOps Engineer will handle cloud implementations, establish deployment pipelines, analyze technical issues, and partner with stakeholders to ensure consistent solutions.

Skills: Candidates should have experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS), automation tools, Linux administration, and strong programming skills in languages like Python, Perl, or Ruby.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include cloud certifications, experience with managed services, and enterprise software development experience.

Location: Remote Position, US

Compensation: $140000 - $175000 / Annually

Overview

At ACT Your Work Makes a Difference

Education has power – a power that changes lives forever. It creates opportunities that lift up individuals, their families, and sparks societal change that echoes through generations to come. From our grassroots we have fought the good fight for inclusivity in education, and we remain devoted to helping anyone who struggles to access that power. This is what matters to us and we must do better -- we’ve never been more sure of our purpose.

ACT Education Corp. team members are part of an organization dedicated to an important mission: Helping people achieve education and workplace success. Advancing the mission internally, by helping team members achieve education and workplace success of their own, is core to our values. ACT values a diverse workplace and is committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which every team member has equal opportunity to grow.

We want our team members to have the well-being and confidence they need to do their best work, in an environment where both they and the company thrive. To support this, our total rewards include company paid life insurance, medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) with company contributions, paid holidays, paid time off, and so much more. You can find a comprehensive list of our benefits here.

The Lead DevOps Engineer is responsible for infrastructure and software deployment automation as well as architecting and implementing the underlying platform. This position brings high-level technical strength to review and choose solutions, implement technology that supports the cloud delivery needs of the organization, and functions as part of a team that works closely with Architecture, Engineering, Software Development, QA, and Security teams to achieve streamlined continuous integration/delivery objectives.

The finalist will be hired at the salary and level commensurate with their qualifications. We anticipate offering a market competitive annual salary in the range of $140,000 to $175,000. ACT manages salaries within the range based on relevant factors including, skills, experience, and internal equity. The position is incentive eligible.

Location: This is a remote position

A Day in the Life:

60% - Process and Solution Design, Leadership and Governance

Manage cloud implementations, upgrades, migrations, and change requests on client cloud environments with reuseable components
Create, implement, and assist in the development of scripts to automate everyday operations
Establishes deployment pipelines strategy and implementation
Creates reference architecture and steers implementation
Analyze and troubleshoot complex technical problems
Develop and maintain provising code for DevOps to support application environments including servers, containers, network, and monitoring

20% - Business Partnering, Relationship and Service Management

Influence stakeholders and leadership members to ensure solutions are implemented consistently
Provide cloud experience on the implementation of the technology
Participate in Problem Solving to address quality issues and concerns to meet the satisfaction of internal customer representatives

20% - Analysis & Requirements Gathering:

Provide strategic analysis of a tower technology; identifying linkages and opportunities across the enterprise
Proactively identify, assess and prioritize technology needs, clearly eliciting, translating, and documenting business, functional and non-functional requirements
Effectively facilitate discussions with stakeholders and leaders to define clear business requirements for complex, unclear, or large-scale business problems

Role Progression within the first three months:

Become familiar with ACT DevOps processes and the systems of repositories, bootstraps, Jenkins, Jira, Bitbucket and ansible that make up that ecosystem.
Develop and implement roadmaps for our current tools and any new bootstraps.
Become familiar with ACT Development processes and act as part of scrums as needed.

About You:

At least 7 years of progressively responsible software development and IT operations experience with responsibility for leading large scale change initiatives within an IT context and in a complex, multi-faceted environment
Experience with multiple continuous integration/delivery automation tools and current trends
Experience with infrastructure automation
Experience writing automation for at least one cloud-platform (AWS preferred)
Experience using software version control
Experience in managing cloud providers and solutions in a managed services environment
Experience with project management methodologies and SDLC processes as related to DevOps
Knowledge of Linux administration
Strong programming skills with at least one dynamically typed language such as Python, Perl, or Ruby.
Understanding of the Agile development methodology
Ability to develop and maintain relationships and work across the organization
Good decision making, problem solving and analytical skills, able to identify problems; apply structured and disciplined methodology to identify root cause using data
Results-oriented, highly autonomous, and demonstrated ability to take initiative
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Demonstrated ability to support, mentor, coach and advise team members
Ability to lead team through changes in a rapidly transforming organization

Preferred Qualifications:

Cloud certifications
Experience with multiple IT Infrastructure technologies and Managed Services providers
Contributor to an IT industry body or industry related major corporation advisory group
Enterprise software development experience

About ACT

When ACT was founded in 1959, it disrupted the assessment industry with a new approach to helping students better understand their readiness so they could take steps to improve it. By leveraging our expertise and authority in assessment and research, we will again disrupt the industry—helping more people learn, better measure their progress, and improve their navigation through life’s transitions.

More than ever before, ACT is fulfilling its mission of helping people achieve education and workplace success. We’re doing it by pushing the boundaries of learning innovation through the work of our people, who we call team members because we’re all in this together.

We know transformation does not come without challenge. That’s why ACT invests in a variety of experiences for team members to strengthen their connections, explore ideas, learn from customers, and celebrate success.

Learn more about working at ACT at act.org!

ACT is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. ACT participates in E-verify. ACT's online position announcements are intended only to provide general descriptions of employment opportunities; none of the information provided for any position should be interpreted as a commitment by ACT to specific terms and conditions for employment.

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