Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Really Great Reading is dedicated to improving literacy scores nationwide through innovative products and training. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to manage the transition from AWS to Google Cloud Platform, ensuring operational stability and security during this critical phase.
Responsibilities
- Ensure the stability, performance, and security of our AWS production environment through end of life
- Monitor critical services, respond to incidents, and maintain high availability
- Optimize AWS costs thoughtfully during the transition period
- Handle day-to-day operations across GCP services — monitoring, security hardening, and observability
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines to support reliable, efficient deployments
- Manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) with a focus on best practices, reviews, and continuous improvement
- Support deployments and data migrations as needed
- Promote and model best practices in IaC, GitOps, observability, and security
- Document processes clearly and support teammates in understanding and using shared tools
- Contribute to a culture of operational rigor, async collaboration, and continuous learning
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering
- Strong expertise in AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, and related services)
- Significant hands-on experience with GCP (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, IAM, VPC, Cloud Logging)
- Proficiency with Terraform — modules, state management, and best practices
- Solid production experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and IAM
- Experience with at least one CI/CD platform (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or similar)
- Comfortable scripting in Bash, Python, or Go
- Excellent written communication and ability to thrive in a fully remote, async environment
- AWS and/or GCP certifications (Solutions Architect, Professional Cloud Architect)
- Experience in EdTech or education-focused organizations
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks relevant to education: FERPA, COPPA, or SOC 2
Company Overview