DonorsChoose is hiring a
Cloud DevOps Engineer in United States

Summary

The job is for a DevOps Engineer at DonorsChoose, a mission-driven organization that helps US public schools by providing them with necessary resources. The role involves building and maintaining AWS infrastructure using Terraform, collaborating on security, troubleshooting production incidents, and more. The team operates like a fast-paced startup and the hiring salary range is $113,000 - $125,000.

Requirements

• Confidence in your own designs, as well as the ability to collaborate with other engineers on systemic issues
• At least 5 years of software engineering experience, ideally 2 of which are focused on building and maintaining infrastructure with IaC tools
• Proven experience as a Terraform cloud engineer
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerization
• Experience managing and securing services on the AWS cloud platform
• Experience writing reliable code in at least one language (e.g., Python, Bash)
• Experience doing the work associated with SREs, Platform Engineers, Cloud Engineers, or DevOps Engineers

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure with Terraform and other Infrastructure as Code tools—and enhance our ecosystem
• Collaborate with our senior engineers to maintain the security of our systems and processes
• Build prototypes, tackle problems with no clear solution, and collaborate with other engineers to make using our stack a better experience
• Diagnose and troubleshoot production incidents and then improve systems to prevent them from recurring
• Build CI/CD orchestration (for both the web application and infrastructure)
• Set up monitoring and alerts for infrastructure (e.g., CPU, memory spikes) and performance (e.g., page load speed), and help engineers with feature-level monitoring
• Develop ideas, proposals, and proof-of-concepts independently but also work with the software development team to build consensus on the best solutions
• Help educate engineers through code reviews, talks, and documentation

Benefits

• 25 paid vacation days per year and 11 paid holidays
• A rich employer-paid individual and family health plan
• A matching 401(k) plan (up to 5% of base salary)
• Annual professional development stipend
• Casual and flexible work environment