DevOps Engineer

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K-12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students potential and extend teachers capabilities.

HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. HMH Technology India Pvt. Ltd. is our technology and innovation arm in India focused on developing novel products and solutions using cutting-edge technology to better serve our clients globally. HMH aims to help employees grow as people, and not just as professionals. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com

Technical Infrastructure:

• Here s just some of what we use:
• AWS EC2, Terraform Enterprise, Docker, Aurora, Mesos, Kubernetes, ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash Kibana)
• Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Telegraf, Runscope, Apollo, GraphQL
• Microservices Architecture, Spring, Java NodeJS, React, Koa, Express.js
• Amazon RDS, Dynamo DB, Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, Influx DB, Linux, Jenkins. GitHub

About the role:

You will constantly be asking; what are the most important infrastructure problems we need to solve that will increase our applications and infrastructures reliability and performance.

You will apply your deep technical knowledge, taking a broad look at our technology infrastructure. You ll help us identify common and systematic issues and validate these, prioritizing which to strategically address first. You will partner with our SRE/DevOps team, discussing and refining your ideas and preparing proof of concepts. You will present and validate these across technology teams, figuring out the best solution and you will be given ownership to engineer and implement your solutions.

There are lots of interesting technology problems for you to solve so you will constantly applying latest thinking. These include, implementing Canary, designing a new automated pipeline solution, extension of Kubernetes capabilities, implementation of machine learning to build load testing, ensuring mutability of containerization etc.

You will get to evaluate existing technologies and design the future state, without being afraid to challenge the status quo. And you will regularly review existing infrastructure, looking for opportunities to improve (E.g. Service improvement, cost reduction, security, performance). You ll also get to automate everything necessary, combining reliability with a pragmatic approach.

We re continuing our journey of making our code and configuration deployments self-serve for our development teams.

• You ll help us build and maintain the right tooling
• And you ll have ownership to design and implement the infrastructure needed
• You ll also be involved in the daily management of our AWS infrastructure
• This means working with our Agile development teams to troubleshoot server application and performance issues

Skills and Experience :

• 1 to 4 years hands-on SRE/DevOps experience in an Agile environment
• Collaborate effectively with both engineers and operations, and be comfortable recommending best practices
• Experience using AWS in a production environment
• Expertise and skills to navigate the AWS ecosystem and the ability to recommend the most appropriate service, and/or usage pattern
• Experience resolving outages and the ability to quickly diagnose issues and been instrumental in restoring normal service levels
  

Experience and/or an interest in the following;

• Managing cloud infrastructure as code
• Application Container Management
• Expertise with an RDBMS
• Experienced working with Linux
• Experience with management of Messaging Queues and event driven systems
• Having considered security, you have experience working with firewalls, network and application load balancing and secret management
• Experience working with CI/CD tools
• Experience using scripting languages
• A strong and informed point of view with respect to monitoring tools and how best to use them

HMH Technology Private Limited is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, colour, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. For more information, visit https://careers.hmhco.com/ . Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.