Fast Facts

Modern Campus is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to automate infrastructure on AWS, ensuring efficient and secure production environments for high education institutions. This remote-first role offers competitive salary and growth opportunities.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include automating infrastructure management tasks, interfacing with departments during project implementations, resolving infrastructure issues, and ensuring uptime compliance through monitoring.

Skills: Required skills include expert knowledge in Windows and Linux administration, core AWS services, experience with Terraform, Ansible, and familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include a university degree in Computer Science or related field, 5+ years in infrastructure management with 3+ years in DevOps automation, and database management experience.

Location: This role is remote-first, allowing candidates to work from anywhere in North America, with a headquarters in Toronto, ON.

Compensation: $80000 - $140000 / Annually

Who we are…

Modern Campus empowers 2,000+ higher education institutions to thrive when transformation is required to respond to lower student enrollments and revenue, rising costs, crushing student debt, and administrative complexity.

The Modern Campus learner-to-earner lifecycle platform power solutions for web content management, conversational text messaging, catalog and curriculum management, career pathways, student engagement and development, and non-traditional student management. The result: innovative institutions engage their modern learners for life, while providing modern administrators with the tool needed to streamline workflows and drive high efficiency.

Learn how Modern Campus is leading the modern learner-to-earner movement at moderncampus.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

What’s the role?

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer you will be primarily responsible for automating infrastructure configurations utilizing best practices for provisioning, monitoring and managing our client production environments on Amazon’s AWS platform

You are passionate about the adoption of DevOps products and processes and keeps yourself up-to-date with the latest AWS offerings. You have a strong technical and automation background and have experience with tools such as Terraform and Ansible. You will be working in an operationally focused capacity as well, with access to production systems, taking pride in the availability, efficiency and security of all systems. You are sharp and a quick thinker and are comfortable participating in the on-call rotation.  You will help drive and implement strategic choices in our evolving cloud infrastructure in support of Students and Higher Learning Institutions.

• Engineer and automate infrastructure and configuration management tasks – including (but not restricted to) application deployment, infrastructure creation, backup processes, disaster recovery, security hardening, application of security patches.
• Interface with other departments during project implementations and provide support for ongoing integration activities.
• Resolve and repair critical infrastructure and application issues as needed. Coordinate and communicate with impacted departments and customers.
• Ensure the uptime of our cloud infrastructure is in accordance with our SLA through monitoring and systems analysis
• Work in an agile environment where feature and projects are completed in defined sprints
• Participate in the on-call rotation

What you offer…

• University degree in Computer Science or related field with 5+ years of work experience in infrastructure management with 3+ years in DevOps automation 
• Expert in Windows and Linux administration. Extremely comfortable with command line (ie. Bash, Powershell) and use of tools to manage, provision, deploy and diagnose Linux and Windows systems.    
• Practical hands-on experience with core AWS services such as EC2, S3, Glacier, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudTrail, Route53 etc. 
• Practical experience working with relational databases (Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB) . Experience with SQL Server administration is a bonus. 
• Practical experience monitoring complex infrastructures, analyzing logs and troubleshooting application performance with tools such as CloudWatch, Zabbix, AppDynamics, DataDog, ELK. 
• Practical experience with development build environments and tools such as Jenkins, Ant, Maven, Git and Capistrano 
• Practical experience with Java (JRE/JVM), PHP, Ruby, Apache and Tomcat/TomEE. Experience with ColdFusion.
• Practical hands-on experience with implementation in languages and tools such as Bash, Python, Terraform and Ansible. 
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and AWS services like ECS, ECR, Fargate, RDS, Cognito, DMS, Kinesis, OpenSearch is a bonus 
• Demonstrate the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and aspire to be a project owner 
• Proven ability to meet deadlines, prioritize tasks and work effectively with minimal supervision in a team environment 
• Aptitude for constantly learning new technologies, highly desired. 
• Motivated, hardworking and flexible 

What we offer…

• The base salary range* for this full-time position is between $80,000 - $140,000
• Remote first workplace – and you are located in anywhere in North America our employees get things done!
• Rewards and recognition programs
• Learning and development opportunities
• You will make a difference every day for universities trying to grow and students trying to learn.

What we believe…

At Modern Campus, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace furthers relevance, resilience, and longevity. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply for our positions. Modern Campus is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to bring on hires regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status (for US candidates). If you require accommodations during any part of the interview process due to a disability, please let our recruiter know.

Please note that selected candidates for this role will be required to complete a background check which includes resume verification, criminal record and references check.

* Our salary ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hires for the position within the US and Canada. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.