Senior DevOps Engineer
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LocationRemote (United States); Remote (Canada)
Work moderemote
Typefull-time
SenioritySenior
Experience8+ yrs
DepartmentResearch & Development
Company size7+ people
First seenOct 16, 2026 · 3w ago
Verified live3d ago
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Eight or more years in infrastructure and five or more years in automation-focused roles, or equivalent demonstrated expertise
Strong hands-on production Kubernetes experience, including upgrades, networking, access controls, scaling, and troubleshooting
Strong AWS experience across networking, IAM, compute, storage, load balancing, and managed databases
Practical experience with Terraform, containers, Helm, and Git-based deployment workflows
Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or comparable tools
Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, including DNS, HTTP/TLS, and system performance
Strong practical networking and troubleshooting skills, including routing, firewalls, and secure connectivity such as site-to-site VPNs or SSH tunnels
Ability to write maintainable automation in Python, Go, PowerShell, or another suitable language, alongside shell scripting
Experience diagnosing application and database issues using metrics, logs, traces, and monitoring tools
Demonstrated ability to independently deliver complex work, make safe production changes, and communicate technical decisions across teams
Amazon EKS experience is strongly preferred
A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Technical leadership across teams, including architecture, standards, mentoring, and adoption of shared capabilities
Modernizing established applications and building self-service tooling
Experience with Argo CD or Ansible
Experience supporting technologies such as Windows, Java/JVM, web servers, relational databases, Kafka/MSK, or OpenSearch
Experience with Microsoft Azure or assessing and integrating unfamiliar infrastructure through acquisitions or migrations
Experience with Keycloak or similar identity platforms, including single sign-on integrations using SAML or OpenID Connect
AI-assisted engineering and operational automation with appropriate testing, review, and access controls
Skills
AWS
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
ECS/Fargate
Terraform
Ansible
Helm
Argo CD
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI/CD
Linux
Python
Go
PowerShell
Windows
Java
Kafka
MSK
OpenSearch
Azure
Keycloak
Position Summary
Modern Campus is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to build, operate, and improve the cloud infrastructure supporting our higher education products. Our environment is primarily AWS, with additional workloads in Microsoft Azure. You will bring strong production Kubernetes experience, infrastructure automation skills, and sound judgment when working with customer-facing systems.
You will own engineering work from design through production operation, partnering with Development and Information Security to modernize applications, improve reliability, and reduce manual work. You will also contribute to technical direction, mentor engineers, and participate in the on-call rotation. For candidates with demonstrated technical leadership across teams, we are open to discussing a broader scope and level.
What You’ll Do
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Design, build, and operate AWS infrastructure, including production workloads on Amazon EKS and ECS/Fargate.
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Own infrastructure projects through design, testing, deployment, rollback planning, documentation, and operational handoff.
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Develop infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and reusable platform capabilities using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Argo CD.
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Build and maintain deployment pipelines and automation, partnering with Development on application modernization, scaling, validation, production readiness, and rollback procedures.
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Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues across operating systems, networking, containers, application runtimes, and database dependencies.
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Improve monitoring, performance, and cost efficiency; implement security controls in partnership with Information Security; maintain platform upgrades and patching, and test backup restoration and disaster recovery procedures.
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Contribute to technical standards and design reviews, mentor engineers, and work with management to prioritize risks and improvements.
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Participate in the on-call rotation, lead incident diagnosis, and carry out planned maintenance. Communicate clearly during incidents and use follow-up work, automation, and runbooks to reduce recurring issues.
What You’ll Bring
Required Qualifications
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Substantial infrastructure and DevOps experience, typically eight or more years in infrastructure and five or more years in automation-focused roles, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
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Strong hands-on production Kubernetes experience, including upgrades, networking, access controls, scaling, and troubleshooting. Amazon EKS experience is strongly preferred.
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Strong AWS experience across networking, IAM, compute, storage, load balancing, and managed databases.
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Practical experience with Terraform, containers, Helm, and Git-based deployment workflows, including building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or comparable tools.
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Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, including DNS, HTTP/TLS, and system performance.
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Strong practical networking and troubleshooting skills, including routing, firewalls, and secure connectivity such as site-to-site VPNs or SSH tunnels.
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Ability to write maintainable automation in Python, Go, PowerShell, or another suitable language, alongside shell scripting.
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Experience diagnosing application and database issues using metrics, logs, traces, and monitoring tools.
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Demonstrated ability to independently deliver complex work, make safe production changes, and communicate technical decisions across teams.
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A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience in one or more of the following areas is helpful but not required.
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Technical leadership across teams, including architecture, standards, mentoring, and adoption of shared capabilities.
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Modernizing established applications and building self-service tooling.
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Experience with Argo CD or Ansible.
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Experience supporting technologies such as Windows, Java/JVM, web servers, relational databases, Kafka/MSK, or OpenSearch.
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Experience with Microsoft Azure or assessing and integrating unfamiliar infrastructure through acquisitions or migrations.
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Experience with Keycloak or similar identity platforms, including single sign-on integrations using SAML or OpenID Connect.
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AI-assisted engineering and operational automation with appropriate testing, review, and access controls.
Why Join Modern Campus?
At Modern Campus, we’re transforming how higher education institutions engage learners throughout the entire student lifecycle. We believe meaningful growth comes from understanding our customers, connecting their challenges to the right solutions, and creating experiences that deliver measurable value.
This role offers an opportunity to shape the future of demand generation at Modern Campus, building innovative, data-driven marketing strategies that strengthen customer engagement, accelerate growth, and connect marketing impact to business outcomes.
About the company
About Modern Campus
Modern Campus empowers institutions to move with confidence across the modern learner journey. Our platform spans web content management, curriculum and catalog management, student engagement and lifelong learning — giving more than 1,700 colleges and universities the infrastructure they need to support the entire learner-to-earner lifecycle and deliver personalized, scalable experiences.
We partner with the education community to create new pathways for learning and opportunity, reimagining how institutions serve the modern learner and shape the future of education.
Our purpose — our north star — is to empower institutions to confidently serve and support the modern learner.
This mission and purpose come to life through how we show up every day:
We exist to create empowerment through education.
We lead with honesty and empathy.
We shape the future through innovation.
We become trusted partners.
We make the complex feel possible.