Job Description

Together we are powering the future of Higher Education
Here at Ellucian, we are motivated by a mission ~ the power of education to transform lives and change the world. We are the global market leader in EdTech for Higher Education, serving more than 2,700 customers and reaching over 26 million students in 50+ countries. We are dedicated to helping Higher Ed thrive by transforming their institutions to agile, digitally connected campuses that enable student success.

Together we are powering the future of Higher Education Here at Ellucian, we are motivated by a mission. Higher education is facing a profound change what with the shifting demographics and cultural perceptions, combined with declining support and rising expectations. This is forcing colleges and universities to do more with less and that is where we come in. As true believers in the power of education to transform lives, we are dedicated to helping all of our customers thrive—not just survive—by transforming their institutions from the traditional paper-based colleges of yesterday to the agile, connected campuses of today. Working with cloud solutions built on a world-class infrastructure to powerful analytics that drive successful planning, we lead the industry in building enterprise solutions tailored to institutions around the world.
Where you will make an impact We are seeking a high caliber DevOps engineer who will work with Ellucian’s DevOps team. This is an opportunity for the candidate to play a critical role in developing our cloud supply chain, cloud infrastructure, automation frameworks, monitoring and logging strategy. The ideal candidate is a high-performance engineer, a forward thinker and has substantial experience in DevOps, ideally at a SaaS company. We are looking for someone with a strong desire to deliver the best solutions by being innovative and contributing to our culture of a leading cloud software company. The candidate will be responsible for:

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  Coding CI/CD pipelines with a strong understanding of our product's architecture and cloud infrastructure aiming to accelerate delivery and drive down costs.
• Working closely with the Development and Cloud Operations teams to develop and maintain the Cloud Supply Chain frameworks, technologies, and feedback tools.
• Ensuring that each phase of the Cloud Supply Chain from development to QA, to staging and into production is fully automated, as frictionless as possible, utilizing CICD.
• Coding infrastructure changes utilizing Infrastructure as Code ensuring they are architected to implement 99.9% uptime and enable elastic scalability.
• Ensuring information security best practices and policies are implemented in your designs.

What you will bring A minimum of 2 years of experience as a software developer or operations engineer using languages such as Ruby, Python, Shell scripting, Powershell, and/or JAVA with at least 1 year setting up AWS environments for a SaaS company. Demonstrated Proficiency and knowledge of:

• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
• Expertise with cloud providers such as AWS or Azure
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins)
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Ruby, Python, Shell scripting, PowerShell, and/or JAVA)
• Expertise with network engineering concepts (e.g. Firewalls, Load Balancers, CDN's).
• Practical experience with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (preferably Terraform)
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Packer)
• Release Engineering tools such as Jenkins and Maven.
• Deep understanding of cloud technologies such as virtualization, storage and network domains in a cloud service model.
• Strong understanding of command-line tools and distributed version control systems such as GIT, GitFlow, SVN, TFS.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Passion for driving Continuous Improvement

What makes #Ellucianlife

• 22 days annual leave plus 11 public holidays
• Competitive gratuity policy
• Group insurance and Annual health check up plan with a variety of family and wellness benefits.
• Thrive Flex Program that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
• Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups such as: Buzzinga and Lean In Team to name a few.
• Parental leave
• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
• We Foster a learning culture with:
• Education Assistance Program

• Professional development opportunities

Additional Information: Req ID: 5222
Hiring Type: Full - Time
Level of Experience: Entry-Level
Remote: No
Travel Required: None