DevOps Lead Engineer
About Us:
We are LearningMate - Energizing the Educational Landscape!Dedicated to transforming learning and development via cutting-edge technological solutions, LearningMate is a trailblazing one-stop shop for education technology. With a goal of improving educational experiences and empowering students, the firm has emerged as a leader in the field. Together with the recently acquired DoubleLine, LearningMate is a part of the Straive group and uses technology, digital media, large-scale data, and solutions to build strong, firm foundations in engineering and learning design. This helps to close the gap that exists between students, teachers, and content curators. The biggest publishers, universities, and government education departments worldwide use LearningMate's solutions to assist in developing, implementing, and streamlining their digital infrastructure. We are honored to be our clients' top choice for solutions thanks to our wide range of offerings, and we lead the charge to improve access to, affordability of, and effectiveness of future education, so enabling more students and learners. With more than 3500 employees, we are a powerful force in the US, the UK, South Africa, and India.
Learn more at www.learningmate.com.
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, and application deployment automation. The role will focus on building scalable, secure, and reliable cloud environments, improving deployment velocity, and driving DevOps best practices across engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure & Automation
- Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CLI.
- Manage AWS services including Kubernetes, EC2 (Windows/Linux), VPC, IAM, Load Balancers, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ECS, EKS, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, and KMS.
- Implement scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures.
CI/CD & Release Automation
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
- Develop automated build, deployment, and release workflows.
- Manage branching strategies, build automation, and deployment processes.
- Integrate automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing into pipelines.
Application Build & Deployment
- Manage build and deployment processes for:
- Microsoft .NET Framework / .NET Core applications using MSBuild.
- Angular + Node.js applications.
- Dockerized applications.
- Create deployment automation scripts using PowerShell, Shell, Python, or Groovy.
- Manage IIS, App Pools, Apache, and Nginx environments.
Containers & Orchestration
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred), ECS, and container-based deployments.
- Manage container lifecycle, scaling, networking, and production deployments.
- Implement deployment strategies such as rolling updates and blue-green deployments.
Monitoring, Reliability & Security
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as:
- CloudWatch
- Prometheus / Grafana
- ELK Stack
- Datadog / New Relic
- Perform incident management, troubleshooting, RCA, and reliability improvements.
- Implement DevSecOps practices including vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and security controls.
Collaboration & Agile Delivery
- Work closely with development, QA, security, and customer engineering teams.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies using Jira and Confluence.
- Support release planning, environment management, and production readiness activities.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10–15 years of experience in DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering roles.
- Strong AWS hands-on experience in designing and managing cloud infrastructure.
- Expert knowledge of:
- Terraform (primary)
- Kubernetes, Helm charts, manifest files, scaling policies
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS CLI automation
- Strong experience with:
- Jenkins / GitLab CI/CD
- Docker
- Kubernetes (AWS EKS preferred)
- ECS / Fargate
- Strong Linux/Windows administration and networking knowledge.
- Experience with:
- VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, Load Balancers
- IAM roles/policies
- Cloud security best practices
- Hands on strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, Python, or Groovy.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills with technical and customer-facing teams.
Preferred Skills / Good to Have
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional certification.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Experience with Ansible or other configuration management tools.
- Experience with:
- Zero-downtime deployments
- Blue-green deployments
- Rolling deployments
- Service mesh technologies
- Database knowledge:
- AWS RDS SQL Server/MySQL
- Aurora MySQL
- Redis / Memcached
- Knowledge of advanced networking:
- VPC Peering
- VPNs
- Firewalls
- Load balancing
- Experience with AI-assisted DevOps automation tools.
Technical Environment
Cloud: AWS
IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation
CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ECS
OS: Windows Server, Linux
Web Servers: IIS, Nginx, Apache
Scripting: PowerShell, Bash, Python, Groovy, Git CLI
Monitoring: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog
Agile Tools: Jira, Confluence
Additional Expectations
The candidate should be a strong team player leading a team with an ownership mindset, capable of independently managing AWS environments, automation frameworks, deployments, and collaborating with global engineering/customer teams.
