Senior DevOps Engineer operating AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure for Modern Campus’s higher - education platform. Automating deployments, improving reliability, and supporting customer - facing products.
About the role
- DevOps Engineer responsible for infrastructure, CI/CD, and backend services for a major university platform. Join Robots and Pencils, building impactful digital solutions.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Node.js and Python Lambda functions powering REST APIs, data aggregation, and business logic
- Build and optimize Step Function workflows orchestrating multi-service operations
- Integrate with external enterprise APIs and internal microservices, handling authentication, rate limiting, and error propagation
- Implement deferred processing patterns using SQS for handling concurrent and long-running operations
- Own and evolve Terraform modules provisioning API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions, SQS, CloudFront, and ECR across multiple AWS accounts
- Manage multi-account AWS environments with proper IAM boundaries, secrets management (Vault), and S3 state backends
- Design and implement infrastructure changes that support zero-downtime deployments and safe rollback strategies
- Maintain and optimize Docker image builds and ECR lifecycle policies for containerized services
- Own Jenkins pipelines that build, test, and promote artifacts through staged environments with manual approval gates
- Improve build reliability, speed, and developer feedback loops across multiple repositories
- Implement and maintain pre-commit hooks, automated testing gates, and lint/type-check enforcement
- Coordinate production deployments following established release procedures
- Build monitoring, alerting, and logging infrastructure for a distributed serverless system
- Troubleshoot production issues spanning API Gateway, Lambda cold starts, Step Function timeouts, and DynamoDB throttling
- Establish and maintain SLOs for critical user-facing workflows
- Improve error handling and retry strategies across event-driven workflows
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS serverless services: Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, DynamoDB, SQS, CloudFront, ECR
- Strong proficiency writing and maintaining Terraform at scale
- Production experience with CI/CD pipeline design and operation (Jenkins preferred)
- Solid understanding of containerization (Docker) and image registry management (ECR)
- Experience with multi-environment promotion strategies and deployment safety patterns
Benefits
- Work on a production platform that directly impacts real users at scale
- Operate within a mature, multi-repo AWS serverless architecture with real complexity
- Collaborate with experienced engineers across backend, frontend, and infrastructure disciplines
- Grow within a globally recognized AWS partner ecosystem with access to cutting-edge cloud practices
- Influence DevOps culture, tooling, and reliability standards across the engineering organization
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