AWS DevOps Engineer
ABOUT EDUPHORIA!
We're a Texas-based company that loves making powerful and intuitive web-based software for K-12 educators so they can focus on spending more time with their students. Our software helps school districts analyze students' progress, plan lessons, and manage their day-to-day activities. We believe educators are heroes. Our purpose is to provide educators what they need to become superheroes. By bringing together assessment, curriculum, and professional growth for those closest to the student, educators can gain awareness, make thoughtful changes, and help students and educators thrive.
Our supportive, family-like environment extends to the educators we work with, allowing us to collaborate effectively. We believe in creating a culture where everyone is learning, teaching, and growing.
OUR TEAM
Over the past few years, our Infrastructure organization has grown steadily in scale and capability. As we continue to evolve, we remain deeply committed to delivering reliable, high-quality systems that enable our teams to build, ship, and support great products with confidence and speed
As our Infrastructure organization continues to grow, we’re hiring immediately for an AWS DevOps Engineer to help scale and strengthen the systems that empower our teams to make educators' lives easier. This role plays a strategically vital part in the evolution of our internal platforms—enabling faster delivery, greater reliability, and smarter resource management across the company. Reporting to the Director of Infrastructure and IT, the AWS DevOps Engineer will collaborate across engineering, product, and QA to build on a solid foundation while shaping the future of our tooling, automation, and operational excellence.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud environments using AWS services in a collaborative team setting.
- Help enforce best practices in version control, modularity, and environment segregation.
- Build and optimize continuous integration and delivery pipelines to support rapid, reliable deployments. Integrate automated testing, security scans, and rollback strategies.
- Ensure reliable communication between services, efficient load distribution, and fault-tolerant architecture.
- Maintain large data migrations and replication setup for MySQL databases which may include some SQL scripting.
- Familiarity with observability tools in order to diagnose performance bottlenecks and application issues in .NET environments, providing actionable insights and resolutions.
- Work closely with developers, QA, and product teams to align infrastructure with application needs. Maintain clear documentation for environments, workflows, and operational procedures.
Requested Skills/Experience:
- Adept at managing time & attention across priorities.
- Hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure in AWS, including EC2, RDS (Aurora), IAM, and CloudWatch Proficiency in Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code, with experience building modular, reusable components.
- Understanding of CI/CD principles, with practical experience in Azure DevOps and GitHub Workflows.
- Hands-on experience with relational databases (MySQL).
- Knowledge of resource optimization techniques, including rightsizing, autoscaling, and cost analysis.
- Familiarity with monitoring and troubleshooting tools, especially New Relic and AWS CloudWatch, in .NET application environments.
- Scripting and automation skills for Windows and Linux (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, AWS CLI).
- Excellent communication and documentation abilities, with a collaborative mindset and attention to detail.
Preferred Skills / Experience:
- Experience configuring service routing using ALB, Route 53, and service mesh technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Consul, AWS App Mesh).
- Able to build strong, healthy relationships cross-functionally with other teams (Engineering & QA).
- Experience with performance tuning, data integrity, and replication strategies with MySQL / RDS.
- Experience with Serverless Aurora & RDS.
Eduphoria! Offers You:
- Base Salary: $110,000 - $125,000 per year, plus 5% bonus opportunity
- Medical & Dental Insurance: The company covers 100% of premiums for employee and their dependents
- HSA - Employer contributes monthly to cover employee's individual deductible
- Unlimited flexible PTO
- 11 Holidays, as well as 2 weeks at the end of the year to rest and recharge
- 401k with employer match, pre-tax / Roth options
- Work Remotely with no pressure – (preference given to those who live in states that we currently operate in - FL, GA, IL, KA, MD, NC, OH, TN, TX, VA)
- Long-Term Disability
- $50,000 Life Insurance Policy for the employee
- Cell Phone/Internet Service Allowance
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Assortment of voluntary policies (Vision, MASA, Critical Illness, Accident, Supplemental Life Insurance, and more)
- Reimbursement for business-related expenses
- Professional Development Opportunities with leadership support
- Friendly, collaborative, and supportive small company environment with a technically progressive culture/focus
We Believe
- We believe in creating an environment where everyone can learn, teach, and thrive. We want everyone on the team to continually improve themselves and also help others to improve.
- We think developers should have all the hardware and tools they need to do their best work. We believe technology can be used to improve students' and teachers' lives.
- We want developers who are self-motivated, take pride in crafting their code, and love collaborating with other developers.
Why work at Eduphoria? Our Employees say…
“It really is like a family here. You can talk to everybody at all levels, and they are open and very caring. Everybody is willing to share and contribute, and if any of us go through personal issues, everybody has been supportive. Work/Life balance here is second to none. We also listen to what our customer needs are and do our best to make it happen.” -- John, Sr Engineer
“If you're willing to learn, everyone is always openly willing to give you access to knowledge. Whether it be resources, something that they have learned from their experiences in various companies/positions, or assisting you in finding the information that you seek. This allows me to grow my skill set to not only better serve myself professionally, but to better serve my teammates that require something from ME to do their job. I love that all it takes is asking a question, and you can learn so much here. ” — Ismael, QA Engineer
“Two things I love about working at Eduphoria:
Our mission - We've always cared most about empowering teachers and affecting students' success.
Our culture - I consider the people I work with my friends, not just coworkers. People come on board and stay. We find a balance between flexibility and getting stuff done.” — Jeremy, Sr Engineer
“[It’s an] exciting opportunity to make a difference in an unconventional tech space. In the front-end, we are using cutting-edge tools and process to deliver a great user and developer experience.” -- Victor, Staff Engineer
“My 2 favorite things about working here have been the ability to learn/grow/experiment (and the support to do that) and the people here. And I do really love what we do, too. It's rewarding being a part of something that can positively affect so many educators and students. It's cool that I'll randomly meet teachers or educators in my personal life and they'll have good things to say about our software and our people.” — Kevin, Software Engineer
Eduphoria! is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex or gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Please note, we can hire those who are eligible to work in the United States, but we are not able to sponsor visas.