College Board's Platform Operations team is looking to reimagine and elevate engineering practices by designing, building, and supporting the tools and platforms that developers rely on daily, aiming to make the developer experience seamless and impactful.
Requirements
- 5+ years of production level software development experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, immutable infrastructure, automation, modern DevOps patterns, SRE, and/or DevEx patterns
- Expertise in Cloud Computing, DevOps, and Microservices
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and AWS resources (Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, Step Functions, EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, DynamoDB)
- Strong coding/scripting experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, and Node.js
- Skilled in building event-driven serverless applications
- Backstage or IDP experience is a plus
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and a comfort learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively.
Responsibilities
- Build innovative solutions using Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps best practices
- Write clean, efficient code to automate the infrastructure lifecycle, develop internal tools using IaC, and effectively leverage CLIs
- Develop custom backstage plugins using React, Typescript and/or Node.js to enhance developer experiences
- Collaborate to define transformation patterns from a vertical application with service dependencies to a cloud capability
- Partner with domain SMEs (Delivery Team Software Engineers, Security, Infrastructure, Network, Observability and Operations) to analyze, design, and deliver powerful features and capabilities
- Implement and champion cloud-first architectural solutions along with best practices across teams
- Assist in diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving production and pre-production issues to ensure resilient systems
Other
- Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).
- Excellent communication, collaboration and mentoring skills
- Proven ability to develop and maintain customer relationships
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
