Software Engineering Manager, DevOps

IXL Learning, a leading edtech company with products used by 14 million students worldwide, is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to manage a team of talented DevOps engineers and provide hands-on technical and project leadership.

This is a full time position with a hybrid work schedule of 3 days in the office/2 days WFH at our Raleigh, NC office.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Manage a high-performing team of DevOps engineers and help with recruitment for the team.
• Work with your team to master a variety of production technology stacks, ensuring appropriate knowledge coverage 
• Take responsibility for site performance, uptime and scalability 
• Develop and maintain accurate monitoring dashboards, alerting and runbook documentation
• Manage on-call rotations
• Partner with application engineering teams to understand product needs, support test environments, and manage CI/CD pipelines
• Propose architecture changes that will allow us to consolidate, simplify, and streamline our technology, company-wide
• Guide and mentor engineers to ensure a high level of work satisfaction, technical advancement, and progress towards individual career goals
• Make company initiatives, mission, goals, and values clear to each team member

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science or a related discipline
• 7+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or DevOps experience
• 2+ years of experience leading a software engineering or DevOps team
• 2+ years of experience managing and troubleshooting online multi-user SaaS systems
• Fluency in DevOps concerns such as source control, builds, deployments, networking, scaling, and monitoring
• Flexibility to work with a variety of technologies and legacy systems, balanced against a passion to streamline and modernize
• Skill at troubleshooting problems across the stack, providing both immediate fixes as well as long term solutions
• Experience running services in cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
• Experience with common service technologies like web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databases
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
• Flexibility about work hours and being on call
• Strong communication, leadership, and time management skills

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At IXL, we value diversity in age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, political and religious beliefs, and life experience, and we are proud to promote a work environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work. IXL Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer.