DevOps Cloud Engineer (Open LMS)

Job Overview

Open LMS is a Moodle-based Learning Management System that helps educators improve the learning experience and outcomes of millions of learners across the globe. In partnership with our community of educators, we continually innovate to better enable educators, parents, and learners of all types to teach, learn, connect, and communicate whenever they want and wherever they are.

Key Responsibilities

• Using automation and Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) to continuously improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of services deployed on AWS.


• Performance tuning and configuration of both Linux system and application parameters supporting highly concurrent web stacks.


• Manage infrastructure through code using configuration management and IaC templating software such as Terraform and Puppet.


• Documenting procedures and knowledge base articles throughout problem resolution and architecture development processes.


• Monitoring the availability, performance and health of production systems in support of meeting service level objectives using monitoring systems such as Icinga, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and Loki.


• Participating in emergency incident response on-call rosters.


• Practicing blameless postmortems that lead to improvements in resiliency and reductions in alert fatigue.

Required Qualifications

• In depth experience of AWS services (RDS, EC2, Autoscaling groups, S3, Deploying Lambda, Aurora PostgreSQL, WAF, NAT GW, ALB, etc.)


• Analytical problem-solving methodology with an outstanding ability to communicate and document effectively


• Minimum of three years in Linux system administration with experience automating system processes with a variety of scripting languages or equivalent skills


• Practical experience analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale, multi-region deployments in a public cloud (i.e. AWS)


• Practical experience with IaC, CI/CD, structured configuration such as JSON or YAML, and version control solutions (git)


• Experience in cloud deployment and management tools (e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible)


• Familiarity with one or more programming or scripting languages (Python/ PHP)


• Experience with LAMP stack: Linux, Apache, MariaDB/PostgreSQL/Aurora MySQL


• Experience in database administration along with a fundamental understanding of structured query language


• Knowledge of standard network/application protocols like HTTPS, SMTP, DNS, VPN


• A BS in Computer Science or a related field such as engineering or mathematics and 3+ years of work experience in Information Technology, or 5+ years of work experience in Information Technology overall


• Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience optimizing cloud infrastructure and reducing cloud hosting costs, ideally in AWS


• Experience using tools such as CloudHealth or AWS Cost Explorer.


• A BA in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience


• Demonstrable scripting experience, preferably in PHP


• Experience with network and/or Infrastructure security


• Prior experience within the education industry and/or with e-learning technologies


• Experience managing large scale backend Moodle installations


• Experience debugging PHP web applications in a live environment