Senior DevOps Engineer

About Kami

Kami is a thriving organisation filled to the brim with talented, creative, and passionate people! It’s hard not to love what you do when our leading digital classroom platform offers meaningful solutions to over 70 million users worldwide, empowering students and supporting teachers!

You’ll be joining at a pretty magical time. Kami’s user base is growing by the day. With over 170 team members across the world, we couldn’t be prouder of the accomplishments and milestones we’ve achieved to date. Now, this is your chance to join our team and become an integral member of Kami’s growth, while shaping your own future (and having fun doing it)!

The Opportunity

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic and fast-growing team. As an engineer for this forward-thinking organisation, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of our applications.

This opportunity is based in our fully renovated Auckland office. We have a hybrid arrangement of Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in office. Tuesdays and Thursdays are work from home. 

What You'll Do

• Analyze and optimize system reliability, performance, and resource utilization of cloud infrastructure
• Develop and maintain automation scripts for deployment, monitoring, and maintenance tasks.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) to automate the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure components.
• Design and implement monitoring solutions to proactively identify and address issues.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents to ensure system stability and performance.
• Conduct capacity planning to anticipate future resource needs and optimize infrastructure scalability.
• Define and track reliability metrics to measure and improve system performance.
• Prepare and present reports on system reliability and performance.
• Work closely with software development teams to influence and improve the reliability and scalability of applications.
• Conduct post-incident reviews to identify root causes and implement preventive measures.
• Troubleshoot complex issues in a production environment.

What You’ll Bring

• 7+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE or similar role
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Relevant experience in software engineering, systems administration, or a related field.
• Proficiency in programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Ruby)
• Strong scripting skills for automation tasks (e.g. Bash, Python)
• Hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. Google Cloud, AWS) and container orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes), including adherence to best practices and resource optimisation
• A proficient understanding of core networking concepts (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g. Terraform) and/or configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring, logging and alerting tools (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty), and log analysis
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Ability to analyze complex systems and troubleshoot issues effectively

Why Kami?

We’re building a high performance, best in class team to help capitalize on our exciting momentum, and continue scaling Kami's magic and making a difference to schools, students, and teachers. With Kami, you’ll have

• A people-first employer that is on an inspiring mission to build the future of education while changing the lives of millions
• High calibre and diverse team ranging from successful startup veterans, to Fortune 500 and big tech professionals
• Continuous learning and development opportunities, including subsidised course fees, certifications, conferences, and free access to Udemy and more
• A strong mission; the satisfaction of knowing you’re not only helping modern day superheroes, aka teachers but also helping them shape the minds of future generations all across the globe
• Happy customers; helping thousands of schools worldwide through the digital transformation of education for the 21st century. Just read our reviews.
• Huge potential: Already used by 70M users in 175 countries. One of the most popular and fastest-growing EdTech platforms worldwide.

If you’re looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to impact the lives of millions, apply now!