Senior Devops Engineer - SRE

Senior DevOps Engineer – SRE

Brno, Czech Republic

The Opportunity: 

Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. Our mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals.  

We believe in the power of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. As we expand globally, we are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of not only our hiring practices but who we are as a company. 

For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit www.anthology.com.

In this role, you will be a part of the Anthology Ally development team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer. This is a driven, creative, and energetic team that works in a flexible and agile fashion to deliver world-class products to the education market. By joining this team, you will become a core contributing member to Anthology’s EdTech Platform initiative. This future state platform will seamlessly and uniquely deliver a revolutionized learning experience through innovation, continuous delivery, and architectural integration.  

Specific responsibilities will include: 

• Working directly withing the development teams on the design, deployment, capacity needs, and operations of microservices and supporting them as they transition to production
• Mentoring fellow team members and helping guide the technical direction of the platform and tools
• Monitoring the availability, performance, and health of production systems in support of meeting service level objectives
• Using automation and tooling to continuously improve the reliability, scalability, and velocity of services deployed on AWS
• Participating in emergency incident response on-call rosters 
• Practicing blameless postmortems that lead to improvements in resiliency and reductions in pager fatigue

The Candidate:  

Required skills/qualifications: 

• Experience in the fields of Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related fields 
• Demonstrable scripting experience, preferably in Python, Typescript, or Ruby
• Expertise with analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale, multi-region deployments in a public cloud (e.g. AWS) 
• Experience with cloud deployment and management tools (e.g. Cloudformation and Ansible) 
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g. Cloudwatch, New Relic, PagerDuty)  
• Ability to solve complex problems, optimize code, and automate routine tasks 
• Self-driven and ability to lead objectives to completion
• Ability to coach junior team members 

Preferred skills/qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience with container technology (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker) 
• Experience with cost analysis and optimization techniques
• Experience with network and/or application security 

The Office:

We have an office in the beautiful and vibrant city of Brno. 

• Great office location in city center near Luzanky 
• Accessible by public transportation as well as bike, with bike stands and showers in the office 
• Cozy personal office spaces where you can shut your door to really focus or leave it open to interact with others 
• Great benefits including health & life insurance and English lessons 
• Countless places to eat within walking distance 

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.  

Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.