Staff DevOps Engineer

Join LearnUpon as a Staff DevOps Engineer, where you'll be a key technical leader shaping the DevOps architecture of our LMS. You'll drive best practices, technical innovation, and provide mentorship to elevate the skills of our engineering organization. Enjoy a supportive work environment with excellent career progression, structured learning, and flexible working arrangements.

• Drive DevOps best practices around CI/CD, automation, scalability and reliability across LearnUpon's infrastructure and pipelines.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to uplevel the entire engineering organization, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering teams and cross-functional partners to shape our long-term technical roadmap and strategy, identifying and solving complex technical challenges.
• Demonstrated success in leading technical initiatives that span multiple teams and services
• Track record of mentoring and elevating the skills of other engineers, including senior-level talent
• Deep focus on containerized environments, with experience supporting local development, CI/CD workflows, and deployment across the cloud
• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• 8+ years of exceptional DevOps/SRE experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership in large-scale, distributed systems
• Strong experience working with Kubernetes and Helm charts, as a foundation for modern infrastructure and platform orchestration
• Expertise in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred), and developing automation tooling (Bash, Python, Go)
• Proven expertise in cloud infrastructure, especially AWS, with a deep understanding of scalability, reliability, and security in production environments
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), with a focus on building modular, reusable infrastructure patterns
• Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box in order to apply, we’re always happy to review applications and take all experience into consideration. We do our best to provide feedback where we can!
• Experience leading engineering initiatives across multiple locations
• Experience with cost management for cloud infrastructure
• Contributions to open-source projects or thought leadership in the software engineering community
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows using tools like ArgoCD and FluxCD