InStride is a public benefit company whose mission is to develop the workforce of the future by helping employers provide career-boosting education opportunities to their employees through a network of high-quality academic institutions. We believe the most enduring way for companies to achieve transformative business and social impact is by investing in their people.

Role Overview

In this role, you will report to the Director of Infrastructure and Operations and will lead the site reliability and DevOps teams. The ideal candidate would have experience building out infrastructure, best practices, tools and frameworks in the SRE, DevOps, Data, & Security space, have a proven track record building and growing multidisciplinary engineering teams, managing cloud hosted products (preferably in a SaaS environment serving large companies) and a passion for our mission.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of SRE/DevOps engineers to build out and sustain our CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure
• Be a technical subject matter expert in SRE, DevOps and Security
• Work closely with platform engineering, product, UX, project management, business development, customer success, growth marketing and executive teams to meet business needs
• Ensure best practices as well as implement tools and frameworks for SRE, DevOps, build and release, security, compliance, and cloud engineering
• Ensure on time, on budget and high quality deliverables that maximize business value
• Proactively communicate and manage stakeholder expectations

Ideal Profile

• 3+ years experience supporting large scale, global, high traffic and highly available consumer facing web applications and mobile apps
• 5+ years of systems engineering
• Comfortable leading multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Experience supporting SaaS solutions for large enterprise customers
• Enjoys leading, developing, and mentoring engineers towards reaching their potential while delivering high quality on time deliverables
• Experience integrating CI/CD (i.e. Jenkins, Gitlab CI), cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud), configuration management (Chef, Puppet), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and monitoring (NewRelic, AppDynamics) tools
• High affinity for automation
• Strong process orientation and attention to detail
• Excited by the challenge of building a world-class business that delivers not only high revenue growth and compelling ROI, but also has a meaningful impact on society
• Exposure to higher education institutions through direct experience and/or passion for the education space
• High EQ, comfort with ambiguity and a “no job too small” startup mentality
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science related field and/or work experience

InStride is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, ethnicity, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, medical condition, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please discuss your requested accommodation with our HRBP.