Senior DevOps Engineer

The Senior DevOps Engineer designs, automates, and supports secure, reliable, cloud-native delivery platforms across AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and GitOps. This role partners with development, QA, security, infrastructure, and Scrum teams to improve delivery speed, platform resiliency, operational visibility, technology currency, and cloud cost management. The position also applies AI-assisted engineering tools, such as Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot or similar platforms, accelerate automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and delivery while maintaining quality, security and review standards., Design, build, and maintain secure cloud-native delivery platforms using AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and GitOps practices. * Own and continuously improve DevOps platform standards, reusable delivery patterns, secure pipeline practices, and governance guardrails. * Develop reusable automation, deployment patterns, scripts, and platform capabilities that improve reliability, scalability, compliance, and developer productivity. * Lead technical problem solving, troubleshooting, code reviews, and engineering standards for complex delivery and infrastructure issues. * Support cloud implementations, upgrades, migrations, and change requests with reusable, well-governed components. * Maintain awareness of cloud, DevOps, AI-assisted engineering, and platform technology trends to keep ACT solutions current and effective.

20% - Business Partnering, Relationship and Service Management * Partner with Scrum teams, application teams, security, infrastructure, and leadership to align platform work with delivery priorities, operational needs, technology currency, and cloud cost objectives. * Work with Scrum teams to identify platform currency needs, inefficient cloud usage, right-sizing opportunities, and cost-conscious design choices. * Own and keep stakeholders informed of solution progress, risks, decisions, implementation timelines, and opportunities to improve delivery or reduce operational cost.

20% - Analysis & Requirements Gathering * Identify solution gaps, managed service provider issues, technology risks, and opportunities for standardization, automation, cost optimization, or improved resiliency. * Elicit and translate business, functional, and non-functional requirements into clear technical plans and recommendations. * Role Progression within the first three months: * Assess ACT DevOps processes and the repository, bootstrap, Jenkins, Jira, Bitbucket, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, AWS, and EKS ecosystem to identify gaps and improvement opportunities. * Develop initial tool and platform roadmaps, including recommendations for technology currency, automation opportunities, and cost-aware improvements. * Build relationships with Scrum teams and stakeholders, becoming a trusted DevOps SME who helps shape delivery practices, platform standards, and operating priorities.

Role Progression within the first three months: * Assess ACT DevOps processes and the repository, bootstrap, Jenkins, Jira, Bitbucket, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, AWS, and EKS ecosystem to identify gaps and improvement opportunities. * Develop initial tool and platform roadmaps, including recommendations for technology currency, automation opportunities, and cost-aware improvements. * Build relationships with Scrum teams and stakeholders, becoming a trusted DevOps SME who helps shape delivery practices, platform standards, and operating priorities.

Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible IT experience, including DevOps, platform engineering, cloud automation, or infrastructure delivery. * Experience with CI/CD automation tools, cloud automation, Infrastructure as Code, and software version control; Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, and Git preferred. * Experience with containers, Kubernetes, cloud-native deployment patterns, and GitOps; AWS EKS and ArgoCD preferred. * Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms to support automation, infrastructure code, documentation, testing, or troubleshooting. * Experience working in managed services, project delivery, change management, or complex enterprise technology environments. * Strong understanding of modern DevOps, platform engineering, CI/CD, GitOps, cloud-native delivery, observability, and DevSecOps practices. * Linux administration, scripting, and automation skills using Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages. * Ability to communicate clearly, build relationships across teams, and translate business needs into practical technical solutions. * Strong problem solving, decision making, analytical thinking, and ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy. * Ability to mentor, advise, and influence technical teams while supporting standards, continuous improvement, and responsible AI-assisted engineering practices. * Bachelor’s degree in computer science, management information systems, or related area of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired.

It’s a plus if you have: * Experience modernizing legacy deployment processes into cloud-native, GitOps, or platform engineering models. * Enterprise software development or managed services experience.

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At ACT, Your Work Makes a Difference

Education has power - a power that changes lives forever. It creates opportunities that lift up individuals, their families, and sparks societal change that echoes through generations to come. From our grassroots we have fought the good fight for inclusivity in education, and we remain devoted to helping anyone who struggles to access that power. This is what matters to us and we must do better – we’ve never been more sure of our purpose.

ACT team members are part of an organization dedicated to a mission that has never been more important: Helping people achieve education and workplace success. Advancing that mission within our organization, by helping our team members achieve education and workplace success of their own, is core to our values. ACT values a diverse workplace and is committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which every team member has an equal opportunity to grow.

We want our team members to have the well-being and confidence they need to do their best work, in an environment where both they and ACT thrive. To support this, our total rewards include company paid life insurance, medical, dental, vision, flexible health and dependent spending accounts, 401(k) retirement savings with company match, paid holidays, paid time off, and so much more. You can find a comprehensive list of our benefits here., The finalist will be hired at the salary and level commensurate with their qualifications. For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary in the range of $100,000 to $130,000. ACT manages salaries within the range based on relevant factors including, skills, experience, and internal equity. This position is not incentive eligible.

When ACT was founded in 1959, it disrupted the assessment industry with a new approach to helping students better understand their readiness so they could take steps to improve it. By leveraging our expertise and authority in assessment and research, we will again disrupt the industry-helping more people learn, better measure their progress, and improve their navigation through life’s transitions.

More than ever before, ACT is fulfilling its mission of helping people achieve education and workplace success. We’re doing it by pushing the boundaries of learning innovation through the work of our people, who we call team members because we’re all in this together.

We know transformation does not come without challenge. That’s why ACT invests in a variety of experiences for team members to strengthen their connections, explore ideas, learn from customers, and celebrate success.