Encoura

Encoura

DevOps Engineer, II

Remote, US · Mid

Sponsorship not specified$116k-$129kDetected 7 days ago
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About the role

  • This is a hands-on role with full system ownership within a highly knowledgeable DevOps team, ideal for an engineer who thrives on autonomy, reliability, and impact.

Responsibilities

  • Own and maintain the reliability, performance, and availability of large-scale production systems - monitoring dashboards, reviewing alerts, and resolving incidents as they arise
  • Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and security teams to support deployments, migrations, and compliance initiatives
  • Implement and modernize incident management tooling and enforce security best practices and system hardening standards
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cloud migrations, infrastructure automation, and incident response at scale
  • Ability to independently design and deliver complex technical solutions with minimal direction
  • Able to lead the transformation from manual "hands-on" in Azure to Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform or ARM/Bicep templates

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering with a strong hands-on background in Microsoft Azure production environments
  • Experience with Azure services including Web Apps, Functions, SQL, Storage, Key Vaults, and Entra ID
  • Strong understanding of security best practices, system hardening, and compliance standards

Nice to have

  • BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent, or a Bachelor's in an unrelated field with at least 7 years of professional experience.
  • A relevant Master's degree is a plus

Skills

  • Serve as primary on-call and incident responder for customer-impacting issues, triaging, coordinating resolution, and leading post-mortems
  • Automate Azure infrastructure and services (Web Apps, Functions, SQL, Storage, Key Vaults, Entra ID) using IaC tooling

Compensation

  • The annual base salary range for this exempt position is $116,000–$128,800 and reflects the midpoint through maximum of the established range for this role.

Company info

  • Encoura's mission is to empower students and institutions to create meaningful connections so everyone can make the most informed decisions to achieve their goals. Since 1972, the Company has evolved its products and services to better represent the link between students and higher education institutions and to create the highest probability of student success.
  • Encoura's expertise now spans enrollment, research, marketing, student success, and advancement and provides an unmatched combination of higher education experience and innovative solutions for colleges and universities. The Company also offers Encourage® - the nation's largest free college and career planning program used by millions of high school students and educators nationwide.
  • It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. All applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.
  • Encoura endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability and need an alternative method for applying, please contact the Talent Team.
  • Encoura's mission is to empower students and institutions to create meaningful connections so everyone can make the most informed decisions to achieve their goals.
  • Since 1972, the Company has evolved its products and services to better represent the link between students and higher education institutions and to create the highest probability of student success.
  • Encoura's expertise now spans enrollment, research, marketing, student success, and advancement and provides an unmatched combination of higher education experience and innovative solutions for colleges and universities.
  • The Company also offers Encourage® - the nation's largest free college and career planning program used by millions of high school students and educators nationwide.
  • It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
  • All applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.
  • Encoura endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law.
  • If you are an individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability and need an alternative method for applying, please contact the Talent Team.
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