AWS Cloud Engineer

Since our start in 2015, weve gone from a group of individuals to a community pushing toward the same goal of building a fantastic company with great people, great products, and, most importantly, a great culture.

Apptegy is building products to empower school leaders to run better schools.

We are growing quickly and are focused on bringing thoughtful, high-performers together to craft amazing products for our clients and to make Apptegy a better place than it already is.

What weve built & are building: Apptegy works with thousands of schools and school districts across the United States.

For the past 6 years, weve been working to make our technology a breath of fresh air.

School leaders, superintendents and administrators have some of the most stressful and demanding jobs in the world.

They are responsible for the safety, well being, and education of thousands of students.

Every day they juggle the roles of politician, disciplinarian, visionary, and accountant.

In short, we are enabling school leaders to brand, market, and strengthen their schools.

Amazing events and happenings occur in schools every day and our technology allows that to be shared across web, mobile, social media, and alerts with a single, simple-to-use tool.

As an AWS Cloud Engineer you will: A Cloud Engineer at Apptegy is someone who works within the wider DevOps team but has a particular focus on cloud products and services.

We leverage AWS in all aspects of our engineering infrastructure and are continuing to expand into new and different areas.

The ideal candidate will have an excellent level of technical expertise in a broad spectrum of AWS offerings and highly developed systems architecture credentials.

This role is high visibility and very important to us.

As a Cloud Engineer at Apptegy you will: + Be responsible for the planning, implementation, and growth of the AWS cloud infrastructure.

+ Implement AWS-based solutions with a focus on security and high availability.

+ Be working every day on distributed systems that scale on-demand.

+ Continuously highlight areas of improvement across DevOps and recommend a path towards holistic solutions.

+ Communicate daily with the DevOps and Engineering team and are equally comfortable presenting to a non-technical audience.

+ Take ownership end-to-end of our infrastructure footprint.

Help mentor those around you and support our development team in providing observability and metrics.

Relevant skills: We are very interested in candidates who have good coverage (you dont need all) with the following skills: + Youve designed and maintained highly available, cloud-based infrastructures in AWS.

+ Understanding of auto-scaling technologies and high-throughput designs.

+ Know and can demonstrate how to overcome and protect against a DDoS attack.

+ Very strong on the basics (Route53, EC2, ACM, ELB, VPC and S3).

+ Have implemented one or more CloudFront Distributions and understand the core use-cases for a CDN.

+ Good experience with container products, either ECS or EKS are directly relevant to us (EKS especially).

+ Infrastructure As Code CloudFormation, Terraform.

+ App Logging and Monitoring CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Open Tracing, AppSignal.

+ Some background in Serverless (notably Lambdas).

+ Some background in Event Driven Architecture.

What is expected of engineers at Apptegy?

We expect a lot of our engineers.

Weve been able to build an exceptional team that cares about their work and each other.

We are also fortunate to have the opportunity to build products, platforms, and features that empower schools and school leaders to highlight their strengths and give the best opportunities to their students.

Self-driven & Always Learning: At Apptegy, we believe that the right people are intrinsically motivated.

We have built a team of engineers that enjoy learning and take that responsibility seriously.

Whether they are starting out on their career or well into their experience, they are still looking to improve on their weaknesses and to use their strengths to help others.

In short, they are naturally motivated to do meaningful work and they own their learning experience.

To quote one experienced engineer that joined Apptegy in 2020, People here are like some sort of crack squad of commandos.

They are running into what needs doing and doing it.

Theyre more likely to do too much than too little.

This is an excellent team.

An interest in Culture and Code: We reject the stereotype that engineers want to be left alone to work.

In our experience, engineers care deeply about culture, empathy, and enjoying the people they work with.

Many of our best engineers were as curious about culture as anyone in People or HR would be.

We have been able to create a high performing and thoughtful culture across the company and that extends to and is made better by Engineering.

That means you get time to do great work and you get to be surrounded by people who care about their work and you.

Speak up: In some companies, engineers have to wait their turn to speak up.

You have to have a minimum number of years of experience to have a voice at the table.

Or if youre a senior engineer, you need to hold off until youve gained the trust of the veteran engineers.

At Apptegy, you have a voice from the start.

Some of the best ideas have come from junior engineers that see things differently.

We want the best ideas to win no matter who it comes from.

And those times when the best idea comes from someone else are an opportunity for you to learn and to increase your learning process.

What is true of you?

An aptitude for challenge & a track record of success: + You have completed a four-year college degree ideally in Computer Science or similar (or without a technical degree, you have experience building successful products and platforms for 5+ years) + You have an impressive track record in your academic and work history.

+ You have been involved primarily inside Amazon Web Services (AWS) and have worked closely with build and cloud automation tools.

An ability to manage your day and be effective & efficient: + You have managed your own workflow and schedule.

+ You do not need someone to guide your day or tell you what to do next.

Strong communication skills: + You enjoy and have experience presenting or communicating in a professional environment.

+ You know how to communicate your ideas + You want to learn from and listen to the ideas of other engineers What else should I know?

We take our responsibility as a company seriously and aim to make this the best job that youve had (and one that sets you up for future success).

We want your day at work and your time at home to be a joyful experience thats why we provide: + Medical, dental, vision insurance for you and dependents + Matching 401(k) retirement plan + Discretionary/flexible paid time off policy + Parental leave + Dependent Care FSA + Annual travel bonus If the challenge of building a rapidly growing startup excites you as much as it does us, we hope that youll consider joining us.

–Apptegy is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

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