Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Senior DevOps Engineer
DevOps Team | New Delhi, India

Your goal – to improve the education process and better the lives of students -- through empowering our Engineers to build software which is both highly available and of high quality.

The organization: Chegg Learning Services

Our internet services are 100% Amazon based. From ideation in our development environment to the scale of production, we leverage Amazon technologies. The team’s primary focus is to support the engineering organization. While the engineering teams have the ability to leverage Amazon services, this person and their team will be partners in those efforts.

The Role:

The optimal candidate:
Your early career was focused on Engineering. You were in the trenches building code and experienced success in production environments. You soon developed a passion for the work needed to make highly available services. You’ve built internal tooling which has gained high adoption. Even before it was a title, you were a site reliability engineer. You found further success in evangelizing good practices to both engineering and operation teams.

Responsibilities:

• Own the operations for all Chegg learning services systems running on AWS
• Support the key evaluation metrics for your organization
• Support the communication of metrics around mobile apps and services availability
• Identify and prioritize projects to enable self-service Engineering organization within AWS
• Innovate, share and educate both team members and the Chegg community

Requirements:

• Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent training or work experience.
• 5+ experience in site reliability or operations responsibilities.
• Strong Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Strong Experience with Linux operating system administration
• Strong Experience in any programming language, preferably Python.
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience with monitoring/reporting technologies (e.g. Zabbix, Graphite/Grafana, CloudWatch)
• Capable of quickly analyzing complex problems, understanding dependencies, and deducing the root cause
• A solid Ops foundation - you’re always thinking “What happens if this fails?” when building things. Demonstrate a strong process oriented mindset
• A Team player who willingly jumps in and uses their broad experience to recommend and implement the best solution for our environment
• Bonus: Supported the operation of mobile apps dev cycle

What is Chegg?

An ‘always on’ digital learning platform.

Chegg puts students first...Everything we build in this company is student-focused, making us the leading student-first connected learning platform. Chegg strives to improve the overall return on investment in education by helping students learn more in less time and at a lower cost. This is achieved by providing students a multitude of educational tools from affordable textbook rentals to Chegg Study which supplements their learning through 24/7 tutor access, step-by-step help with questions, and more. Chegg is a publicly-held company based in Santa Clara, California and trades on the NYSE under the symbol CHGG.

Why do we exist?

Students are working harder than ever before to stabilize their future. Our recent research study called State of the Student shows that nearly 3 out of 4 students are working to support themselves through college and 1 in 3 students feel pressure to spend more than they can afford. We founded our business on provided affordable textbook rental options to address these issues. Since then, we’ve expanded our offerings to supplement many facets of higher educational learning through Chegg Study, Chegg Math, and Chegg Internships and more to support students beyond their college experience. These offerings lower financial concerns for students by modernizing their learning experience. We exist so students everywhere have a smarter, faster, more affordable way to student.

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