Staff Software Engineer 1

At PowerSchool we are a dedicated team of innovators guided by our shared purpose of powering personalized education for students around the world. From the central office to the classroom to the home PowerSchool supports the entire educational ecosystem as the global leader of cloud-based software for K-12 education. Our employees make it all possible and a career with us means youre joining a successful team committed to engaging empowering and improving the K-12 education experience everywhere.

Team Overview

Our Hosting team manages and supports the infrastructure of all our platforms from hardware to software to operating systems to PowerSchool products. This collaborative team helps meet the needs of an evolving technology and business model with a specialized focus on protecting customer data and keeping information secure. We work closely with product engineering teams to deliver products into production environments across Azure and AWS.

Description

The Hosting Team is repsonsible for our production deployments across Azure AWS and GCP. This role is specific to our Analytics and Insights platform which is built and deployed using AWS Snowflake and Kubernettes. This role is responsible for the ongoing design development and support of the automation platform for delivering the Analytics & Insights product into production. This role performs the following responsibilities

• Design develop and operate Infrastructure-as-code automation for Terraform K8s Snowflake and while also executing customer tenant migrations in Analytics and Insights.
• Manage and optimize K8s clusters and workloads using Argo CD Flux and Helm.
• Configure and support dynamic connector configurations.
• Work with the Product Engineering teams in building out the specifications and provide scalable reliable platforms for the automation/delivery platform
• UI Development for internal dashboards and management applications
• CI/CD pipeline engineering and support
• Environment support including production support
• Participate in on-call schedules

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant and related work experience.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Additional experience may be substitute for an advanced Degree.
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Kubernettes Flux Terraform or equivalent technologies
• Advance knowledge of AWS services including EKS EFS RDS ECS etc
• Working knowledge of monitoring logging and alerting tools like Grafana and Prometheus
• Strong Java Python and Git experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid understanding of software engineering principals
• Azure experience a plus

EEO Commitment

PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process please let us know by emailing