Senior DevOps Engineer

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 -- weve 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.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help us fulfill that mission.

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.

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 $100000 to $130000. ACT manages salaries within the range based on relevant factors including skills experience and internal equity. This position is not incentive eligible.

Location: This is a remote position based in the United States.

Visa: Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for visa sponsorship.

What you will be working on:

60% - Process and Solution Design Leadership and Governance

• 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.

This could be the job for you if you have (minimum requirements):

• 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.

• Bachelors 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.

Its 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.

About ACT

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 industryhelping more people learn better measure their progress and improve their navigation through lifes transitions.

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

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

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Completion of the ACT National Career Readiness Certificate is recommended. Find a testing site near you to register for the WorkKeys assessments. Finalists for this position will be subject to a criminal background check as a condition of employment.

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