ApplyBoard simplifies the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and educational institutions on one intuitive and personalized platform. ApplyBoard is a mission-driven, hyper-growth organization. It has been attracting dedicated individuals for more than eight years who are inspired every day to break down barriers to international education and take their careers to new heights at a company that will invest in their career growth. Our six core values are our compass in our mission to Educate the World and the foundation of our unique company culture. As an organization built on a foundation of diversity, it’s important that our team members are representative of the students from more than 140 countries that we support.

The Opportunity:

As a senior Cloud Services Engineer, you will be a hands-on technical leader within the Infrastructure & Cloud Services team. As a senior technical leader within the Cloud Services team, you will provide technical leadership and mentorship to the team along with representing the cloud services team within the organization. You will design and implement solutions based on provided requirements. You will interact with other Infrastructure & Cloud Services team members in addition to Software Engineering leads, development managers, and business managers to evaluate both new as well as evolvement of existing technologies. The senior Cloud Services Engineer will be the first responders to troubleshoot and maintain existing systems as the need arises.

What you’ll be doing every day:

• Lead the team in developing and maturing our technology and processes across Dev Enablement (CICD, IaC and GitOps), Cloud Infrastructure (Security, Network, Storage and Compute) and DevSecOps (Observability and Operations with strong security focus).

• Collaborate with the cross-functional teams to forge (plan, research, prototype and implement) our tech stack and processes to ensure fast, efficient and high quality delivery of ApplyBoard’s initiatives.

• Raise the bar on our security posture by proactively remediating risks associated within our domain.

• Enhance our observability viewpoint to provide greater insight into our operations, infrastructure and processes, leading to improvements in our reliability, cost optimization and user experience.

• Guide the team into making data-driven decisions, ensuring measurable results which drive automation and process improvements, which follow engineering best practices.

• Troubleshoot and resolve, reported software and system issues in production and non-production environments.

• Identify Security risk and implement security best practices.

• Research, prototype, implement new services and/or tools to support delivery of capabilities in our engineering roadmap.

• Create and maintain documentation for changes, updates and resolutions.

• Clearly and openly communicate the status of open issues to stakeholders.

• Leverage your experience to support the Cloud Services operational team in responding to issues to ensure continuous availability of our platform. No job is too big or too small.

What you bring to the table:

• 5+ years of practical hands-on DevOps experience with private/public Cloud Architecture, Networking, DevSecOps/SRE.

• Experienced with SaaS software development and SDLC, focused on dev enablement like CI/CD pipelines and Cloud operations.

• Strong experience in Infrastructure as Code and automation with Terraform and/or CDK.

• Great communication skills. (Yes, everyone writes that - but we really mean it.)

• Demonstrated ownership and pride in the quality of the software and infrastructure you work on, and the way that it succeeds in meeting the needs of its users.

• Ability to explain and defend an informed opinion while maintaining an open mind.

• Experience with engineering and operational practices and processes which promote incrementalism, frequent delivery and tight feedback loops - without sacrificing quality.

• Strong depth of practical experience and knowledge of public cloud providers (preferably AWS)

• Developing and maintaining products that are used by many thousands or millions of people.

• Maturity, high judgment, ability to influence, analytical talent and leadership.

Ideally, you also have experience with some of:

• Kubernetes, EC2, ELBs, Docker, Linux

• Cloud Security principles and best practices

• AWS Services but not limited to: VPC and Security Groups, EC2, ELBs, CloudFront, Route53, WAF and AWS Lambda.

• Proficiency in at least one language such as: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, Node, React and shell scripting.

• Identity Management, AWS IAM, SSO, Okta and Google

• Microservices, RESTful APIs, JSON.

• CICD Pipelines, Jenkins, AWSCodeBuild, GitHub Actions

• AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, RedShift, Redis, Kafka

• Observability, New Relic, AWS CloudWatch.

• Service Ticketing Systems (Jira, OpsGenie)

About ApplyBoard

ApplyBoard empowers students around the world to access the best education by simplifying the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process to more than 1,750 institutions across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Ireland. Headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and with an additional operational office in Gurugram, India, ApplyBoard has helped more than 600,000 students from over 150 countries fulfill their study abroad dreams since 2015.

In 2022, Deloitte named ApplyBoard one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada for the fourth consecutive year, ranking #30 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and #170 on the 2022 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list. ApplyBoard ranked on LinkedIn’s 2022 Top Startups List in Canada in 2020, 2021, and 2022 and was recognized as CIX’s Innovator of the Year 2022 and the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 Ontario Winner. In 2023, ApplyBoard India was Great Place to Work® Institute (India) certified for outstanding employee experience and workplace culture.

Thank you for your interest in joining ApplyBoard on our mission to Educate the World. Please note that only qualified applicants that have been selected for an interview will be contacted.

ApplyBoard welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.