Staff DevOps Engineer

• As a Staff Engineer, DevOps, you’ll be a key technical leader and role model within LearnUpon
• You’ll shape the DevOps architecture of our best-in-class LMS, influence our technical strategy, and elevate the skills of our entire engineering organization
• Your impact will extend beyond our product, contributing to our mission of building robust, lovable learning products that help customers achieve results
• Drive DevOps best practices around CI/CD, automation, scalability and reliability across LearnUpon’s infrastructure and pipelines
• Drive technical innovation and strategic initiatives across multiple teams and services
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to uplevel the entire engineering organization
• Collaborate with Product Engineering teams and cross-functional partners to shape our long-term technical roadmap and strategy
• Identify and solve complex technical challenges that significantly impact LearnUpon’s growth and success
• Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, system design, and operational excellence
• Mentor and coach engineers across the organization, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth
• Resolve conflicts and drive alignment between teams, building a cohesive engineering culture

Benefits

• Work in a fun and supportive environment with regular team events

• Excellent career progression – take LearnUpon where you think it can go

• Structured learning environment

• Employer Contributed Pension

• Private health insurance

• 25 days annual leave + 1 annual company wellness day off

• Flexible Working Arrangements

• Demonstrated success in leading technical initiatives that span multiple teams and services

• Track record of mentoring and elevating the skills of other engineers, including senior-level talent

• Deep focus on containerized environments, with experience supporting local development, CI/CD workflows, and deployment across the cloud

• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders at all levels of the organization

• 8+ years of exceptional DevOps/SRE experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership in large-scale, distributed systems

• Strong experience working with Kubernetes and Helm charts, as a foundation for modern infrastructure and platform orchestration

• Expertise in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred), and developing automation tooling (Bash, Python, Go)

• Proven expertise in cloud infrastructure, especially AWS, with a deep understanding of scalability, reliability, and security in production environments

• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), with a focus on building modular, reusable infrastructure patterns

• Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box in order to apply, we’re always happy to review applications and take all experience into consideration. We do our best to provide feedback where we can!

• Experience leading engineering initiatives across multiple locations

• Experience with cost management for cloud infrastructure

• Contributions to open-source projects or thought leadership in the software engineering community

• Familiarity with GitOps workflows using tools like ArgoCD and FluxCD

• Qualified applicants will be invited to schedule a screening call

• Successful candidates will then be invited to a series of practical interviews

• Finally, candidates will have a short interview with a member of our C-Suite Team

• The successful candidate will be contacted with an offer to join our team