About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer who can own the cloud infrastructure of Leap. As a seasoned professional, the individual should be able to drive upgrades at the infrastructure level, handle the scale and should be able to readily rectify any outages that might occur.

The charter will include :

• Ensuring zero-time deployments.
• Auto-scale the infrastructure during high traffic periods.
• Identify and resolve infrastructure related issues in production.
• Support development teams during dev cycles and resolve any environment related issues.
• Own the alerting and monitoring infrastructure.
• Stay up to date with the industry standards and best practices.

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Ideal persona would have :

• 1.5 - 3 years of experience in a DevOps or similar role, working with AWS or other cloud platforms .
• Have worked on AWS services, specifically, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, VPC etc.
• Strong understanding of containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Solid scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages for automation purposes
• Proficiency in configuring and managing Nginx as a reverse proxy, load balancer, and web server.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as ELK stack, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Experience in managing and optimising PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elastic Search and Redis Cache datastores.
• Strong understanding of version control using Git and familiarity with best practices for code management.

Everyone at Leap is entrepreneurial, moves fast and operates with extreme ownership.

There is minimal management and extreme autonomy.

If the above defines you, you will fit in snugly.

What is Leap?

Leap is a global student mobility platform that empowers students’ aspirations for a global career and education

We have built this and this and this

We work at the exciting intersection of fintech & edtech

And we love that we succeed as a business while powering the dreams of talented students!

How far along are we?

We are the leaders in our space by a mile!

We are backed by Sequoia, Jungle Ventures, Owl Ventures & Harvard!

Read the latest fundraise news here

Who are we as people?

We have a lean, rockstar team.

We have come this far with a lean team because we love to increase the talent density with every new member we add. Yes, we are more picky than the usual company.

We hire slowly and deliberately

You can meet our founders here -> Arnav Kumar and Vaibhav Singh

Arnav tweets here

What will you be doing?

We are now building our leadership team and would love to engage

This is a great time to join the rocketship and participate in the upside -

Broadly,

You will have tearing-your-hair level complex & challenging problems to solve

With massive upside if you solve them

In a super fast paced environment that will challenge you

With enough resources to be audacious

And mentorship from an experienced founding team