Senior DevOps Engineer

GiveCampus is the world's leading fundraising platform for non-profit educational institutions. Trusted by 1,300+ colleges, universities, and K-12 schools, our mission is to help advance the quality, the affordability, and the accessibility of education. We received a seed investment from Y Combinator in 2015 and have pursued a strategy of 'Sustainable Growth' ever since: achieving six consecutive years of profitability and positive cash-flow while more than quadrupling our revenue, our customer base, and our team. In 2022, we raised $50 million to accelerate the next stage of our growth.

Through The GiveCampus Social Mobility Initiative, we've donated $1 million in free fundraising support for programs that help low-income students, first-generation students, and underrepresented minorities. And in 2022 and 2023, we were named to Y Combinator's Top Companies list and the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies.

While we operate at meaningful scale (we've facilitated more than $6 billion in charitable giving), we’re still small relative to the commercial and social good opportunities in front of us. Every GiveCampus employee has a substantial impact on our trajectory, and we're growing to help schools achieve even greater results.

Our purpose-driven team of 120+ is located across the US: team members work from anywhere they choose. We have a beautiful 12,000 sf office in Washington, DC that is available for people to use whenever they want, and we regularly organize team meet-ups, events, and retreats in various locations. We're looking to expand our team with diverse and collaborative doers who believe in our mission and the transformative power of affordable, high-quality education.

Location: This is a remote-first role based in the U.S. While we embrace flexible, distributed work, we also value in-person connection. Team members are expected to attend multiple company-wide and team-specific onsites throughout the year.

We are looking for a brilliant and energetic Senior DevOps Engineer to join GiveCampus and help us take the platform to the next level. You will be a key member of our team, making technical decisions that will shape the company’s future. As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will help drive and strengthen our DevOps practices across the organization. You may be a great fit if you love architecting reliable systems, solving complex infrastructure challenges, automating anything that can be automated, and building resilient pipelines that empower our teams to ship quickly and safely.

Responsibilities will include:

• Design, build, and maintain a fully codified AWS environment using Terraform with zero manual changes.
• Architect scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, IAM).
• Drive multi-account architecture, VPC design, and environment standardization.
• Containerize existing applications and ensure production-grade deployments in AWS.
• Build migration playbooks, rollout strategies, and safe cutover processes
• Modernize CI/CD pipelines to use container-based builds and deployments.
• Implement self-service deployment workflows with automated rollback capabilities.
• Establish pipeline templates, shared build images, and guardrails for all engineering teams.
• Own Terraform modules, standards, and tooling to ensure reproducible and auditable infrastructure.
• Enforce best practices for versioning, module reuse, secrets management, and CI-driven Terraform plans/apply.
• Create automated checks to eliminate drift and prevent manual changes.
• Partner with the SRE Engineer to deliver end-to-end observability: logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and SLOs.
• Standardize instrumentation across services and environments.
• Improve system reliability, alert quality, and on-call readiness.
• Build and improve internal platform tooling to speed up local development, testing, and deployments.
• Provide clear, intuitive interfaces for application engineers to use infrastructure safely and independently.
• Remove friction from engineering workflows and reduce deployment times/cycle times
• Implement IAM least privilege, secrets management, and environment isolation patterns.
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines and containers align with security & compliance standards.
• Partner with Security Engineering to embed controls into infrastructure and deployments.
• Establish runbooks, standards, and automation for operational tasks (backups, failovers, DR plans).
• Continually reduce operational burden through tooling, automation, and resilient architectures.
• Monitor cost drivers and implement cost optimization strategies across AWS and CI/CD.
• Work closely with Application Engineering, SRE, Security, and Product teams to support new features and roadmap goals.
• Translate engineering requirements into scalable infrastructure designs.
• Participate in architecture reviews, incident postmortems, and planning cycles.

What we are looking for:

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering, with ownership of production AWS environments.
• Deep expertise in AWS services (ECS, ALB, VPC, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) — Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience designing highly available, scalable, and cost-efficient architectures (multi-AZ, auto-scaling, HA patterns).
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (VPC design, routing, VPN, NAT, security groups, load balancing).
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or equivalent; building container-based pipelines for AWS deployments.
• Experience with container orchestration (preferrably ECS) and image lifecycle management.
• Experience supporting and deploying Ruby on Rails applications in containerized or cloud-based environments.
• Competence in scripting or automation (Python, Bash, Go, or similar).
• Experience implementing or integrating observability tooling — metrics, tracing, and centralized logging (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK).
• Strong collaboration skills — partnering with SRE, Security, and Application teams.
• Track record of driving migrations or modernization projects (e.g., Heroku to AWS, monolith to containers).

Bonus Points:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional certified is preferrable

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At GiveCampus, we value diversity and we pledge to foster an environment of support, inclusivity, and learning, both on the job and throughout the application process. In this spirit, we encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.

GiveCampus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are not discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.

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