About us

Intellum is the leader in corporate education technology and powers the largest, most successful customer, partner, and employee learning programs in the world. Large brands and fast-moving companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Walmart, Xero, Atlassian, Mailchimp, Airbnb, Stripe, and TikTok rely on Intellum to engage and educate the audiences they touch.

We have always been a “remote first” company and are proud to have team members located all over the world. We value Curiosity, Creativity, Perseverance, and Kindness and strive to demonstrate these core values every day. Our culture is very important to us. We invest in our people in fun and exciting ways, including personal development budgets and an annual all-company retreat that is focused less on work and more on human connections. We are in growth mode, and our “smart growth” approach ensures that we will continue to scale our company effectively.

Summary

The primary focus of the DevOps/Systems Engineer is building, maintaining, and monitoring a virtual infrastructure using automation as much as possible to achieve these goals. They should also ensure that the infrastructure is secure, fault-tolerant, well documented, and backed-up properly. A successful candidate will have a strong focus on automation and avoid manually repeating tasks.

The ideal candidate is a self motivated person who can work independently with little supervision and can be responsible for their tasks from start to finish, they can communicate clearly with the team and actively seek help to accomplish their goals. They are comfortable taking decisions within their areas of responsibility.

Attention to detail is a very important part of the job, when submitting your resume write the phrase “details matter” on the top.

Our stack

• Applications written in ruby on rails and node, using postgresql and mongodb for storage, redis, memcached, elasticsearch, websockets, etc
• CI/CD stack based on Spinnaker and Jenkins
• Infrastructure as code with terraform + ansible
• Multiple cloud providers AWS + Google Cloud

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with software engineers to provide them with the best possible development experience
• Implements application level changes to rollout new tools and adapt to new infrastructure.
• Automate processes and workflows to reduce the workload and ship products faster.
• Create and manage technical infrastructure documentation and training documents for departmental use.
• Work with software engineers to ensure application updates fit with the infrastructure and modify it as needed.
• Monitor virtual infrastructure and be part of a 24x7 on-call rotation to respond to alerts.

Required Skills

• 3+ years of experience working in infrastructure and operations. SRE, systems engineering, sysadmin, etc.
• Demonstrable coding skills or software engineering experience
• Experience in developing solutions using server automation tools such as Ansible.
• Experience with Cloud computing Amazon Web Services and/or Google Cloud
• Experience writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and services.
• Familiar with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Ability to dig into unfamiliar code bases.
• A sense of comfort working in a team-oriented and collaborative environment
• Can communicate clearly and seek help and support proactively
• Takes ownership of tasks and leads them to completion

Bonus skills (not required)

• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails stack
• Technical writing

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

• Occasional irregular work hours and travel
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, etc.
• Extended time viewing a computer monitor
• Sitting or standing for extended periods of time
• Thinks strategically analyzing ambiguous situations to provide targeted solutions