DevOps Engineer

About Atom Learning

We're Atom Learning and our mission is to help every child reach their potential. We use machine learning and a visually engaging tech platform to bring a fun, high-quality and personalised learning experience into every child's home.

We combine exceptional teacher-made content with cutting-edge technology to provide fantastic affordable education to all learners globally, regardless of background.

We're one of Europe's fastest-growing EdTech companies. Since 2018 we've grown from a startup of four friends to almost 110 people. Our brilliant colleagues include specialists across education, engineering, product, learning design and marketing.

We're remote-first! While our main office is in London, our team is composed of over 110 people (and counting) working from 10 countries.

The role

As a DevOps Engineer at Atom Learning, you will play a key role in keeping our infrastructure running smoothly and securely as we continue to scale. You will work closely with the wider DevOps team to maintain, monitor and improve our cloud-hosted environments, as well as supporting our growing team with their day-to-day technical needs.

You will take ownership of building and maintaining services, responding to incidents, and helping to shape the reliability and performance of the systems that power our platform. You will be encouraged to champion best practices across the team and contribute to the continued improvement of our infrastructure and tooling.

This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys solving complex technical problems, and wants to make a real impact at a mission-driven EdTech company.

What you will do

• Leverage AI tools to orchestrate the rapid development and improvement to our various environments and supporting infrastructure

• Work in the DevOps team to maintain and monitor our entire infrastructure estate

• Build and deploy new services in our cloud-hosted environments

• Respond to incidents on critical environments and help drive resolution

• Act as a force multiplier to our engineering team to allow them to ship product safely and securely

Who you are

• An excellent communicator who can work effectively across technical and non-technical teams

• A strong problem solver with hands-on experience across technologies such as Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, networking and cloud environments

• Someone with a solid understanding of the SDLC and a good level of proficiency with Git

• Comfortable with software development or scripting

• A champion of cyber security best practices

• Curious and self-motivated, with a proven track record of picking up new technologies quickly

• Experienced in DevOps and/or infrastructure support (SRE) roles

Experience that would set you apart

• Working with Linkerd service mesh

• Experience using Hashicorp Terraform and Vault

• Experience with CockroachDB and/or MySQL and general low-level database understanding

• Knowledge of GCP and Cloudflare product suites

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays;

• 3 days winter leave;

• Work from anywhere in the UK or within GMT +/-2 hours time zone; we're a remote-first company;

• Annual L&D budget;

• Private medical;

• EMI options available;

• Access to wellbeing platform;

• Competitive pay;

• Enhanced family leave;

• Monthly remote and in-person events in London;

• High degree of autonomy and exposure to the running of all business areas of a successful startup;

• Brilliant colleagues and the opportunity to become an integral member of a fast-growing tech company.

What we build

Our tech platform combines gamified learning exercises with machine learning to deliver world-class educational content which is engaging and adapts to each user’s specific knowledge and needs. We also apply data science to build analytics and other tools for educators and parents to also work in more targeted ways to encourage more learning.

Excellent user experience is at the heart of what we do. We build engaging user interfaces that make education fun and motivate kids to learn more. Those experiences are also powered by scalable microservices that process millions of interactions from students each month, and we’re constantly seeking improvements to the algorithms that power our AI so they find the right balance between challenging students whilst also ensuring they feel a sense of growth and accomplishment.

We <3 open source and are big believers in contributing back to the ecosystem. We’ve taken our first steps with our design system and can’t wait to share more tools with the dev community in the future.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

At Atom, diversity and inclusion is a priority, but also a necessity. To create a new standard for education across the world, we need a team of people with diverse perspectives so that we can challenge the status quo and reimagine learning experiences that work for everyone.

We're an equal opportunity employer that is committed to fostering an inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and have an impact. We encourage all applications irrespective of gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, nationality, marital status, and disability.

We also aren’t too concerned about qualifications, or whether you’ve followed the “conventional path” to get here. In fact, we highly value experience from other industries and walks of life - so don’t hesitate to apply, even if you don’t think you meet the exact criteria in this job description, we can work with you on the rest!