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Blenderbox, Inc. · 2 months ago

Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract / Remote)

United States

Contract

Remote

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Blenderbox, Inc. is a leading enrollment management platform trusted by major U.S. school districts, delivering robust and scalable solutions in education technology. They are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to audit their infrastructure, provide expert recommendations, and guide the transition to a multi-tenant architecture to optimize performance and scalability.

ConsultingE-CommerceInternetLegalVideoWeb Design

Culture & Values

Responsibilities

Conduct a comprehensive audit of our AWS-based infrastructure (including ECS, Fargate, Terraform IaC, CloudWatch/Sentry monitoring, and disaster recovery setups) and Python/Django application to identify scalability, performance, reliability, and security gaps

Recommend and implement best practices for high-availability architectures, fault-tolerant mechanisms, and elastic scaling to handle high-traffic scenarios without downtime

Design and set up a shared tenant instance model, ensuring data isolation, independent scaling per tenant, and compliance with security standards

Facilitate load testing processes to identify performance optimization opportunities

Collaborate with our engineering team to enhance CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and integrate observability tools for proactive monitoring and alerting

Qualification

AWS servicesDevOps experiencePython/DjangoMulti-tenant architectureContainerization (Docker)Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)Monitoring toolsConsulting experienceProblem-solving skillsCommunication skills

Required

7+ years of DevOps experience, with proven expertise in building and optimizing high-availability, high-traffic applications (e.g., handling peak loads in SaaS environments)

Deep knowledge of AWS services (ECS, Fargate, S3, CloudFront, WAF, CloudWatch) and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform

Familiarity with Python/Django ecosystems, including GraphQL (Graphene), task queues (Celery), and databases (PostgreSQL, Redis)

Experience designing multi-tenant architectures with emphasis on isolation, scalability, and security

Expert knowledge of containerization (Docker), monitoring/anomaly detection

Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to communicate technical recommendations clearly

Prior consulting or auditing roles in fast-growing startups or enterprise environments

Benefits

Flexible part-time schedule.

Fully remote.

Competitive hourly rate commensurate with experience.

Company

Blenderbox, Inc.

We’re dedicated to improving government systems and services to ensure they are efficient, effective, and responsive to the diverse needs of all users.

Founded in 2000

Brooklyn, New York, USA

11-50 employees