Associate SecOps Engineer

A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.
Amplify is a leader in creating immersive, rigorous digital learning experiences that look great, play great, and help students expect great things of themselves. Amplify has been described as the best tech company in education, and the best education company in tech.
As an Associate SecOps Engineer at Amplify, you will join a dedicated team tackling the toughest problems in education with the best ideas in technology - including user experience, APIs and services, data analysis, and deployment pipelines. You'll play an active role in imagining and improving product design and the classroom experience.
We're looking for intellectual ability, flexibility, ability to learn, and commitment to working together in tight-knit teams.
Amplify's COVID-19 vaccination policy requires all staff to provide proof of vaccination for in-person meetings unless an approved exemption is provided.
What You'll Do
Our DevSecOps teams build the tools that empower every engineer to ship code to classrooms quickly and reliably. You'll be an Associate SecOps Engineer building and integrating the tools that keep our systems and data secure.
SecOps Engineers take a proactive role in building best-practices and sharing that culture. We focus on automation and innovative usage of integrating 3rd party cyber-security tooling with our internal workflows. Our work includes:

• Provide top-level support for the talented engineers that build customer facing applications to help teachers and students in classrooms throughout the U.S.
  
  • Helping teams across the company compelling apps by designing tools, workflows, and culture to ship code from laptops to classrooms frequently

• Adopt and advocate for best-practices to:
  
  • Help teams meet the ultimate reliability and uptime challenges for digital tools by integrating security into
    
    • Continuous integration
    • Configuration and deployment automation
  • Build data pipelines that respect privacy and ensure security while offering useful insights

• Learn every day by:
  
  • Collaborating, pull requesting, and being mentored on a cross-functional team
  • Participating in cross-team share-outs, brownbags, and workshop series

• Contribute knowledge and ideas to the Information Security Committee for the development of policies, standards, and best-practices

• Improve and participate in our security incident processes

Example Projects You Might Work On

• Participate in building and improving an innovative deployment framework that abstracts over deployment strategies including AWS EC2, AWS Lambda, AWS S3, Terraform infrastructure templates, Docker, and more
• Participate in a forward-thinking hacker engagement program
• Participate in rolling out enterprise-level security intrusion and detection systems

Basic Qualifications of the Associate SecOps Engineer:

• BS/MS in Cybersecurity, Computer Science or equivalent
• Knowledge of computer science and software engineering fundamentals
• Knowledge of cybersecurity fundamentals
• The ability to work with a close-knit team
• The ability to both give and receive constructive feedback
• Strong communication skills

Extra Credit For

• Experience with at least one cloud service provider
• Experience with tools we use every day:
  
  • Build: Linux, Jenkins, Docker, Python, AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline
  • Storage: PostgreSQL, S3, DynamoDB
  • Deploy: AWS (ECS, EC2, Lambda, etc.), Terraform
  • Monitoring: Datadog
  • Security: BurpSuite
• Passion and talent for teaching fellow engineers and non-engineers
• Passion for building and learning: open source contributions, pet projects, self-education, Stack Overflow
• Experience in education or ed-tech

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.
Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.