NWEA has a new opening for Systems Engineer (Linux) in our downtown Portland location. This is a full-time opportunity with excellent compensation; outstanding benefits; and career growth opportunities.
Founded by educators nearly 40 years ago, Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) is a global not-for-profit educational services organization known for our flagship interim assessment, Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®). More than 7,400 partners in U.S. schools, districts, education agencies, and international schools trust us to offer pre-kindergarten through grade 12 assessments that accurately measure student growth and learning needs, professional development that fosters educators’ ability to accelerate student learning, and research that supports assessment validity and data interpretation. To better inform instruction and maximize every learner’s academic growth, educators currently use NWEA assessments and items with nearly 10 million students. Our research-based core lets us do what’s driven us from the beginning: give educators tools proven to help them make a difference. We are searching for talented individuals who desire to make a difference in education by demonstrating a commitment to our mission: Partnering to help all kids learn®.
Position summary
Systems Engineers are members of the Product Engineering group (PE) at NWEA, a high-functioning team of creative, collaborative, motivated and professional individuals driven by the singular mission of partnering to help all kids learn. We are in search of like-minded individuals who want to build and operate cutting-edge technologies to deliver a SaaS assessment platform that supports upwards of 100,000 concurrent users. If you embrace a dynamic environment, the spirit of innovation and the importance of education, then we would love to see what you can do. We are building a world class product organization that rivals the largest software as a service companies in the world.
As a member of the Technical Operations team within PE, you will design, build and manage a world class infrastructure to support NWEA's products and mission. Our team consists of forward-thinking individuals who want to disrupt the traditional mold through progressive design and implementation practices.
Anybody can hire folks to look after a 24x7 organization and you can find that job anywhere. At NWEA, you will also make a difference in education and gain both depth and breadth of knowledge and experience by being part of one of the best companies in Portland. We are growing as a DevOps organization that believes in Scaling, Transforming, Growing, Leading, and Innovating while having fun and making a difference.
Below is the fine print of the job. But what you really need to have is the following:
;Passion for education
Willingness to fail, learn and grow
;Innovative spirit
;Interest in automation
;Desire to understand how your responsibilities fit into the big picture
Responsibilities
Install, configure, maintain and automate multiple Redhat/CentOS Linux environments via Puppet and Foreman
• Participate in continuous integration efforts and Agile software development processes to support regular software releases for our SaaS platform
• Lead the evaluation, selection and deployment of new technologies and tools
• Work with project managers, department heads and team members to determine project approaches, parameters and priorities
Work with colleagues to optimize overall system performance. This includes working with applications, network, storage, database and server technology
Provide support to internal and external clients, including participation in the 24x7 on-call rotation
Perform system audits, document findings, and publish recommendations
Keep abreast of technical developments to ensure the NWEA is able to take advantage of industry advances
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Systems Engineer (Linux) at NWEA (Portland, OR)
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