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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. INTO Suffolk University is seeking a DevOps Engineer for its Legal Innovation and Technology Lab. This role focuses on enhancing the accessibility of civil legal processes through electronic court filing initiatives and involves maintaining and expanding backend services while collaborating with law students and lab staff. Responsibilities • Support the backend of the Lab’s efforts to make civil legal processes more accessible to the public through electronic court filing initiatives across multiple states. • Help expand Docassemble hosting and e-filing for courts. • Add new capacity and maintain existing capacity. • Focus on spinning up new services as necessary, observing and monitoring existing services, maintaining reliability of those services, and investigating incidents, all while accelerating development and keeping maintenance costs low. • Assist with documentation, testing, and development of the Lab’s other ongoing software development projects. Skills • A relevant degree from a 4-year college and at least 3 years of relevant work experience alternatively, 7 years of relevant work experience • Experience writing and communicating about technical information • Ability to work with others as part of a team, combined with ability to work independently • Proficiency in Python • Experience releasing and maintaining production web services, including usage of the following technologies: cloud deployments (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure), Docker, version control tools, CI/CD pipelines, Linux, Database / SQL technology • On-call/incident experience • Modern web application security knowledge • Technologies in our specific stack: AWS, Fly.io, Papertrail, GitHub Actions, Ubuntu Server, and Postgresql • Experience with metrics and monitoring tools such as prometheus and grafana • Experience in modern python packaging and pip • Experience with Linux ops capabilities, i.e. systemd, syslog-ng, nginx, redis • Proficiency in +1 other programming language other parts of our stack include Java and JavaScript • Automation of services and release processes • Comfort working in the open and with other Open-Source communities crafting detail-oriented Pull Requests working with communities to merge features upstream Benefits • Generous benefits Company Overview • INTO Suffolk University provides an outstanding student experience for thousands of international students each year. It was founded in 1906, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, US, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://www.intostudy.com/suffolk.

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