Senior Software Developer, DevOps

Job DetailsJob Location: Canadian Headquarters (CHQ - NFL) - St Johns, NL A1C 6C9Position Type: Full TimeSalary Range: $95,000.00 - $125,000.00 Salary/yearTravel Percentage: NoneJob Category: Engineering

Senior Software Developer, DevOps

What We Seek

We are looking for a Senior Software Developer, DevOps with strong CI/CD engineering experience to help us improve how software is built, tested, released, and deployed across Carnegie Learning.

This is a hands-on engineering role with CI/CD and software delivery engineering at its core. You will evaluate our existing build and deployment ecosystem, identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement, and engineer solutions that make software delivery faster, more reliable, more standardized, easier to troubleshoot, and safer for development teams.

You will work extensively with our Jenkins-based CI/CD platform, Groovy shared libraries, GitHub workflows, AWS environments, infrastructure as code, automated testing, code-quality tooling, and deployment automation. We are looking for someone who can do more than maintain pipelines—you should be able to understand how our current delivery process works, challenge what can be improved, and build reusable, maintainable solutions that move our CI/CD capabilities forward.

You should be comfortable developing across the entire software delivery lifecycle from code commit through build, test, artifact creation, deployment, validation, and rollback, while partnering closely with Software Engineering and QA teams.

You should also be a strong communicator who collaborates well in a distributed environment and is comfortable partnering across engineering, QA, SRE, security, support, and product teams. We value people who are practical, curious, accountable, and motivated by continuous improvement.

Our environment includes AWS, Jenkins, Groovy, CloudFormation, ECS/Fargate, GitHub, Jira, SonarQube, Splunk, New Relic, Cortex.io, Slack, Snowflake, Databricks, and other modern engineering tools and platforms.

Location is flexible! This role can work from our St. John's, NL office on the water, or remotely within Alberta, Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, or Ontario. Candidates must already be residing in Canada. No visa sponsorship is available.

What Your Day Will Look Like

DevOps, CI/CD and Developer Enablement

Design, develop, and improve Jenkins shared libraries, Jenkins files, and CI/CD pipelines using Groovy
Assess and optimize build, test, release, and deployment workflows for speed, reliability, scalability, and developer experience
Create reusable pipeline components and standardized delivery patterns that reduce duplication, manual effort, and operational risk
Develop and apply software engineering practices including source control, code review, automated testing, documentation, and maintainability when developing CI/CD tooling, automation, shared libraries, and reusable components
Improve build performance through better pipeline architecture, parallelization, caching, dependency management, and artifact management
Strengthen deployments through automated testing, quality gates, validation, health checks, environment promotion, and rollback capabilities
Partner with development and QA teams to improve how applications are built, tested, packaged, versioned, and deployed
Modernize CI/CD practices and use delivery metrics to identify bottlenecks and measure improvement
Lead technical improvements that modernize engineering tools and practices, reduce manual effort and operational risk, and improve developer productivity and deployment confidence
Support Carnegie Learning's evolution toward platform engineering and developer self-service, leveraging Cortex.io to improve service ownership, standards, and engineering insights

DevOps and Cloud Engineering

Build and manage secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, primarily CloudFormation
Support containerized application deployments using Docker and AWS ECS/Fargate
Develop code, scripts, tools, APIs, and reusable components that automate engineering and operational workflows
Troubleshoot complex issues across application code, builds, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, networking, and configuration
Identify root causes and implement sustainable solutions rather than short-term workarounds
Modernize legacy tooling and processes where it improves software delivery, reliability, or developer productivity

Deployment and Operational Readiness

Use Splunk, New Relic, and AWS CloudWatch to validate deployments and troubleshoot application, infrastructure, and pipeline issues
Improve deployment monitoring, alerting, rollback, and post-deployment validation
Participate in incident response and root cause analysis when build, release, deployment, or infrastructure issues contribute to production problems
Support production reliability through performance monitoring, capacity awareness, and improvements related to software delivery and infrastructure
Turn recurring delivery and operational issues into automated, corrective, or preventative improvements

Collaboration and Ownership

Lead CI/CD and DevOps improvements across engineering teams
Partner closely with Software Engineering, QA, SRE, Security, and Architecture
Provide technical guidance, share knowledge, and help teams adopt effective CI/CD, DevOps, cloud, and software delivery practices
Influence technical decisions and engineering standards across teams through practical recommendations, reusable patterns, and hands-on implementation
Establish clear standards, documentation, reusable examples, and operational runbooks
Take ownership of complex technical problems from investigation through implementation and validation
Contribute to a culture of teamwork, accountability, continuous improvement, and customer focus

On-call on a monthly rotating basis; after-hours work is limited but occasionally required.

What Should Be In Your Bookbag

You bring 7+ years of experience in DevOps, CI/CD engineering, software engineering, platform engineering, or cloud engineering, along with strong communication skills and the ability to independently solve complex technical problems.

Must be highly experienced in:

Jenkins, Groovy, and CI/CD engineering — including Jenkins files, shared libraries, reusable pipeline components, build agents, and pipeline troubleshooting
Software delivery engineering — including build systems, automated testing, artifact management, versioning, deployment, validation, rollback, and improving delivery speed and reliability

Needs solid experience in:

AWS and Infrastructure as Code — particularly CloudFormation or Terraform
Containers and cloud-native deployments — including Docker and platforms such as AWS ECS/Fargate
Git/GitHub and troubleshooting across application code, builds, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, networking, configuration, and deployment environments

Helpful or preferred:

Experience with observability and deployment-validation platforms, GitHub Actions, code-quality and DevSecOps tooling, platform engineering/developer self-service, DORA or engineering productivity metrics, and database troubleshooting

What Gives Us Purpose

Others teach what; we teach why. For over 25 years, Carnegie Learning has developed solutions that help students achieve Aha moments and set them up for long-term learning success. We’re driven to find new, better ways to support teachers and reach more students, so we put our leading cognitive science research and real-world insights into solutions for how students think, learn, and do their best. This is a key part of our commitment to helping teachers spark student curiosity. As a Carnegie Learning team member, you’ll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of students and educators.

What We Provide

Holistic Wellbeing


	Cost-shared health and dental benefits plan
	Competitive Retirement Savings Matching Program to plan for your future


Fostering Joy

	Flexible work arrangements with our Work From Anywhere Policy
	Your Time, Your Way - paid time off that you can use as you see fit to recharge and nurture your personal life


Empowering Parenthood 

	Top-Up Parental Leave 
	Reduced working hours on full pay for new parents
	Free access to CL products for employees and their children


A Place for Connection

	Quarterly Wellness Incentives
	Monthly employee activities + recognition program
	Employee Allyship Groups (EAGs)

What We Believe

We celebrate the unique attributes, characteristics, and perspectives that define each person's individuality. This fusion of perspectives enriches our collective knowledge, fosters innovation, and empowers us all. Together, we can collectively and more effectively address issues that face our business and industry. If our commitment to building an inclusive workplace resonates with you, we invite you to join our mission and welcome you to apply with us. Carnegie Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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