Job Overview:
We seek an experienced Senior AWS Systems Engineer to join our team of more than a hundred software engineers, designers, project managers and software specialists that are smart, creative, and passionate about what they do. Some of our ground-breaking work includes:
As a Senior AWS Systems Engineer, you will work as core member of our team to deploy, monitor, maintain, and optimize the cloud infrastructure supporting our development activities and production applications. Our infrastructure currently leverages EC2, ECS, WAF, ELB, CloudFront, API Gateway and Lambda. Our data architecture is built on self-hosted SQL server along with S3, RDS, Redshift and Elasticsearch. Our applications require high reliability and high performance and experience high peak demands.
You will work autonomously or with small teams of systems engineers and software developers, taking a lead role in planning, configuring, supporting, and enhancing our complex infrastructure. You'll need to be self-motivating and ready to take the initiative to identify opportunities and solve problems.
We are seeking a well-rounded individual with solid AWS experience and excellent technical, communication and collaboration skills. We will prefer candidates with a solid understanding of traditional hosting architectures and practices. A successful candidate would be able to aid the team in technical areas and work cross functionally with our development teams to address any issues with an end-to-end solution.
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Why Work With Us?
When you work with Cambium Assessment, you'll be helping to design and build inspiring solutions that make a real impact on the online testing industry, as well as the educators and students we support.
Our systems are highly scaled and mission critical serving over a third of all students in grades 3-8 in the United States.
Our web applications are highly interactive and universally accessible.
Our machine scoring methods are driven by artificial intelligence allowing computers to perform such complex operations as grading essays with more accuracy than humans.
Our processes use intensive algorithmic computing allowing a customized experience for each student as the exam adapts real-time based upon answers given.
In the 2021-2022 school year, we delivered more than 100 million online tests, successfully supported peak testing volumes exceeding 1.3 million simultaneous test takers, while ensuring an average response time of less than a tenth of a second. We have the most advanced features of any online testing system, and we continue to push boundaries to improve student performance measurement and enabling educators with actionable insights to drive better overall educational outcomes for our students. To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.cambiumassessment.com
An Equal Opportunity Employer
We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.