Faria is a leader in international education systems & services, offering an integrated suite across learning, admissions, school-to-home, and online courses — trusted by 10,000+ schools and 4 million students across 155 countries.
Our product family includes ManageBac (curriculum, assessment & reporting for international schools), OpenApply (admissions management & CRM, used by 600+ leading international and independent schools), SchoolsBuddy (co-curricular & activity management), and Vectare (school transport management).
Behind these products is a globally distributed engineering team that keeps a large multi-cloud production environment running reliably around the clock.
We’re looking for a Middle DevOps / SRE Engineer to help keep our multi-cloud production environment reliable, secure, and fast. You’ll join a globally distributed team working follow-the-sun — on everything from research and PoCs for new applications to deployment automation, security hardening, and day-to-day support for our developers.
What you’ll do
Operate, monitor, and improve production infrastructure across AWS and Azure (incl. China regions)
Automate deployments and infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines
Proactively improve stability, performance, and security — preventing incidents before they happen
Respond to incidents within SLA, troubleshoot, and drive root-cause fixes
Support developers with infrastructure-related questions and unblock their work
Participate in the on-call rotation
What we’re looking for
3+ years in DevOps / SRE, including hands-on AWS experience
Strong AWS: EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, EKS, ECS, Lambda, ELB (ALB/NLB), CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Secrets Manager, SES, Security Hub, Inspector
Azure: App Service, Container Apps, Front Door, CDN, Azure SQL Database, Storage Accounts, Virtual Network (VNet), Azure DevOps
Containers & orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
CI/CD & version control: GitHub Actions, solid Git workflow
Scripting: Bash and Python
Linux administration, networking, firewalls, web servers (Nginx/Apache)
Monitoring & observability: Prometheus (Kubernetes), Grafana, ELK, Loki, incident management with PagerDuty
Solid understanding of SDLC and SLA-based incident response
Strong troubleshooting skills and a structured, methodical approach
English B2+
Nice to have
AWS / Azure certifications
Alibaba Cloud experience
Experience with Ruby, Python, C# web application frameworks (deploying and troubleshooting)
Basic understanding of disaster recovery & database backups (PITR, restore procedures)
Experience with compliance-driven environments (GDPR, ISO 27001, China data residency)
Cost optimization / FinOps awareness
Experience with AI applications
Who you are
Proactive — you suggest improvements and work ahead of problems, removing risks before they become incidents
Calm under pressure, able to juggle multiple complex tasks with a clear head
A team player who takes ownership and is accountable for their area of responsibility
Eager to learn and grow to support both current and new products
All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, or sex. Faria operates a safer recruiting policy, and the successful applicant may be required to complete an enhanced disclosure from the DBS and an Enhanced Check for Regulated Activity.
Please note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted due to a high volume of applicants.
Working conditions
Globally distributed team operating follow-the-sun across time zones
On-call rotation during business hours plus weekend coverage. Urgent off-hours/night escalations happen only for major incidents — these are rare, and we actively invest in keeping the
