This is a full time position witha dynamic, education-focused software company.

We make numerous web applications as well as desktop and mobile applications. Our catalog includes: Starry Night (https://starrynight.com/starry-night-8-professional-astronomy-telescope-control-software.html), The Layered Earth (https://layeredearth.com) and SkySafari (https://skysafariastronomy.com).

We are looking for a superstar System Administrator / DevOps Engineer to manage day-to-day maintenance, development, server restructuring and service upgrades.

The position is available via telecommuting, but a candidate based in the Montreal, QC area or Minneapolis, MN may be preferred.

As the Systems Administrator / DevOps Engineer you would:

-Manage AWS setups including OpsWorks, EC2, CloudFront, Lambda, RDS and others.

• Take care of DNS and other cloud services that Simulation Curriculum uses

• Build web tools for internal use with PHP/Python/SQL/HTML/CSS/JavaScript

• Help design and improve our server hierarchy by doing research on different technologies and services that we could utilize

• Remotely manage OS X colocated machines.

• Assist in improving our current database structure

• Maintain our existing servers and services

• Improve our logging and problem detection strategies

• Write shell scripts to automate some of the server tasks

• Manage server security and backup

• Assist in testing new software and software updates that rely on back-end services

• Assist in maintaining our websites and web services

• Implement new websites/services and suggest improvements where possible