\n(Please note that we are currently only considering candidates who live in North America.)\n\nThis is a full time position with a dynamic, education-focused software company.\n\nWe make numerous web applications as well as desktop and mobile applications. Our catalog includes: Starry Night (starrynight.com), The Layered Earth (layeredearth.com) and SkySafari (skysafariapp.com).\n\nWe are looking for a superstar System Administrator / DevOps Engineer / Backend Developer to manage day-to-day maintenance, development, server restructuring and service upgrades.\n\nThe position is available via telecommuting, but a candidate based in the Montreal, QC area or Minneapolis, MN may be preferred.\n\nAs the Systems Administrator / DevOps Engineer you would:\n\n- Manage AWS setups including OpsWorks, EC2, CloudFront, Lambda, RDS and others.\n\n- Take care of DNS and other cloud services that Simulation Curriculum uses \n- Build web tools for internal use with PHP/Python/SQL/HTML/CSS/JavaScript \n- Help design and improve our server hierarchy by doing research on different technologies and services that we could utilize\n\n- Remotely manage OS X colocated machines.\n- Assist in improving our current database structure \n- Maintain our existing servers and services \n- Improve our logging and problem detection strategies \n- Write shell scripts to automate some of the server tasks \n- Manage server security and backup\n\n- Assist in testing new software and software updates that rely on back-end services \n- Assist in maintaining our websites and web services \n- Implement new websites/services and suggest improvements where possible