Senior DevOps Automation Engineer (Full time Contractor - India)
Overview:
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Automation Engineer located in India to join our Nerdy team! In this position, you will partner with DevOps and product engineering to deliver scalable, secure, and developer-friendly cloud platforms in a fully remote environment. You will own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and platform tooling while continuously improving reliability, security, and developer productivity.
About Nerdy:
At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) - the company behind Varsity Tutors - we’re redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI™ platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale.
We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you’d bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.
Fortune favors the bold. Join us.
How we compete:
AI-Native at every level
From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you’re not wielding AI, you’re not done.Entrepreneurial velocity
Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.Free-market rigor
Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.Full-stack ownership
You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.Reward for contribution
Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both what you achieve and how you achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded.Relentless exploration
Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.Is Apolitical
You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes.
If you’re a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition, personal responsibility, and the chance to redefine how the world learns - while continually stretching the limits of what generative AI can do - come do the most ambitious and rewarding work of your career here. Learn more at nerdy.com.
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Responsibilities:
Creation and management of AWS cloud infrastructure and configuration as well as ensuring systems and services are leveraging best practices, security, and standards.
Provide strong partnership with development teams to develop internal platforms and services to enable expediency and self-service for development teams.
Build, deploy, and operate infrastructure and services across our multi-platform environment: AWS, Netlify, and Supabase.
Use AI-powered tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent) to accelerate infrastructure work, generate and review automation, and build self-service workflows.
Automate repetitive operational work end to end, including provisioning, environment setup, deployments, rollbacks, scaling, patching, and routine maintenance.
Provide partnership with other teams such as financial, legal, and operations.
Provide, maintain, and optimize the build process to support continuous integration.
Investigates, debugs and drives improvements to the engineering and build automation process.
Support and improve efficiency and effectiveness of tools (CI/CD, automated testing, automation and release).
Work cross-functionally to assess risk and help deliver countermeasures that protect customers and company data.
Ensure that the SaaS services and associated infrastructure maintain required levels of security, availability, reliability, scalability, and performance to meet SLAs.
Build incident management, operational monitoring, and alerting capabilities to proactively report, troubleshoot, and fix problems.
With the team, own vendor management for existing and new vendors the team leverages.
Regular on-call rotations for team owned services and infrastructure.
Qualifications:
5+ years of industry experience enabling developers through DevOps, platform engineering, or automation.
Industry experience with security and vulnerability of cloud infrastructure (prevention, detection, and remediation).
Strong experience building and maintaining AWS (Amazon Web Services) infrastructure (EC2, ELB, ALB, VPC, IAM, Route53, Lambda, Kinesis, CloudWatch, etc.).
Ability to debug across DNS, TLS, HTTP, networking, processes, IAM, and Postgres.
Hands-on experience with Netlify & Supabase.
Experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform.
Demonstrated ability to build python applications with clear interfaces, tests, validation, and failure handling.
AI-native developer productivity, comfortable using and securing AI tools in the SDLC (code assistants, automation, prompt/tool orchestration)
Proven track record of automating manual operational work end to end, including self-service tooling, CI/CD pipelines and driven automation across AWS, Netlify, and Supabase.
Strong experience with pipeline tools such as GitHub Actions.
Diligent mentality, robust sense of responsibility/accountability and strong verbal/written communication, documentation, and collaboration skills.
Demonstrated experience collaborating with a team to develop and enhance amazing platforms and services.
Unleash Your Potential at Nerdy:
At Nerdy, you'll earn your success through meritocracy and exceptional outcomes. Our benefits reward performance and initiative:
Competitive USD Compensation: Enjoy a market-leading rate.
100% Remote (Home Country Only): Work from anywhere in your home country—no relocation required, no borders crossed.
Flexible Time Off: Our flexible PTO lets you recharge on your own terms and when you need it the most.
Local Holiday Pay: We honor your nation’s official holidays with paid time off—celebrate what matters to you.
Continuous Learning: Get a free, all-inclusive learning membership for you and your household—including 1-on-1 tutoring hours, unlimited on-demand classes, and access to our full suite of learning products and services.
Supercharge with AI: Gain exclusive access to cutting-edge AI tools that boost your productivity, making you feel almost super-human (cape not included).
Feedback-Rich, Collaborative Culture: Tap into regular training, peer reviews, and a team that treats every team member as a vital collaborator and owner in our success.
Make a Global Impact: Your expertise fuels an innovative platform used by learners around the world—be part of something transformative.
The Bottom Line:
If you're driven by impact, energized by ownership, and excited to help shape what’s next, you’ll thrive here. We move fast, think big, and reward those who deliver. This isn’t a traditional corporate environment - it’s a place to do the most meaningful work of your career.