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Senior DevOps Engineer (Full Time Contractor)
Summary:
Seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to partner with product engineering to deliver scalable, secure, and developer-friendly cloud platforms, owning cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and platform tooling.
Highlights:
1. Own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and platform tooling.
2. Continuously improve reliability, security, and developer productivity.
3. Work in a feedback-rich, collaborative culture making a global impact.
**Overview:**
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer in LATAM to join the team! As a Senior DevOps Engineer, 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.
**Nerdy's shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy:**
* Q3\-2025 Shareholder Letter
* Q2\-2025 Shareholder Letter
* Q1\-2025 Shareholder Letter
**Responsibilities:**
* Creation and management of AWS cloud infrastructure and configuration as well as ensuring systems and services are leveraging best practices, security, and standards.
* Strong experience and expertise with managing, securing, and scaling Kubernetes.
* Provide strong partnership with development teams to develop internal platforms and services to enable expediency and self\-service for development teams.
* 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:**
* 4\+ years of industry experience enabling developers through DevOps
* 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.).
* Experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform
* Experience with various programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Golang, shell).
* 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.
* AI\-native developer productivity, comfortable using and securing AI tools in the SDLC (code assistants, automation, prompt/tool orchestration)
**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 paid in U.S. dollars.
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100% Remote (Home Country Only): Work from anywhere in your home country—no relocation required, no borders crossed.
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Flexible Time Off: Our flexible PTO lets you recharge on your own terms and when you need it the most.
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Local Holiday Pay: We honor your nation's official holidays with paid time off—celebrate what matters to you.
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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.
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Supercharge with AI: Gain exclusive access to cutting\-edge AI tools that boost your productivity, making you feel almost super\-human (cape not included).
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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.
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* 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.

Av. Sarmiento 505, M5500EOM Mendoza, Argentina
ARS 16/hour