Senior DevOps Engineer (Full Time Contractor)

Remote - Argentina

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.

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.

• AI‑Native at every levelFrom the CEO to day‑one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you’re not wielding AI, you’re not done.
• Entrepreneurial velocityMove at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.
• Free‑market rigorIdeas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.
• Full‑stack ownershipYou design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.
• Reward for contributionPay 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 explorationPush the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.
• Is ApoliticalYou 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 atnerdy.com .

• 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.

• 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)

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.
• 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.

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.