Senior DevOps Engineer (Full Time Contractor)

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 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 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 contributionPay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both what you achieve and howyou 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.

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.
• 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.