Staff DevOps Engineer

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.

HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit

Technical Infrastructure

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS EC2, Terraform Enterprise, Docker, Aurora, Kubernetes, ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana).

• Observability & Automation: Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Telegraf, Apollo, GraphQL.

• Development Stack: Microservices architecture, Spring, Java, NodeJS, React, Express.js.

• Data & Storage: Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, InfluxDB, Linux, GitHub.

• AI & Agentic Automation: AWS Bedrock LLMs, Agentic AI frameworks, AI-assisted platform engineering.

About the role

You will constantly be asking, what are the most important platform and infrastructure challenges we need to solve today that will improve the reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience of HMH's engineering organization.

• Define the technical vision and architecture for HMH's DevOps and platform engineering capabilities.

• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, security, and developer platforms.

• Drive AI-enhanced DevOps automation through autonomous agents and intelligent operational workflows.

• Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Security, SRE, and Product teams to establish reusable platform capabilities and engineering standards.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and influence long-term technology strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).

• Define reusable platform patterns, golden paths, and self-service developer capabilities.

• Own architecture decisions for Infrastructure patterns, CI/CD, Kubernetes platforms, observability, secrets management, and cloud governance.

• Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, resiliency, security, and cloud cost optimization.

• Lead major production incident reviews and drive long-term architectural improvements.

• Mentor Senior Engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.