Civitas Learning is looking for a highly professional and confident individual to join our Deployment team. As a Senior Data Access Engineer you’ll play a pivotal role in configuring optimizing and maintaining critical infrastructure that facilitates secure and efficient data access for millions of users across multi-tenant/multi-region environments. You’ll lead complex data integration solutions ensure the highest levels of security and collaborate strategically with internal and external teams to enhance Civitas Learning's application delivery and customer support capabilities. Key Responsibilities Lead the configuration automation and maintenance of infrastructure serving millions of users accessing applications in multi-tenant/multi-region environments acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME). Design and implement optimizations for existing infrastructure components with a paramount focus on setting up maintaining and troubleshooting VPN connections ensuring top security. Lead the implementation and management of Single Sign-On (SSO) across multiple products and oversee the setup of data extracts/ingests using internal ETL tool sets. Work extensively with organizations within and outside the company (including AWS Product Teams) to define scope implement test deploy and monitor existing and new products and internal tooling related to data access. Uphold security as the number one priority integrating and enforcing robust security measures across all data access infrastructure and processes. Provide high-level troubleshooting and resolution for complex data access and integration issues. Actively contribute to the optimization and elaboration of existing infrastructure components and continuously seek opportunities to improve efficiency and reliability in data access. Required Qualifications 5-8+ years of progressive experience in Data Access Engineering DevOps Cloud Engineering or a related infrastructure role with a strong focus on data integration and access. Proven experience in configuring and maintaining infrastructure serving high user volumes in multi-tenant/multi-region environments. Expertise in setting up maintaining and troubleshooting VPN connections and implementing/managing SSO. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field. Technical Skills Operating Systems Ubuntu OS X Amazon Linux. AWS Core Services VPC EC2 Route53 EKS Elastic Map Reduce Redshift AWS RDS. Networking & Protocols VPN (Ipsec PPTP L2TP SSL HTTP) application transport and network infrastructure protocols DNS concepts. Directory Services/Auth SAML AWS Simple AD LTI. Public Key Infrastructure SSH PGP TLS. RDBMS Postgres SQL Server MySQL Oracle. Languages Python Bash. Version Control Git GitHub Web/GitHub Enterprise. Metrics (DataDog Statsd ELK Splunk) Continuous Integration (Jenkins) Virtualization (Vagrant) Containerization (Docker podman containerd argocd) (Desirable) Please note that this position is structured on an hourly contract basis and the role will be managed as an hourly contractor agreement. The salary range mentioned corresponds to the hourly rate. Hourly value $25 $35 USD WHY WE LOVE WHAT WE DO At Civitas Learning we seek to help colleges and universities apply their vast student data to maximize institutional impact and improve the student outcomes that matter most. Civitas Learning’s flexible all-in-one Student Impact Platform creates actionable insights that surface in a connected workflow enabling higher education institutions to pinpoint students at risk of missing important milestones explain why take action and evaluate which policies and programs are making a difference. With adaptable analytics based on models built for each institution and higher education expertise we empower leaders and teams to turn insights into action to support students in reaching their full potential Civitas Learning is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age disability genetic information protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. #LI-Remote