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When our infrastructure is unavailable, research proposals miss federal deadlines, financial closes stall, and students cannot register. Reliability is not an internal engineering preference here; it is a contractual and reputational obligation, and it is tested continuously.\nOur DevOps team owns the DevOps processes for Kuali's SaaS platform - the cloud infrastructure it runs on, the infrastructure-as-code that defines it, the self-service paths product teams deploy through, and the observability that tells us how it is behaving. That is the job.\nWho are we?\nKuali builds software solutions for higher education. We help our customers - colleges & universities - focus on providing a fantastic education to students by decreasing their administrative costs. We work in a competitive space, ripe for innovation, with users ready to be delighted.\nOur Culture\nAs a company, we are guided by our cultural values:\nIterate to evolve\nCultivate openness\nAct with accountability\nAssume the best\nPractice humility\nDeliver amazing experiences\nAs Kuali Engineers, we learn from and teach each other, we practice transparency and empathy, we delight in delivering value to our customers, and we WIN!\nWe work remotely and have for years. Distributed work is in our bones, with a history of institutions working together across state lines for more than twenty years. Our employees each work in the environment where they’re happiest, from Pennsylvania to Seattle. We work consciously to create a collaborative and healthy remote work culture, and we travel to meet in person a few times each year.\nAbout you\nYou have operated production at genuine stakes. You have been the person responsible when something important was down.\nYou automate reflexively and treat sustained toil as a defect rather than a fact of life.\nYou are calm in incidents. 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