DevOps Engineer II

About Solstice Analytics Solstice Analytics is a platform of builder-driven businesses, including Course Hero, CliffsNotes, LitCharts, Quillbot, Symbolab, and Scribbr, all united around a shared mission of supercharging productivity and learning for everyone. We attract and scale high growth businesses built and run by visionary entrepreneurs. Each team innovates independently but has a unique opportunity to collaborate, experiment, and grow together, and they are supported by centralized corporate operations functions, including HR, Finance and Legal. About Quillbot Quillbot was founded in 2017 with a mission to help students and professionals strengthen their writing. Today, we help over 56 million people around the world create great things. Whether you're writing, designing, coding, or collaborating, Quillbot is a place where anyone can create at the speed of thought. Our AI-powered tools help you think clearly, communicate effectively, and create beautifully—across every platform, in any format, at any skill level. If you're passionate about using technology to make the path from inspiration to execution more accessible, intentional, and relevant, come join us. Role Overview We are seeking a motivated DevOps Engineer II to join our growing Platform SRE team. In this role, you will support the design, deployment, and maintenance of our multiregion, multicloud infrastructure, with a primary focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You’ll work closely with senior DevOps engineers and developers to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability across distributed systems. As a DevOps Engineer II, you’ll help design, deploy, and optimize infrastructure to support ML training, inference, and data-intensive pipelines. This is an excellent opportunity for someone early in their career who is eager to deepen their expertise in Kubernetes, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, and cloud automation while gaining exposure to complex global infrastructure. Responsibilities Assist in managing multiregion and multicloud infrastructure, ensuring resiliency, scalability, and performance. Support infrastructure provisioning and deployments primarily on GCP, while gaining exposure to other cloud providers. Design, deploy, and maintain agentic AI workflows and automation systems, integrating LLMs, orchestration frameworks, APIs, and observability tooling to improve operational efficiency, incident response, and developer productivity. Collaborate with development teams to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI. Work on Kubernetes cluster management (GKE and potentially other managed K8s offerings). Contribute to GitOps-based deployments using ArgoCD. Help automate infrastructure with Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code tools. Monitor system health and participate in the on-call rotation, contributing to incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis to improve reliability. Document processes, create runbooks, and help improve operational practices. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent practical experience). 3-6 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles Solid foundation in Linux/Unix administration and basic networking. Hands-on experience with public cloud services (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, IAM, VPC etc). Understanding of Kubernetes concepts Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and ArgoCD for GitOps workflows. Interest or exposure to multicloud and multiregion architectures. Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills. Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or Go. Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation). Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or GCP Cloud Monitoring/Logging). Understanding of distributed systems design and global traffic management. Awareness of security and compliance best practices in a cloud-native environment. What We Offer A collaborative environment with mentorship opportunities. Exposure to large-scale, multiregion, and multicloud infrastructure challenges. Hands-on experience with modern DevOps tooling and cloud-native technologies. Competitive compensation and benefits. A structured growth path to advance into mid-level and senior DevOps engineering roles. Benefits & Perks Competitive salary and annual bonus Medical coverage Life and accidental insurance Vacation & leaves of absence (menstrual, flexible, special, and more!) Developmental opportunities through education & developmental reimbursements & professional workshops Maternity & parental leave Hybrid & remote model with flexible working hours On-site & remote company events throughout the year Tech & WFH stipends & new hire allowances Employee referral program Premium access to Quillbot *Benefits and benefit amounts differ by region. A comprehensive list applicable to your region will be provided in your interview process. This role is eligible for hire in Ind