Senior DevOps Engineer - CI/CD Platforms

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. 

About the Role

The Developer Platforms team is an essential part of The New York Times' engineering organization. Its responsibilities are profoundly technical and include system cloud architecture, building platforms with integrated CI/CD workflows, runtimes, routing and observability, to name a few.

You will be a part of the DevEx Application Delivery Team within Developer Platforms responsible for building the basic building blocks for the software development that allow engineering teams at the New York Times to ship code with high velocity and quality.

As a team member, your daily job would include evaluating the current development practices, procedures and tooling, and evolving them to be more efficient. You will report to the Engineering Manager on the DevEx Application Delivery team and will preliminary focus on modernizing the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment platform.

Some of the tech we use: GCP, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Drone, Jenkins, Terraform, Vault, Go, GitHub, ArgoCD

 

Responsibilities:

• Research, Architect, Develop and Maintain core infrastructure for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment platform that supports hundreds of builds and deployments per day

• Work within multiple areas of focus (e.g. deployment pipeline, containerization, observability, secrets management) and research, strategize and propose solutions that meet requirements, reduces friction for product engineers, and consolidates existing solutions

• Promote developer productivity by rolling out capabilities that maximize self-sufficiency and minimize the toil in learning those capabilities in building scalable applications with high speed, quality, and performance

• Work with Project Management, Product Management, and other professionals within your team and across the organization In strategic discussions, technical roadmap, and hiring

• Production support by participating in on-call rotations for the tools we build, and providing expertise to users of our solutions.

• Mentor junior engineers and guide feature teams about the usage of DevEx App Delivery tooling and solutions

• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world

• This role reports to Thilak Subramanian

 

Basic Qualifications:

• A bias and empathy towards helping people. Many teams will rely upon you for help to build their systems

• A Proficiency in designing, building, and deploying scalable cloud-based solution architectures on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform

• 4+ years of experience using Programming languages like Go, Python or NodeJS

• Expertise in rolling out CI/CD solutions with capabilities such as Blue/Green and Canary cloud-agnostic deployments

• Proficiency with Cloud-native App Development, Ex. 12-factor apps, container orchestration technologies, and provisioning immutable infrastructure using Terraform

• An understanding of CI/CD concepts

• An appetite for automating things such as deployments, testing, monitoring releases. We love repeatable processes and know that humans are prone to error

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience operating or rolling out CD platforms such as Spinnaker, Harness

• Observability tooling such as DataDog, Prometheus

 

Here are some examples of the work that has been done over the years on Developer Platforms:

• The New York Times runs on the Google Cloud Platform

• Stress Testing in Production: The New York Times Engineering Survival Guide

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