As a of the Delivery Engineering and Infrastructure Services team, your day to day job would include evaluating the current development practices, procedures and tooling, and evolving them to be more efficient. You will also be a part of a team responsible for building the tools that ensure that the various systems at The New York Times continue to operate in a reliable and efficient manner.
Work within various areas of focus (e.g. monitoring, secrets management, deployment pipeline, containerization, etc) and research, strategize, and propose solutions that meet requirements, reduces friction for product engineers, and consolidates existing solutions.
Drive adoption and onboard teams to Infrastructure and Delivery Engineering tooling and solutions.
Work closely with engineering teams to learn about needs, current process and to promote best practices
Work with multiple teams and help migrate legacy application stacks to cloud infrastructure
Manage multiple small teams with senior folks and also be a manager to managers in a couple of instances
Required Experience
Manager with prior significant development experience and a strong software engineering background
A good understanding of various modern and legacy application architecture
Experience with building and running systems that need to scale based on needs
An understanding of cloud based deployments on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.
A passion towards automating things. We love repeatable processes and know that humans are prone to error. We’d like to automate deployments, monitoring releases and even brewing our coffee.
An understanding of the 12 Factor App. It is one of our goals to move our systems in this direction.
A high degree of interest in Linux containers and smart clustering solutions like Kubernetes/Mesos/fleet, etc.
A bias towards helping people. Many teams will rely upon you for help to build their systems.
A willingness and drive to build high performing teams that others can learn from
A high degree of empathy for existing solutions and issues. The New York Times is quite modern in many ways but is also prone to having issues that a 165 year old organization may have - including legacy systems and processes. There are many things to fix.
Nice to Have
Working experience with Docker/Kubernetes
Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery techniques and tooling
Some of the tech we use
Go, Bash, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Packer, Docker, Kubernetes, Vault, Consul, Drone
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