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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:

You can read more about what we are up to in Technology at The Times in general on our Open Blog.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$140,000—$155,000 USD

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Senior DevOps Engineer - CI/CD Platforms

The New York Times