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US News - Washington, DC
posted 4 days ago
About the position
U.S. News & World Report is looking for a full-time Sr. DevOps Engineer to modernize, secure and administer our cloud infrastructure to help deliver dynamic, data-driven products for one of the globe's most trusted brands. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will develop a complete understanding of our web application platforms and play a key role in modernizing our stack. You will be part of a team responsible for all of the organization's code and production deployment pipelines, infrastructure, security, network and development environments. We have a diverse environment, mostly Linux and macOS with some Windows. The majority of our development effort involves building & maintaining web applications on Python, Node & Java. The DevOps team works almost exclusively within cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in conjunction with other software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. Our applications support just about every aspect of company operations, including content management for the usnews.com website, data ranking products such as Best Colleges/Grad schools and Best Hospitals, and other business applications. We offer a casual, flexible, hybrid-remote work environment. Our offices are located in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D.C. This position is only looking to hire local DC based applicants. Remote candidates will not be considered at this time unless open to relocation to the DMV area.
Responsibilities
- Assisting with all cloud resources needed by the company including their security, compliance, monitoring, utilization and performance
- Improve site performance at the origin & CDN level
- Respond to production issues 24x7 on call rotation
- Control expenditures of technologies used
- Support the development lifecycle and deployment of multiple technology teams in the company
- Transform Deliverables into actionable items for the devops team and prioritize them
- Work on reliability, security, cost optimizations or performance improvements for our infrastructure through terraform, cloudformation, or configuration of different SAAS tools yet to be onboarded to infrastructure as code
- Actively help developers with architecture design, development issues or issues in their production environment or pipelines
Requirements
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (IaaS) and SaaS platforms
- Proficiency in Linux and macOS environments
- Experience with web application development using Python, Node, and Java
- Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
- Ability to respond to production issues in a timely manner
- Strong understanding of security and compliance in cloud environments
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with CDN technologies
- Familiarity with monitoring and performance optimization tools
- Previous experience in a DevOps role
- Knowledge of cost optimization strategies in cloud environments
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid-remote work environment
- Casual workplace culture
- Opportunity to work with a diverse team
- Engagement in meaningful projects that impact millions of users
