Job description
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
We are seeking a passionate technologist and collaborative partner to help shape and evolve a centralized, scalable container runtime platform built on Kubernetes. In this role, you’ll contribute to the team’s technical vision, work across observability, security, deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and containerization, and partner closely with product engineering teams to optimize applications for the cloud. You’ll promote modern automation practices such as Infrastructure-as-Code and automated access management, surface technical risks, document best practices and production support playbooks, and participate in on-call rotations for the tools you help build. You will report to the Senior Manager of the Cloud Engineering Team.
This NYC-based hybrid role (2 days per week in office)
Responsibilities:
Contribute to shaping the technical vision for the team
Develop, operate, and collaborate on the evolution of a centralized, scalable container runtime environment built on Kubernetes
Surface technical risks and partner with stakeholders to assess technical complexity and sustainability needs
Work within the overlap of several areas of focus: observability, security, deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure and containerization
Promote the use of modern automation around access management and Infrastructure-as-code
Work with product engineering teams, helping them optimize applications for cloud infrastructure
Document best practices, prescribed solutions, and production support playbooks
Participate in on-call rotations for the tools we build, and provide expertise to users of our 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.
Basic Qualifications:
3+ years of building and operating distributed systems
Experience collaborating on large projects with significant impact
1+ years of Experience with AWS cloud tooling
A high degree of interest in Linux containers and managed clustering solutions like AWS EKS/ECS/Fargate, and GKE
Experience with Infrastructure-as-code concepts
Preferred Qualifications:
A passion for automating things
An understanding of distributed systems architecture and experience with networking, load balancing, monitoring, and troubleshooting in a cloud environment will be a plus
A high degree of empathy for existing solutions and issues. The New York Times is modern in many ways but is also prone to having issues that a 165-year-old organization may have - including legacy systems. There are many things to improve
A commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
This role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.
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The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$110,000—$130,000 USD
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