The New York Times is looking to create tools and services that abstract underlying cloud infrastructure in AWS to make it easier for product engineering teams to develop and run their code.
Requirements
- 3+ years of building and operating distributed systems
- 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
- An understanding of distributed systems architecture and experience with networking, load balancing, monitoring, and troubleshooting in a cloud environment
Responsibilities
- Contribute to 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
Other
- Hybrid (2 days a week in office)
- 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.
- A high degree of empathy for existing solutions and issues.
- This role may require limited on-call hours.
