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About the Role

The Developer Platforms group is an essential part of The New York Times' engineering organization. They are responsible for building our Internal Developer Platform, used by over 60 teams and 450+ engineers in NYT Product Engineering.

As a member of the DevEx Application Delivery team within Developer Platforms, this Senior DevOps Engineer will help enable engineering teams at the New York Times to ship code with high velocity and quality.

You will report to the Engineering Manager of the DevEx Platforms team. This is a hybrid position, with the choice to work from home up to 3 days a week.

Responsibilities:

Help lead infrastructure and observability for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment platform, and establish ideal CI/CD workflows, ensuring engineering teams at the New York Times can ship code with high velocity and quality

Production support of our users, including weekly on-call rotations

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years of software programming(language-agnostic, but we use Go) and scripting like bash

3+ years of infrastructure provisioning and monitoring using Terraform and DataDog or Prometheus and with cloud services like AWS or GCP

2+ years running and troubleshooting workloads on Kubernetes clusters (understanding of resources management and observability)

3+ years working with CI/CD systems like Github Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD

Experience troubleshooting issues with users: You are motivated by helping others succeed

Additional Qualifications:

Experience in prompt engineering or building AI-powered internal tools

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$140,000 — $155,000 USD

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