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About the Role
The New York Times (NYT) is looking for a senior platform engineer to join our Engagements team, within our Delivery Engineering (DV) department. We are building an internal developer platform, and the Engagements team is crucial to adoption of platform and reaching our goals of improved developer productivity across the entire organization.
Our department provides standard cloud infrastructure and tooling to the majority of NYT Product Engineering teams (60+ teams, 450+ engineers), helping them focus on feature development while ensuring that applications are more reliable, scalable, observable, operable, performant, and secure.
To achieve that objective, the Delivery Engineering Engagements (DVE) team collaborates with many other NYT engineering teams to understand their systems and product goals, inform DV of requirements, and implement best practices to improve developer productivity.
Responsibilities:
- You will help guide product feature teams on the usage of Delivery Engineering tooling and solutions.
- You will also engage with engineers across the entire department to make incremental improvements to our tech strategy and the implementation of our platform.
- 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 our Director of Developer Productivity.
Basic Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience with services provided by Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.
- 2+ years of experience operating Kubernetes clusters (cluster management, container orchestration, networking)
- 1+ years of experience doing migrations to different cloud providers.
- 1+ years of experience doing database migrations.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience provisioning infrastructure using Terraform.
- Kubernetes certifications such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) or CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer).
- Experience with service mesh technologies like Istio.
- Experience configuring observability tools such as DataDog and Prometheus.
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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