Cloud Team Lead

TEGNA Inc. • Knoxville, TN

20h

About The Position

TEGNA is seeking a hands-on Cloud Team Lead to lead the cloud and DevOps team building and operating infrastructure for its content management and streaming platforms across Azure and AWS. Content management runs on Azure using C#/.NET Function Apps and Service Bus; streaming uses AWS media services; and cloud-agnostic services run on Kubernetes. The infrastructure is managed with Terraform.

Reporting to the Platform Engineering Manager, the role leads onshore and offshore cloud engineers and owns team delivery and infrastructure reliability while contributing directly to the work. The Cloud Team Lead partners with the Cloud Architect, who establishes reference architectures and standards and holds production approval, and collaborates with microservices teams on their infrastructure needs. The position supports content management and streaming delivery across TEGNA's media properties.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in cloud, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.
• At least 2 years of experience leading or mentoring a team.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code practices across Azure and/or AWS.
• Experience with CI/CD, containers and Kubernetes, cloud networking, IAM/identity, observability, and security best practices.
• Experience operating production infrastructure and leading incident response.
• Ability to lead distributed and offshore teams while maintaining quality and velocity across time zones.
• Strong communication skills across front-end, architecture, and microservice development teams.

Nice To Haves

• Multi-cloud experience.
• Media, streaming, or high-traffic platform experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a distributed team of onshore and offshore cloud and DevOps engineers, owning planning, delivery, quality, and day-to-day technical direction.
• Contribute hands-on to Terraform and infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes workloads across Azure and AWS.
• Own infrastructure reliability, performance, and operational excellence, including incident response and the on-call rotation.
• Break infrastructure initiatives and epics into actionable, well-sequenced work while balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health.
• Partner with the Cloud Architect to apply defined standards, reference architectures, and guardrails, and work with development pods to support delivery.
• Drive engineering practices for infrastructure as code, pipeline safety, observability, and security.
• Mentor and develop engineers, and manage the throughput and quality of offshore contributors.
• Run an Agile/Scrum delivery cadence with disciplined source control.

Benefits

• Two medical plan options for full- and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas.
• Dental and eye care coverage.
• Fertility, surrogacy, and adoption assistance.
• Disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with employee contributions and a 100% company match on contributions up to the first 4% of pay; company match is 100% vested from day one.
• Nine free virtual doctor appointments annually for employees and eligible family members, regardless of enrollment in TEGNA medical plans.
• Twelve free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician for employees and eligible family members.
• Generous paid time off.
• Nine paid holidays per year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed