Infrastructure Engineer

Advance Local Media LLC•Jersey City, NJ

78d•$120,000 - $130,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Strengthening and empowering all of the communities we serve. This is a hybrid position in Jersey City, New Jersey. This role requires to be on location in our Jersey City office one to two days per week or more often as needed. The Infrastructure Engineer collaborates with others to scale and secure our web and data platforms. This position builds cloud infrastructure across Amazon Web Service (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), using tools like GitLab and Terraform to automate deployments and embed security in delivery. This role blends cloud engineering, developer enablement, and security-minded practices to deliver reliable and well-governed systems. The base salary range is $120,000 to $130,000 per year.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical work experience
Minimum five years' experience building/running multi-account cloud platforms in production, with three or more years on AWS or GCP
Three or more years owning CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/GitHub), artifact/security gates, and release automation
Demonstratable experience supporting enterprise web infrastructure, DNS, and CDNs.
Hands-on IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), monitoring, and incident response
Strong collaboration and communication skills to work cross-functionally with developers, security teams and product managers
Ability to troubleshoot complex systems, think critically and propose scalable solutions
Comfortable working in agile environments and participating in sprint planning, retrospectives and stand-ups
Proven track record shipping cross-functional projects; excellent written/verbal communications
Security-first mindset with a focus on embedding governance and compliance into infrastructure
Familiarity with cloud security best practices, identity and access management, and secrets management
Proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages

Nice To Haves

Experience in a large news/media organization and modern data platforms like Snowflake and DBT a plus

Responsibilities

Drive security and governance efforts across AWS and GCP by managing accounts, projects, and org-level policies.
Define guardrails and patterns for data platform operations, aligning access models, design, and secure integrations with enterprise security goals.
Contribute to strategies that surface misconfigurations, misuse, and access risks across cloud environments.
Support our enterprise web infrastructure, including DNS configuration, CDN management, and website deployment and troubleshooting.
Help implement secure access management practices across cloud and data platforms, with a focus on systems like GitLab, AWS, and Snowflake.
Support security goals through secret rotation and centralized logging across environments.
Shape our observability strategy so teams get reliable signals for performance, cost, and security.
Support GitLab management, including CI/CD workflows, repo structure, and security architecture.
Develop scripts and automations in Python and Bash to support day-to-day operations.
Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloudformation, etc) to provision and maintain our infrastructure components.
Coordinate with the Data Governance team to facilitate audits and support security-related data practices.
Drive security improvements across our key platforms to meet enterprise compliance goals.
Help shape disaster recovery and continuity practices to improve infrastructure resilience.