Senior DevOps Engineer
About The Position
TED creates, produces and distributes audio and video media (most famously TED Talks) to millions of people around the world. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring TED’s technology team has the tools and processes in place to maximize developer productivity and reduce friction. You will help developers deploy and monitor software products, as well as configure and manage shared infrastructure-level products. You will develop and implement state-of-the-art CI/CD systems. You will work directly with software engineers on the Technology team, technical points of contact throughout the company and key vendors.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional experience in DevOps and/or software engineering
- Oriented towards service and responsiveness to incidents and blockers as they arise
- At least 3 years experience with core AWS services (Unix, EC2, S3, RDS)
- High proficiency working in remote shell-based environments
- At least 3 years of experience with cloud database administration and maintenance (MySQL)
- Experience with continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline construction and management
- Experience installing and maintaining Linux physical machines, virtual machines, and Docker images (Ubuntu, CentOS, and/or Alpine)
- Production experience with one or more container orchestration systems (Docker Swarm, ECS, Kubernetes)
- Experience developing, maintaining and executing runbook procedures to ensure process consistency
- Familiarity with using a CDN to enhance website performance and reduce costs
- An insatiable curiosity for technology, software, and quality
- Must be a self-starter who will stop at nothing to clear blockers and ship products
- Must hold yourself to the highest standards for precision work, including the use of retrospectives and blameless postmortems to facilitate continuous improvement
- Must be a ferocious debugger who is unfazed by complex systems mixes of SaaS and in-house software, and emerging technologies
- Values cross-functional collaboration
- Values a diverse workplace
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Ruby on Rails and Node.js environments preferred
Responsibilities
- Ensure 24x7x365 service availability for deployed applications, including periodic on-call responsibilities
- Ensure newly-developed systems are designed to meet performance, security, and availability requirements
- Define company direction for production software deployments
- Work with software developers to maintain build system and toolchain
- Be the subject matter expert for infrastructure-level technologies (e.g. DNS, CDN, Linux, MySQL, AWS, Docker)
- Help technical points of contact across the company integrate 3rd party or agency-developed applications
- Experiment with new technologies and share discoveries with the team
- Foster growth and support other engineers through constructive, collaborative code reviews
- Clearly communicate technical constraints and opportunities with stakeholders
- Willingness to contribute however possible to ensure overall effectiveness of position
- Other duties and special projects as may be assigned from time to time
- Travel: Upon request / as needed
Benefits
- Full health benefits (medical, dental, vision) 100% paid by TED for employees
- Paid family leave
- Work-life balance encouraged (TED offers a flexible, unlimited PTO policy and 1-week winter break plus you're eligible for additional paid time off)
- Free OneMedical and SpringHealth membership for you and your dependents to address physical and mental well-being
- 401k with match
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
51-100 employees
