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TED Conferences · 8 hours ago

Senior DevOps Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$155K/yr - $170K/yr

6+ years exp

TED Conferences is on a mission to discover and spread ideas that spark imagination and embrace possibility. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will ensure TED’s technology team has the tools and processes to maximize developer productivity and reduce friction, while also developing and implementing state-of-the-art CI/CD systems.

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Culture & Values

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Qualification

AWSCI/CDLinuxDockerMySQLRuby on RailsNode.jsContainer orchestrationCuriosity for technologyPrecision workDebuggingDiversity valuesCross-functional collaborationSelf-starter

Required

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

Preferred

Experience with Ruby on Rails and Node.js environments

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

Company

TED Conferences

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TED’s mission is to discover and champion the ideas that will shape tomorrow.

Founded in 1984

New York, New York, USA

51-200 employees

http://www.ted.com

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