Job details
U.S. News & World Report is looking for a full-time Sr. DevOps Engineer to modernize, secure and administer our cloud infrastructure to help deliver dynamic, data-driven products for one of the globe’s most trusted brands.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will develop a complete understanding of our web application platforms and play a key role in modernizing our stack. You will be part of a team responsible for all of the organization’s code and production deployment pipelines, infrastructure, security, network and development environments.
We have a diverse environment, mostly Linux and macOS with some Windows. The majority of our development effort involves building & maintaining web applications on Python, Node & Java. The DevOps team works almost exclusively within cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in conjunction with other software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms.
Our applications support just about every aspect of company operations, including content management for the usnews.com website, data ranking products such as Best Colleges/Grad schools and Best Hospitals, and other business applications.
We offer a casual, flexible, hybrid-remote work environment. Our offices are located in the Westover neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Your role in helping us shape the future:
- Assisting with all cloud resources needed by the company including their security, compliance, monitoring, utilization and performance
- Improve site performance at the origin & CDN level
- Respond to production issues 24x7 on call rotation
- Control expenditures of technologies used
- Support the development lifecycle and deployment of multiple technology teams in the company
- Transform Deliverables into actionable items for the devops team and prioritize them
- Work on reliability, security, cost optimizations or performance improvements for our infrastructure through terraform, cloudformation, or configuration of different SAAS tools yet to be onboarded to infrastructure as code
- Actively help developers with architecture design, development issues or issues in their production environment or pipelines