About the Role

You will report to the Senior Manager of the Cloud Engineering Team. Your team will focus on creating tools and services that abstract underlying cloud infrastructure in AWS to make it easier for product engineering teams to develop and run their code.

We are looking for candidates who are passionate technologists and collaborative partners. This role is open to NYC based employees, and is hybrid (2 days a week in office).

Responsibilities: Contribute to the technical vision for the team Develop, operate, and collaborate on the evolution of a centralized, scalable container runtime environment built on Kubernetes Surface technical risks and partner with stakeholders to assess technical complexity and sustainability needs Work within the overlap of several areas of focus: observability, security, deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure and containerization Promote the use of modern automation around access management and Infrastructure-as-code Work with product engineering teams, helping them optimize applications for cloud infrastructure Document best practices, prescribed solutions, and production support playbooks Participate in on-call rotations for the tools we build, and provide expertise to users of our solutions Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world. This role reports to Evan Cowden Basic Qualifications: 3+ years of building and operating distributed systems Experience collaborating on large projects with significant impact 1+ years of Experience with AWS cloud tooling A high degree of interest in Linux containers and managed clustering solutions like AWS EKS/ECS/Fargate, and GKE Experience with Infrastructure-as-code concepts Preferred Qualifications: A passion for automating things An understanding of distributed systems architecture and experience with networking, load balancing, monitoring, and troubleshooting in a cloud environment A high degree of empathy for existing solutions and issues. The New York Times is modern in many ways but is also prone to having issues that a 165-year-old organization may have - including legacy systems. There are many things to improve A commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

This role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.

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