Lead DevOps Engineer

Posted 17 Days Ago
Remote
1-3 Years Experience
AdTech • Consumer Web • Digital Media • eCommerce • Marketing Tech
Dotdash Meredith is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year
The Role
DevOps Software Developer responsible for improving CI/CD pipelines, automating testing, maintaining cloud infrastructure, and enhancing production reliability. Experience with AWS, Terraform, container technologies, scripting languages (Groovy, Python, NodeJS), Docker, Kubernetes, and various server applications.
Summary Generated by Built In

Remote- In-office Expectations: This position is fully remote with no in-office requirements, (might require coming into an office 1 or 2x a year)


As a DevOps Lead you will be part time manager and part time Individual Contributor.

As a manager you will help lead and mentor the team, and ensure that the team is working on the most important problems. Both responsibilities will be done in partnership with an Engineering Manager.

As an Individual Contributor you will be instrumental in increasing the quality and speed of code deployments and improving our CI/CD pipeline. You will work on automating code testing, facilitating continuous integration, and improving production reliability.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with engineering teams to improve and automate processes; manage, automate and standardize software releases and maintain production systems. This person must have the ability to deliver clear, succinct, impactful and professional communication.

Familiarity with container technologies, AWS, Terraform & Container orchestrators are critical requirements for success in this position.

About Your Contributions:

  • Work with Development teams to build, improve and maintain language agnostic cloud CI/CD pipelines as code.

  • Write and maintain unit and integration tests of CI/CD and infrastructure automation, codebases and systems.

  • Work with Development teams to build, and maintain cloud infrastructure code artifacts.

  • Iterate on cloud infrastructure to automate infrastructure deployment and make infrastructure increasingly adaptive.

  • Work with Development teams to better leverage container infrastructure and build cloud-native systems.

  • Work with QA and Development teams to build out tools for automated release verification, testing and sign-off process.

  • Maintain and ensure data and environment consistency including data replication between production and lower environments.

  • Design & Implement logging, tracing and monitoring solutions for containers, CI/CD systems automated processes with the aim of building effective, actionable dashboards.

  • Design & Implement cost engineering solutions to reduce idle infrastructure and avoidable cloud costs.

About You:

  • Experience with AWS Infrastructure Automation, IAM, CloudFormation Templates, Terraform, Ansible and Packer.

  • Experience in maintaining AWS infrastructure artifacts in accordance with Security & maintainability best practices.

  • Experience with Continuous Integration build, test and deploy tool chains and declarative pipelines.

  • Significant experience with 1 or more scripting languages (Groovy, Python, NodeJS)

  • Experience deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting applications in Docker containers and serverless code with governance experience in repository managers.

  • Experience with Container Orchestrator solutions like Kubernetes or ECS.

  • Experience with Linux, Apache, Nginx, Java Applications, NodeJS, PostgreSQL and MySQL.

  • Knowledge of and ability to write/edit the following scripting languages (Bash, Python) familiarity with regular expressions a plus.

  • Solid understanding of the packaging process and ability to tune and adapt build systems such as Maven, Gradle, NPM, Yarn, PNPM or SetupTools/PYPI, used by languages to package code.

  • Knowledge of Resiliency and disaster recovery of CI/CD Systems.

  • Experience with Service Discovery, configuration and secrets management tools such as Consul and Vault.

Top Skills

Groovy
Node.js
Python

What the Team is Saying

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The Company
Chicago, IL
846 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1996

What We Do

Dotdash Meredith's vibrant brands help over 100 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. Dotdash is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year alone, including Digiday's 2020 Publisher of the Year. Dotdash Meredith brands include Verywell, Investopedia, The Balance, The Spruce, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, Byrdie, Brides, People, Food & Wine, Shape, Entertainment Weekly, Travel & Leisure, Better Homes and Gardens, Southern Living, Health, InStyle, Parents, EatingWell, Magnolia Journal, MyDomaine, Lifewire, TripSavvy, Liquor.com, and TreeHugger.

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