Cloud Automation Engineer

Hearst Technology Services is seeking a Cloud Automation Engineer. As a Cloud Automation Engineer you will work collaboratively within the technology engineering team to drive the way we deploy, provision, verify and monitor systems, applications, and services. In addition to hands-on systems engineering, you will work with all technology stakeholders to help solve problems, define & build automation processes, and shape the development culture. You will assist in the maintenance and ongoing improvement of continuous integration tools, environment provisioning through Infrastructure as Code and development workflows. You will help ensure that we have appropriate levels of monitoring and alerting set up for all our applications across a mix of public cloud, private cloud and on-prem systems. You will assist in the identification of commoditized and common operational tasks that can be automated and work to help bring those into workflows and processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement automation for common operational tasks
• Build and maintain Terraform modules & Sentinel policies
• Help the development team with deployment strategy and capacity planning across development, QA, staging and production environments
• Work with the development team to deploy and manage tools that support SDLC automation, configuration management and release management
• Build and maintain systems that will monitor all aspects of the application and the infrastructure

Qualifications

• 3+ Years of experience in Computer Science, DevOps, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent degree
• Must be very comfortable working and communicating with both developers and system administrators
• Strong working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code concepts

• Enjoy learning and applying new technologies and enabling other teams to move faster
• Willing and able to communicate automative concepts and processes to stakeholders
• Able to deliver work incrementally to get feedback and iterate over solutions

Required Skills

• Proficiency in an object-oriented programming language such as Go, Python or Ruby in addition to PowerShell, YAML and JSON
• Proficiency with at least one configuration management solution (Chef, Puppet, Ansible etc)
• Experience working with Terraform and/or Terraform Cloud
• Experience working with REST APIs and interacting with data
• Experience working with at least one of the large cloud providers: AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of infrastructure automation solutions

Desired Skills

• Experience writing HCL for TF modules, Sentinel Policies, designing IaC environments using Terraform
• Ability to define, build and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Github Actions
• Experience working with PowerBI (ETL, reporting, UI)
• Understanding of deployment strategies; Canary, Blue-Green, Rolling etc
• Experience with automated testing solutions for unit testing, integration testing and system testing
• Experience managing a Chef configuration management environment and updating cookbooks/recipes
• Understanding and experience operating in an agile development environment
• Ability to conceptualize, design & deliver whole solutions
• Knowledge of administrative best practices for application servers, database servers and 3rd party appliances
• Understanding of strategies for providing high availability and security
• Working familiarity with containerization, including orchestration
• Experience developing with database systems, NoSQL preferred (ideally cloud managed solutions)
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills (both technical and non-technical)
• Excellent problem-solving and creative thinking skills
• Success in a remote work environment
• Optional certifications are a plus: Terraform Associate Certification, Microsoft Azure/AWS Solutions Architect or Microsoft Azure/AWS DevOps Solutions

In accordance with applicable law, Hearst is required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role if hired in California. The reasonable estimate, if hired in California, is $110,000-$135,000. Please note this information is specific to those hired in California. If this role is open to candidates outside of California, the salary range would be aligned to that specific location. A final decision on the successful candidate's starting salary will be based on a number of permissible, non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to skills and experience, training, certifications, and education. Hearst provides a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, 401(k), paid holidays and paid time off, employee assistance programs, and more.

In accordance with applicable law, Hearst is required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role if hired in Colorado. The reasonable estimate, if hired in Colorado, is $110,000-$135,000. Please note this information is specific to those hired in Colorado. If this role is open to candidates outside of Colorado, the salary range would be aligned to that specific location. A final decision on the successful candidate's starting salary will be based on a number of permissible, non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to skills and experience, training, certifications, and education. Hearst provides a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, 401(k), paid holidays and paid time off, employee assistance programs, and more.

In accordance with applicable law, Hearst is required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role if hired in New York City. The reasonable estimate, if hired in New York City, is $130,000-$160,000. Please note this information is specific to those hired in New York City. If this role is open to candidates outside of New York City, the salary range would be aligned to that specific location. A final decision on the successful candidate's starting salary will be based on a number of permissible, non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to skills and experience, training, certifications, and education. Hearst provides a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, 401(k), paid holidays and paid time off, employee assistance programs, and more.

In accordance with applicable law, Hearst is required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role if hired in Washington. The reasonable estimate, if hired in Washington, is $110,000-$135,000. Please note this information is specific to those hired in Washington. If this role is open to candidates outside of Washington, the salary range would be aligned to that specific location. A final decision on the successful candidate's starting salary will be based on a number of permissible, non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to skills and experience, training, certifications, and education. Hearst provides a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, 401(k), paid time off (including 10 paid holidays, 15 days paid vacation, three personal days, and seven days of paid sick time), employee assistance programs, and more.