DevOps Manager

The DevOps Manager will be responsible for designing, building, and supporting the processes and systems needed to drive our continuous integration environment as well as the systems to deploy, manage, and monitor our production workloads. We are looking for a DevOps Manager with advanced technical and implementation experience with applications hosted in the Kubernetes and Serverless architecture managed via infrastructure as code (IaC). This role will also be responsible for coordinating the work and communicating all changes in these environments to the broader group. It is a role that requires a high level of skill, understanding, and implementing topics such as security, availability, and scalability and managing and mentoring other team members in service of that goal.

Location: Anywhere commutable to a Hearst TV station or Hearst Corp location such as DC, Charlotte, NYC, SF, LA.

Responsibilities

On a daily basis, the responsibility of this role will be to monitor the current software and infrastructure deployed across all environments, optimize those stacks and help support new features and requirements. A mature and modern infrastructure will need to be supported across various cloud provider infrastructures. In addition, you would work with the team to set the DevOps roadmap and participate in the sprint planning. Typical responsibilities will include

• Lead a team of devops engineers (onshore and offshore) to develop a broad portfolio of diverse technology projects on AWS and GCP cloud platforms
• Build and deploy DevOps automation tools
• Contribute to designing, deploying, and maintaining a full stack containerized microservices architecture
• Own the overall health, availability, performance, and capacity of the DevOps infrastructure, and improve the reliability of the services by writing code and building automation to prevent problem recurrence
• Deploy, operate, troubleshoot, and maintain containerized (Docker) microservices across orchestrated (Kubernetes) environments
• Lead projects and prioritization to meet the DevOps Engineering goals
• Participate in sprint and release planning, bug triage, and other pertinent meetings
• Executing and maintaining industry best practices for security, compliance, and auditing, including a continuous improvement cycle
• Working with monitoring and alerting tools and performing system log analysis using Datadog.
• Participate in on-call responsibilities, following defined procedures, owning and managing a runbook for each application, and maintaining system uptime to meet the SLAs
• Mentor other members of the team
• Help with recruiting and training new team members

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science (MS, Network Security Certification, or other relevant certification is a plus)
• 5-7 years of experience in DevOps within AWS or Google cloud architectures, services, and/or environments to include automating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using terraform
• 5-7 years of experience in software systems, programming, and infrastructure development and administration
• Strong experience in building and managing cohesive distributed teams
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL databases
• Experience Leading architecture for DevOps-focused Agile teams
• Overall Linux knowledge and CLI knowledge
• Strong background in programming in Bash and Python (Golang and NodeJS is a plus)
• Significant Kubernetes and Docker experience (Terraform and Helm is a plus)
• CI/CD build system experience (Travis, CircleCI, Github Action)
• Strong experience working with alerting and monitoring systems (Datadog and Pagerduty a plus)
• Advanced certification in AWS or Google Cloud is a plus
• Advanced Cloud Security or DevSecOps experience is a plus

Additional Requirements

As part of its continued efforts to maintain a safe workplace for employees, Hearst Television requires that all newly hired employees be fully vaccinated (as defined by the CDC) against the coronavirus by the first day of employment as a condition of employment, to the extent permitted by applicable law. HTV will consider requests for reasonable accommodations on an individual basis in accordance with applicable legal requirements.