Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

About Your Role
Dotdash Meredith serves trillions of web requests a month. The Digital Operations team makes sure that can happen quickly and reliably. As a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer, it will be up to you to develop, monitor, and tune the platform necessary to keep some of the largest and most popular informational websites in the world running. The heart of the platform is powered by a multi-provider and multi-region Kubernetes environment we are excited to continue to evolve.
About Your Contributions

• Work collaboratively with other bright team members across many different departments to deploy and support a vast array of open source solutions.
• Provide expert advice and brilliant ideas for frequent infrastructure design decisions.
• Manage and tune cloud-hosted Linux clusters and applications, enhance security, and engineer monitoring solutions to ensure many 9's of uptime and lightning fast performance.
• Craft beautiful, simple, and rock solid Unix systems that keep your nights and weekends free from work and your work hours free to engage in the interesting and fun stuff.

About You

• BS in Computer Science (or relevant experience/Github history)
• Sharp and meticulous Unix admin with deep experience or passion for internet dev and web hosting
• Strong skills with container orchestrators such as Kubernetes
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
• Advanced cloud engineering capabilities on AWS or GCP
• Queue management skills (Kafka is preferred)
• Monitoring experience (eg. Sensu, Prometheus) and the ability to troubleshoot application and network issues.
• Familiarity with interpreted or compiled languages and hosting in production (e.g. JVM tuning)
• Must be available to participate in on-call rotation and some off-hours work.

Dotdash Meredith is the largest digital and print publisher in America. From mobile to magazines, nearly 200 million people trust us to help them make decisions, take action, and find inspiration. Dotdash Meredith's over 40 iconic brands include PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Food & Wine, The Spruce, Allrecipes, Byrdie, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living.
Dotdash Meredith embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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