Devops Engineer

The Athletic; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Paid Sick Leave

Paid Parental Leave

401 (k)

Short & Long Term Disability

Free Subscription

Competitive Health Care

HSA & FSA

Commuter Benefits

Job summary

The Athletic is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to help build and improve internal tools and services in a fast-growing sports media app environment. You will implement new infrastructure using Terraform, define scaling, alerting and monitoring, and work across multiple engineering teams to deliver scalable features.

Join a team passionate about performance, delivery and metrics, contributing to a world-class product with strong testing practices and active Scrum processes.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Experience with high availability websites
• Knowledge of Terraform and CI/CD tools
• Knowledge of AWS products: Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, CloudFront, S3, IAM

Responsibilities

• Build and improve internal tools and services to boost product availability and engineering productivity.
• Collaborate closely with multiple engineering teams to develop and improve internal tools and services.
• Implement new infrastructure using Terraform and help define scaling, alerting and monitoring.
• Develop features with a focus on scalability and performance.
• Engage in Scrum ceremonies: planning, reviews, retrospectives and daily standups.
• Ensure end results match expectations of building a world class product.
• Fix live bugs and triage issues, then address root causes to prevent recurrence.
• Own code through lifecycle with both manual and automated testing.

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tools

AWS (Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, CloudFront, S3, IAM)

Fastly

Cloudflare

Job description

• Our Infrastructure team is responsible for building internal tools and services to improve our product availability and our Engineering productivity
• Engineers in this team are passionate about performance, delivery and metrics
• As an infrastructure engineer, you will collaborate closely with multiple engineering teams to help develop and improve our internal tools and services
• You’ll be implementing new infrastructure using Terraform and help define our scaling, alerting and monitoring
• We have lots of fresh ideas and are excited for you to join us to help us build the best sports media app in the world
• Develop new features based on specifications, ensuring to always optimize for scalability and performance
• Contribute to and engage in our scrum process through sprint planning, review, retrospectives and daily standups
• Understand the technical requirements of new requests and work with other engineers to ensure the end result matches expectations of building a world class product
• Fix live bugs and triage the issue with company peers so the root cause can be identified. We can patch live issues but we always go back to fix the bigger problem
• Validate the quality of your work through manual and automated testing. We believe engineers own their code throughout the whole lifecycle of development until it’s live, giving them visibility and ownership over their work

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Paid Sick Leave
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401 (k)
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Free Subscription
• Competitive Health Care
• HSA & FSA
• Commuter Benefits

2+ years of relevant engineering experienceExperience working with high availability websitesExperience with Cloud CDN tools like Fastly and CloudflareKnowledge of Terraform and CI/CD toolsKnowledge of AWS products: Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, Cloudfront, S3, IAM