Job Details

Job details

U.S. News & World Report is looking for a full-time Sr. DevOps Engineer to modernize, secure and administer our cloud infrastructure to help deliver dynamic, data-driven products for one of the globe's most trusted brands.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will develop a complete understanding of our web application platforms and play a key role in modernizing our stack. You will be part of a team responsible for all of the organization's code and production deployment pipelines, infrastructure, security, network and development environments.

We have a diverse environment, mostly Linux and macOS with some Windows. The majority of our development effort involves building & maintaining web applications on Python, Node & Java. The DevOps team works almost exclusively within cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in conjunction with other software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms.

Our applications support just about every aspect of company operations, including content management for the usnews.com website, data ranking products such as Best Colleges/Grad schools and Best Hospitals, and other business applications.

We offer a casual, flexible, hybrid-remote work environment. Our offices are located in the Westover neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Your role in helping us shape the future:

1. Assisting with all cloud resources needed by the company including their security, compliance, monitoring, utilization and performance
2. Improve site performance at the origin & CDN level
3. Respond to production issues 24x7 on call rotation
4. Control expenditures of technologies used
5. Support the development lifecycle and deployment of multiple technology teams in the company
6. Transform Deliverables into actionable items for the devops team and prioritize them
7. Work on reliability, security, cost optimizations or performance improvements for our infrastructure through terraform, cloudformation, or configuration of different SAAS tools yet to be onboarded to infrastructure as code
8. Actively help developers with architecture design, development issues or issues in their production environment or pipelines