DevOps Engineer
New York, NY

Job Description

Condé Nast is a premier media company renowned for producing the highest quality content for the world's most influential audiences. Attracting more than 100 million consumers across its industry-leading print, digital and video brands, the company's portfolio includes some of the most iconic titles in media: Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Brides, Self, GQ, GQ Style, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Allure, Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Wired, W, Golf Digest, Golf World, Teen Vogue, Ars Technica, The Scene, Pitchfork and Backchannel. The company's newest division, Condé Nast Entertainment, was launched in 2011 to develop film, television and premium digital video programming. For more information, please visit condenast.com and follow @CondeNast and @CondeNastCareer for Twitter and @condenastcareers for Instagram

Job Description

As a DevOps Engineer you will help us grow, automate, and monitor all aspects of our brand websites and supporting systems. This will require a combination of software development, networking, and systems engineering expertise to identify and implement solutions to any problems. Communication and collaboration are key to delivering the best product possible for our users as well as a good sense of humor and enjoyment for technology in general. We don't wear just one hat here (we have a whole closet full of them) so be ready to immerse yourself into the team for whatever is asked of you. This is not a job to just deal with the issues of today, but help create and architect a vision of what an optimal system would look like in the future.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Work with development teams to architect and build out infrastructure to run their code in a scalable, efficient, and optimized fashion


* Systems modernization: Continuous improvements to legacy systems, migrating to newer platforms and runtimes.


* Set up monitoring for applications which will be used to analyze performance and other business metrics


* Develop internal ops tools and ensure that building and deployment of code can happen in a safe, continuous and fashion


* Respond to and resolve emergent service problems; build tools and automation to prevent problem recurrence


* Participation in 24/7 on-call rotation (be available by phone/email/chat in case something goes wrong)



What are we looking for?

* Experience with configuration management tools like Puppet / Chef / Ansible


* Good understanding of Linux based operating systems and how to administer them


* Shell scripting experience (bash, ruby, python)


* Ability to troubleshoot application and system issues all the way down the stack


* Someone who is constantly driving improvement into the way we do things every day


* A good sense of humor, high degree of ownership, and overall passion for technology



Tools we like:

* Puppet / Ansible


* Slack / Zoom


* Docker / Kubernetes


* Splunk / DataDog


* Node.js / Java / Go


* Apache / Nginx


* MySQL / MongoDB / Postgres


* Jenkins / Drone


* Varnish / Memcache / Redis


* Git / GitHub



What happens next?

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below and we will review your application as soon as possible. Please note that due to the high level of applications we receive, it is not always possible for us to respond to each applicant in person. Should your profile fit this open position we will contact you within approximately 4 weeks. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity workplace.

Duties and responsibilities may be adjusted based on years of experience.

Salary is also commensurate with experience.