Infrastructure Engineer
New York, NY

Job Description

Job Description

The Infrastructure Engineer will be part of the infrastructure engineering & operations team that designs, engineers, implements, and maintains The New York Times Global Terrestrial and Cloud Infrastructure.

The individual in this position will bring expertise to continually improve the NYT IT infrastructure design, to engineer new and innovative solutions that address continually evolving needs and provide a secure and highly available computing platform. In addition, s/he will configure and maintain existing infrastructure components, implement upgrades, utilize management tools to monitor & report on the reliability of the environment.

Responsibilities will include:

* Independently research and provide both business and technical solutions based on and related to customer needs and specifications and deploy them into our production infrastructure.


* Monitor, test, analyze and evaluate the existing infrastructure environment and optimize it based on resiliency, technological advancements and cost


* Design and implementation of automation platforms


* Evaluate new technologies and create alpha/beta releases, and determine viability and suitability of existing technologies


* Produce documentation of use cases, business and technical solutions, and overall technology concepts-and write reference architecture papers to explain how expedient products can be used to solve specific business challenges


* Present to and solicit feedback from application, development and operations teams


* Ability to influence stakeholders about adopting new technology, solution improvements, and updates to existing technology


* Be part of an on-call rotation to monitor, analyze and resolve critical infrastructure issues and incidents, including on an emergency basis


* Occasional travel in support of implementations & operation is required.



The Infrastructure Engineer will need to have the following skills:

* 5-7 years of progressive professional experience in IT


* Strong experience of Linux and Windows Operating Systems


* Strong understanding of Active Directory topologies and how sites interconnect


* Strong understanding of Cloud based deployments on AWS and GCP Cloud Platforms


* Experience working with Identity federation, MFA, SAML and SSO


* Experience building and maintaining Syslog, DNS, Monitoring Services


* DevOps experience with Automation (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Saltstack) and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Racher, etc)


* Coding/scripting experience in Python or PowerShell


* Good communication skills and must be able to work collaboratively with clients and other technical colleagues



This individual must thrive in a highly dynamic environment, take accountability for individual results, be hungry to learn and enjoy pushing the limits of his/her comfort zone, while working in a team environment.

Benefits and Perks:

* Make an impact by supporting our original, independent and deeply reported journalism.


* We provide competitive health, dental, vision and life insurance for employees and their families


* We support responsible retirement planning with a generous 401(k) company match.


* We offer a competitive parental leave.


* We are committed to career development and ongoing learning, and provide employees $8,000 annually for tuition reimbursement.


* We have frequent panel discussions and talks by a wide variety of newsmakers and industry leaders.


* Join a community committed to the richness of diversity, experiences and talents in the world we cover, supported by a variety of employee resource groups.



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The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.