Posted over 5 years ago

The New York Times is looking for a Manager for the Delivery Engineering and Infrastructure teamAbout the TeamThe primary goal of the Infrastructure Services and Delivery Engineering is to build and maintain tools that other developers and software engineers use in agile product development and delivery, such as monitoring, configuration management and deployment tools. Product engineering teams should be able to concentrate on new features, without worrying how these features are deployed from development into production.Role DescriptionAs part of the Delivery Engineering and Infrastructure Services team, your day to day job would include evaluating the current development practices, procedures and tooling, and evolving them to be more efficient. You will also be a part of a team responsible for building the tools that ensure that the various systems at The New York Times continue to operate in a reliable and efficient manner.ResponsibilitiesWork within various areas of focus (e.g. monitoring, secrets management, deployment pipeline, containerization, etc) and research, strategize, and propose solutions that meet requirements, reduces friction for product engineers, and consolidates existing solutions.Drive adoption and onboard teams to Infrastructure and Delivery Engineering tooling and solutions.Work closely with engineering teams to learn about needs, current process and to promote best practicesWork with multiple teams and help migrate legacy application stacks to cloud infrastructure and the  Manage multiple small teams with senior folks and also be a manager to managers in a couple of instancesRequired ExperienceManager with prior significant development experience and a strong software engineering backgroundA good understanding of various modern and legacy application architectureExperience with building and running systems that need to scale based on needsAn understanding of cloud based deployments on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.A passion towards automating things. We love repeatable processes and know that humans are prone to error. We’d like to automate deployments, monitoring releases and even brewing our coffee.An understanding of the 12 Factor App. It is one of our goals to move our systems in this direction.A high degree of interest in Linux containers and smart clustering solutions like Kubernetes/Mesos/fleet, etc.A bias towards helping people. Many teams will rely upon you for help to build their systems.A willingness and drive to build high performing teams that others can learn fromA high degree of empathy for existing solutions and issues. The New York Times is quite modern in many ways but is also prone to having issues that a 165 year old organization may have - including legacy systems and processes. There are many things to fix.Nice to HaveExperience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery techniques and toolingHaving been in a role helping product teams move faster by building developer toolingSome of the tech we useGo, Bash, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Packer, Docker, Kubernetes, Vault, Consul, Drone