Senior DevOps Engineer

TED is on a mission to discover and spread ideas that spark imagination, embrace possibility and catalyze impact. Our organization is devoted to curiosity, reason, wonder and the pursuit of knowledge — without an agenda. We welcome people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world and connection with others, and we invite everyone to engage with ideas and activate them in your community.

POSITION OVERVIEW

TED creates, produces and distributes audio and video media (most famously TED Talks) to millions of people around the world. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring TED’s technology team has the tools and processes in place to maximize developer productivity and reduce friction.  You will help developers deploy and monitor software products, as well as configure and manage shared infrastructure-level products.  You will develop and implement state-of-the-art CI/CD systems.  You will work directly with software engineers on the Technology team, technical points of contact throughout the company and key vendors.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure 24x7x365 service availability for deployed applications, including periodic on-call responsibilities

• Ensure newly-developed systems are designed to meet performance, security, and availability requirements

• Define company direction for production software deployments

• Work with software developers to maintain build system and toolchain

• Be the subject matter expert for infrastructure-level technologies (e.g. DNS, CDN, Linux, MySQL, AWS, Docker)

• Help technical points of contact across the company integrate 3rd party or agency-developed applications

• Experiment with new technologies and share discoveries with the team

• Foster growth and support other engineers through constructive, collaborative code reviews

• Clearly communicate technical constraints and opportunities with stakeholders

• Willingness to contribute however possible to ensure overall effectiveness of position

• Other duties and special projects as may be assigned from time to time

• Travel: Upon request / as needed

• 6+ years of professional experience in DevOps and/or software engineering 

• Oriented towards service and responsiveness to incidents and blockers as they arise

• At least 3 years experience with core AWS services (Unix, EC2, S3, RDS)

• High proficiency working in remote shell-based environments

• At least 3 years of experience with cloud database administration and maintenance (MySQL)

• Experience with continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline construction and management

• Experience with Ruby on Rails and Node.js environments preferred

• Experience installing and maintaining Linux physical machines, virtual machines, and Docker images (Ubuntu, CentOS, and/or Alpine)

• Production experience with one or more container orchestration systems (Docker Swarm, ECS, Kubernetes)

• Experience developing, maintaining and executing runbook procedures to ensure process consistency

• Familiarity with using a CDN to enhance website performance and reduce costs

• An insatiable curiosity for technology, software, and quality

• Must be a self-starter who will stop at nothing to clear blockers and ship products

• Must hold yourself to the highest standards for precision work, including the use of retrospectives and blameless postmortems to facilitate continuous improvement

• Must be a ferocious debugger who is unfazed by complex systems mixes of SaaS and in-house software, and emerging technologies

• Values cross-functional collaboration

• Values a diverse workplace

SALARY: 155,000.00 - 169,600.00

BENEFITS

• Full health benefits (medical, dental, vision) 100% paid by TED for employees

• Paid family leave

• Work-life balance encouraged (TED offers a flexible, unlimited PTO policy and 1-week winter break plus you're eligible for additional paid time off)

• Free OneMedical and SpringHealth membership for you and your dependents to address physical and mental well-being 

• 401k with match

TED Conferences LLC is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We invite all qualified candidates to apply online with their resume and cover letter.