Description

U.S. News & World Report is a multifaceted digital media company dedicated to helping citizens, consumers, business leaders and policy officials make important decisions in their lives. We publish independent reporting, rankings, data journalism and advice that has earned the trust of our readers and users for 90 years. Our platforms on usnews.com include Education, Health, Money, Travel, Cars, News and 360 Reviews.
We reach more than 40 million people monthly during moments when they are most in need of expert advice and motivated to act on that advice directly on our platforms. Our signature franchises include our "Best" series of consumer guides on colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, diets, cars, financial services and more. These guides provide an easy-to-digest list for consumers to better understand and compare when making their decisions. We continue to publish annual guides of the authoritative Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings on our website and in print. And our U.S. News Live flagship conferences highlight important national conversations including Healthcare of Tomorrow and Healthiest Communities.
We believe in having a broad range of talent and backgrounds at U.S. News. We strive to maintain a welcoming workplace where everyone is given an opportunity to succeed and contribute to their fullest. Learn more about our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative.
Your role in helping us shape the future:
U.S. News empowers everyone to thrive. In this position you will have the opportunity to leverage your strengths and skills to 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.
U.S. News & World Report is looking for a full-time 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.
Are you up to the challenge?

• 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.
• The majority of our development effort involves building & maintaining web applications on Python, Node & Java.
• You should be able to onboard new applications to CICD and optimize our current pipelines
• You will work on infrastructure-as-code to manage cloud technologies as well as different SAAS providers. You will work with AWS, GCP, Akamai, New Relic and more.
• You will help configure and maintain Linux development environment with a configuration management tool and provide support to developer issues
• You will help to respond to some common incidents in our production environment

Position Requirements

You should definitely have:

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field required or equivalent work experience.
• Three year's experience working in a development, operations, or similar support role; experience including designing and maintaining public cloud production-ready workloads (AWS, GCP, Azure), Linux based systems (e.g. Debian, CentOS, RHEL) and a programming language (Python, Java, Javascript/Node.js, Ruby); and managing security specific services for either infrastructure or code.
• Experience working on a multi-person software development team with robust deployment tooling

It would be nice if you had:

• Architecture patterns of public global web-based applications and underlying technologies
• Infrastructure as code (e.g. CloudFormation, Terraform)
• CI and orchestration systems (e.g. Jenkins)
• Containerization & Orchestration experience (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Configuration Management Experience (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Docker)
• Strong oral and written communications skills
• Cloud or security certifications are a plus

What it's like to work with us:
Talent is our best asset!
We invest in people with passion and potential who understand U.S. News' dedication to our consumers.

• Entrepreneurial, mission-driven culture with core values of quality and integrity
• Focus on fostering personal and professional growth
• Competitive benefits including paid vacation time, medical, tuition reimbursement, and training
• Collaborative Work Environment ~ Fun, diverse, inclusive and ambitious co-workers

Other Job Info:

• These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this job. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees assigned to this job.
• ?U.S. News & World Report strongly encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated (including boosters).
• Preference for New York or Washington, DC based applicants to work a hybrid schedule in those office locations. Remote applicants will be considered.
• In New York City, the anticipated base salary for this position is $85,000 to $110,000 The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, interview performance, and if applicable, the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

Full-Time/Part-Time
Full-Time
Number of Openings
1
About the Organization
U.S. News & World Report is a publisher of news and information that empowers people to make better, more informed decisions about important issues affecting their lives.
EOE Statement
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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