Lead DevOps Engineer

The Lead DevOps Engineer is skilled in and passionate about Linux, server, network and storage infrastructure as well as automation. Someone who learns fast and can figure things out independently—can show us a better way of managing, monitoring and continuously deploying complex systems to the web.

We run a highly reliable and scalable Linux-based private infrastructure. We are passionate users of open-source software and support its usage among our technology stack . Current application stack includes: Java, PHP and Node.js software talking to MySQL and ElasticSearch, as well as: various document databases and key/value stores.

This is a union represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with  NABET-CWA DMU. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum activities (e.g. planning, demos and retrospectives) as required.
• Contribute high-quality, documented devops related code in accordance with department standards, best practices and processes based on self- and team-assigned stories.
• Create infrastructure technical designs and incorporate feedback from others.
• Proactively react to, resolve and help assign issues identified by monitoring platforms.
• Proactively react to, resolve and help assign service desk related tickets as they arise.
• Provide consistent and substantive feedback of infrastructure designs and devops related code written by peers.
• Participate in and help support code deployments to production systems.
• Join the DevOps “on-call” rotation after approximately 3 months.
• Interview prospective employment candidates.
• Identify and respond appropriately to production problems.
• Work closely with others on the team to guide projects to completion.
• Assist in the training and onboarding of staff new to the team and/or project.
• Participate in divisional roadmap planning sessions and project proposals.
• Provide technical oversight and direction to multiple projects and product lines.
• Conduct and/or lead technology evaluations for internal and external departmental needs.
• Proactively identify and work to resolve team challenges and issues.
• Advocate for and seek to innovate team practices so that they are efficient and align with industry best practices.
• May be required to travel to remote datacenter as needed.

The above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities, duties and skills. Other duties may be assigned, and this job description can be modified at any time.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Must have 5 to 7 years relevant work experience.
• Proven ability to write clear, concise documentation.
• Fluency in migration projects and migrating older CI/CD pipelines to GitHub Actions
• Experience with content delivery networks such as Akamai and Limelight.
• Fluency in AWS EKS and ECS
• AWS Networking migration expert
• Fluency bash scripting, python, other languages are a plus.
• Fluency in administering Apache and/or Nginx web-servers.
• Extensive experience administering Linux in a virtualization environment.
• Database migration, administration, and troubleshooting experience 
• Modernizing from on-prem to cloud services
• Experience with clustered file system technologies such as Isilon, Gluster, etc.
• Experience with TCP/IP networking technologies (routing, switching, Cisco, Brocade, F5, etc).
• Fluency with cloud-based observability technologies 
• Excellent at deploying and scaling redundant infrastructure.
• Experience with document databases: Dynamo, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.
• Fluency working with a configuration management tool e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible.
• “Addiction” to building fault-tolerant, highly reliable systems.
• Cares greatly about automation and has little tolerance for repetitive manual work.
• Join the DevOps “on-call” rotation after approximately 3 months.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working with a version control system (SVN or Git preferred).
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog, Nagios, Zabbix, Cacti, etc.

WORK LOCATION

• Hybrid Permitted: This is a hybrid permitted role. Some aspects of this role include duties that are better performed at an NPR facility. The employee will be required to be onsite at the Washington, DC office at least 10 days a year. The employee must also reside in an NPR supported location based on the number of onsite days they choose.

JOB TYPE

• This is a full time, exempt position.

COMPENSATION

Salary Range: The U.S. based anticipated salary range for this opportunity is $151,043.82 - 158,690.42 plus benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum salaries NPR expects to provide for new hires for the position across all US locations.

Benefits: NPR offers access to comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents. Regular, full-time employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week are eligible to enroll in NPR’s benefits options. Benefits include access to health and wellness, paid time off, and financial well-being. Plan options include medical, dental, vision, life/ accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, short-term disability, and voluntary retirement savings to all eligible NPR employees. 

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