Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer

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 and its Identity platform. You will report to the Associate Director, Infrastructure Services.

You will automate operational processes, continually improve the NYT IT infrastructure design to engineer solutions that address evolving needs and provide a secure and highly available computing platform. In addition, you will configure and maintain existing infrastructure components, implement upgrades, use management tools to monitor and report on the reliability of the environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build solutions to standardize and automate our virtualized and cloud-based platforms, configurations, and administration procedures.
• 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, and analyze the existing infrastructure environment and optimize it based on resiliency, technological advancements, and cost.
• Develop and deploy automation platforms.
• Evaluate new technologies and create alpha/beta releases, and determine the viability and suitability of existing technologies.
• Produce documentation of use cases, business and technical solutions, and overall technology concepts—and assist in writing 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.
• Help influence stakeholders about adopting new technology, solution improvements, and updates to existing technology.
• Occasionally travel in support of implementations and operations.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in IT
• 3+ years of experience with cloud-based deployments on AWS and GCP Cloud Platforms
• 3+ years of experience with Linux and Windows Operating Systems, and virtualization platforms
• Knowledge of DevOps tools such as Version Control (Git or similar), CI/CD Tools (Drone, Jenkins), Orchestration tools (Ansible, Puppet), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloudformation)
• Understanding of foundational enterprise technologies such as DNS, Syslog, LDAP, and monitoring tools such as Datadog & PRTG
• Coding/scripting experience in one or more languages ex. Python, PowerShell, Perl, or Bash

Preferred Qualifications:

• Recent relevant experience supporting IAM platforms such as Azure AD/Entra ID
• Experience with Single Sign-On (SSO) concepts and implementations

This role will require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.