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DevOps Engineer and Administrator for Content Production

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Washington, DC, USA
Full-time

The DevOps Engineer and Administrator for Content Production is primarily responsible for managing, monitoring, and automating deployment and system operations of a high-availability server infrastructure which facilitates critical content production in a 24/7 newsroom.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Monitoring and administrating the Content Production, Disaster Recovery, and Lab Environments
  • Following ITIL Procedures including Change Management to deploy and maintain server environments
  • Communicating with stakeholders to organize and schedule non-disruptive deployments
  • Designing, developing, and managing deployments to all applicable server environments, including those in the cloud
  • Spearheading projects to streamline and improve deployment and migration of hosting to the cloud
  • The DevOps Engineer and Administrator for Content Production works closely with the in-house development team to create and maintain a build and deployment pipeline to deploy critical features quickly and easily to content production staff. They also design, deploy, and manage a systems infrastructure within the datacenter or in the cloud to enable high-availability and geo-distributed content production systems for a newsroom that never sleeps.
Skills/Experience: 
  •  Creativity, initiative, and an unparalleled attention to detail
  •  Love for innovation and emerging tools mixed with real-world pragmatism as to their use
  •  A drive to automate, automate, automate
  •  Relaxed, friendly attitude even when things are going very wrong

Qualifications

  •  4 years of relevant work experience
  •  Experience automating deployment processes and an insatiable desire to do so
  •  Experience troubleshooting production systems and monitoring server performance
  •  Comfortable working in a mixed OS environment
  •  Fluency in Linux system administration (preferably in Debian/Ubuntu).
  •  Fluency in Linux scripting and Windows scripting: shell scripting and PowerShell
  •  Fluency in administering NGINX and Windows web servers
  •  Experience with Build Servers and Continuous Integration
    •  Bamboo, TeamCity, Jenkins
  •  Comfortable with firewalls and other networking technology
  •  Takes pride in producing and maintaining well-written documentation
  •  Solid track record of deploying and automating self-scaling redundant infrastructure.

It would be great if you...

  •  Aren’t afraid to write some code and are ready to show off your advanced scripting/programming chops.
  •  Have experience with Configuration Systems such as Chef or Puppet
  •  Bring strong “cloud-computing” experience
  •  Have worked with document databases in the past
  •  Have experience with managing and deploying containers with Docker or similar technologies
Compensation/Benefits: 
  • We are a Linux and Mac-friendly group, if that’s your kind of thing.
  • We are diverse, lifelong learners.
  • We strongly believe in and follow a culture that is open, transparent, inclusive, and collaborative.

NPR offers a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package including health and wellness benefits, retirement, and work/life balance programs, as well as opportunities for career growth and development.

  • We are a friendly bunch and expect the same from you, too.

Organization Info

National Public Radio, Inc.

Overview
Headquarters: 
Washington, DC, United States
Founded: 
1971
About Us
Mission: 

NPR's mission is to work in partnership with member stations to create a more informed public-one challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of events, ideas and cultures. To accomplish our mission, NPR produces, acquires and distributes programming that meets the highest standards of public service in journalism and cultural expression. Our vision is to serve the public as the leading provider of high quality news, information and cultural programming worldwide.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Jan 4 2019
Active Until: 
Feb 5 2019
Hiring Organization: 
National Public Radio, Inc.
industry: 
Nonprofit