A DevOps Engineer works on a cross-discipline team to build products, services, or tools to support the NPR Digital Network.
They should have good working knowledge of Linux or Unix server administration, experience with several scripting languages, and a working knowledge of common open source automation and orchestration tools and technologies (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins, Github, Zabbix, etc). This person should also have experience with cloud based technologies, tools and services (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, etc).
They produce solid, documented and high-quality devops related code that adheres to our standards and best practices. While trusted to design and deliver upon more simple technical designs, they may still require direction for more complicated projects and tasks. They are receptive to feedback and also begin to propose improvements to management and other members of the team.
Approach
- creates & grasps simple designs that are right for the problem
- estimates own work accurately
- occasionally breaks down large problems into smaller chunks
- occasionally understands how own work fits into larger system
- occasionally identifies cross-system dependencies/conflicts
- occasionally considers future plans when planning/designing work
Implementation
- adheres to divisional and departmental administrative policies and processes
- adheres to standards and best practices
- adheres to process
- follows along & helps to troubleshoot critical issues
- becomes highly familiar with, perhaps at the expert level, in at least one product stack
- produces high quality work
- sometimes works on systems outside of own area of expertise
Communication
- effectively communicates to a technical & non-technical audience
- documents their work
Collaboration
- is receptive to feedback from peers and managers, and incorporates feedback to learn and improve
- trusted by peers
- provides constructive feedback to peers and managers
- occasionally leads simple projects
- mentors those more junior
Day to day activities
- Participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum activities (e.g. grooming, 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 and resolve issues identified by monitoring platforms.
- Proactively react to and resolve service desk related tickets as they arise.
- Provide constructive criticism 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.
- May be required to travel to remote datacenter as needed.
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. NPR is an Equal Opportunity Employer.