Devops Engineer

About Us

About the Role

Our Infrastructure team is responsible for building internal tools and services to improve our product availability and our Engineering productivity. Engineers in this team are passionate about performance delivery and metrics. As an infrastructure engineer you will collaborate closely with multiple engineering teams to help develop and improve our internal tools and services. Youll be implementing new infrastructure using Terraform and help define our scaling alerting and monitoring.

We have lots of fresh ideas and are excited for you to join us to help us build the best sports media app in the world.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features based on specifications ensuring to always optimize for scalability and performance.
• Contribute to and engage in our scrum process through sprint planning review retrospectives and daily standups.
• Understand the technical requirements of new requests and work with other engineers to ensure the end result matches expectations of building a world class product.
• Fix live bugs and triage the issue with company peers so the root cause can be identified. We can patch live issues but we always go back to fix the bigger problem.
• Validate the quality of your work through manual and automated testing. We believe engineers own their code throughout the whole lifecycle of development until its live giving them visibility and ownership over their work.

Requirements

• 2 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Knowledge of Terraform and CI/CD tools.
• Knowledge of AWS products:
  • Lambda
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • ECS
  • Cloudfront
  • S3
  • IAM
• Experience working with high availability websites.
• Experience with Cloud CDN tools like Fastly and Cloudflare.

The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our UK benefits packages offer benefits and perks competitive to the local market.

The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race religion color national origin ancestry physical and/or mental disability medical condition genetic information marital status sex gender gender identity gender expression transgender status age sexual orientation military or veteran status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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