Lead DevOps Engineer

U.S. News & World Report is looking for a full-time Lead DevOps Engineer to manage a team of engineers to help improve the reliability, security, usability, maintainability and performance of our cloud infrastructure.You will be managing all aspects of our production applications, development environments and the CICD implementation.About US News:For nearly 90 years, U.S. News & World Report has built a strong and profitable business by providing research and ratings that help individuals and families make important life decisions. While the platform has evolved, what hasn’t changed is our commitment to providing our readers with the highest quality products.We have a diverse environment, with Linux, macOS X, and Windows machines living side-by-side. The majority of our development effort involves building & maintaining web applications on Python & Java. The DevOps team works almost exclusively within cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in conjunction with other software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms.Our applications support just about every aspect of company operations, including content management for the usnews.com website, data ranking products such as Best Colleges/Grad schools and Best Hospitals, and other business applications.We offer a casual, flexible, hybrid work environment. Our offices in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of devops engineers using scrum best practices and clearly communicating deliverables to upper management
• Oversee all cloud resources needed by the company including their security, compliance, monitoring, utilization and performance
• Improve site performance at the origin & CDN level
• Respond to production issues 24x7 on call rotation
• Control expenditures of technologies used
• Support the development lifecycle and deployment of multiple technology teams in the company
• Transform Deliverables into actionable items for the devops team and prioritize them

• At least 3 years leading a team of DevOps engineers
• At least 8 years working in a development, operations, or similar support role
• At least 4 years of experience working with Linux based systems (e.g. Debian, CentOS, RHEL)
• At least 3 years maintaining public cloud production-ready workloads (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)
• At least 3 years designing and implementing cloud migrations (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)
• At least 3 years of experience working with a programming language (Python, Java, Javascript/Node.js, Ruby)

• Cloud Professional certification (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)
• Agile methodology experience
• Infrastructure as code (e.g. CloudFormation, Terraform)
• CI and orchestration systems (e.g. Jenkins)
• Containerization & Orchestration experience (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Configuration Management Experience (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Docker)
• Strong oral and written communications skills